List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions
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Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit 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. All members of the Jesuits, including many notable enough for Wiki entries but not listed below, are in fact alumni of Jesuit educational institutions.

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  • Abdul Kalam
    Abdul Kalam
    Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam usually referred to as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is a renowned aerospace engineer, professor , and first Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram , who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007...

    ,Former president of India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    , St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli
    St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli
    St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli is a Jesuit-founded college in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.-The College Coat Of Arms:“The college blazon is not the heirloom of an ancient and noble family handed down with pride of name and glorious memories of the past. It is only distinctive badge...

    , Tamilnadu, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

  • Tony Abbott
    Tony Abbott
    Anthony John "Tony" Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election...

    , Australian Minister for Health, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

  • Robert Abplanalp
    Robert Abplanalp
    Robert Henry Abplanalp was an American inventor who invented the aerosol valve, the founder of Precision Valve Corporation and a political activist....

    , Inventor of aerosol valve and Founder of Precision Valve Corporation, Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

  • Edward Fenech Adami, former president of Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

    ; educated at St Aloysius' College
  • Héctor Aguilar Camín
    Héctor Aguilar Camín
    Héctor Aguilar Camín is a Mexican writer, journalist and historian.Aguilar Camín graduated from the Ibero-American University with a bachelor's degree in information sciences and techniques and received a doctorate's degree in history from El Colegio de México...

     - Mexican writer, journalist and historian, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Vijay Amrithraj (Tennis)and his brother Anand Amrithraj (Tennis); educated at the Loyola College Chennai
  • José Antonio Aguirre, Basque
    Basque Country (autonomous community)
    The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....

     president; educated at the University of Deusto
    University of Deusto
    The University of Deusto is a Spanish Jesuit University, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, Spain.-History:The University of Deusto first opened in 1886, having been founded because of the Basque Country's desire to have its own university and the Society of Jesus's wish to move its School...

  • Carlos Alazraki
    Carlos Alazraki
    Carlos Alazraki Grossmann is a Mexican advertising executive.Alazraki is the founder, president, and CEO of Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency and the previous president of the Asociación Mexicana de Agencias de Publicidad...

    , President and CEO of the award-winning Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Alan Alda
    Alan Alda
    Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo , better known as Alan Alda, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H...

    , American movie actor and TV star; Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

    , USA
  • Iyad Allawi
    Iyad Allawi
    Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which...

    , Iraqi politician; attended Baghdad College
    Baghdad College
    Baghdad College is an elite high school for boys in Baghdad, Iraq. It is among the nation's most highly regarded preparatory schools, boasting several well-known alumni and countless Iraqi professionals and intellectuals now living throughout the world...

  • Robert Altman
    Robert Altman
    Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...

    , American film director, Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School is a private, Roman Catholic, Jesuit, preparatory school for boys located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on the Missouri-Kansas border along State Line Road....

  • Viswanathan Anand
    Viswanathan Anand
    V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....

    , Indian chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     grandmaster
    International Grandmaster
    The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

    ; attended Loyola College
    Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College is a Jesuit institution in Chennai, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates and offers degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and commerce. It is an autonomous institution affiliated with the University of Madras.-History:...

     in Chennai
    Chennai
    Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

  • Ivo Andric
    Ivo Andric
    Ivan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...

    , Yugoslavian author and Nobel laureate
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

    , Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, Bosnia
  • APO Hiking Society
    APO Hiking Society
    The Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society, later popularly known as Apo Hiking Society or, simply, Apo, was a Filipino musical group. The group had its fledgling beginnings in 1969 at the Ateneo de Manila high school, with thirteen members: Lito de Joya, Sonny Santiago, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito...

    , Filipino singing group, Ateneo High School
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Benigno Aquino, Jr.
    Benigno Aquino, Jr.
    Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. was a Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac. Aquino, together with Gerry Roxas and Jovito Salonga, formed the leadership of the opposition to the Marcos regime in the years leading to the imposition of martial law in the Philippines...

    , Philippine politician; studied at the Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Fr. Miguel Arranz ,S.J., Professor of Oriental Liturgy at Pontifical Orietnal Instute and St. Petersburg Othodox Theoological Academy, Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

      ,Pontifical Oriental Institute
    Pontifical Oriental Institute
    The Pontifical Oriental Institute is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy....

  • Guillermo Arriaga
    Guillermo Arriaga
    Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he authored Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of...

    , Mexican screenwriter (Amores Perros
    Amores perros
    Amores perros is a 2000 neorealist Mexican film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is the first movie in Iñárritu's trilogy of death, and was followed by 21 Grams and Babel. It is a triptych; an anthology film, sometimes referred to as the "Mexican Pulp Fiction," containing...

    ), Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

    , Mexico.
  • Mike Arroyo, Husband of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; studied at the Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Emilio Azcarraga Jean
    Emilio Azcárraga Jean
    Emilio Fernando Azcárraga Jean or Emilio Azcarraga III, is a Mexican businessman and the son of Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and his third wife, Nadine Jean a French citizen....

    , President and Owner of Televisa
    Televisa
    Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

     the most important media network in Latin America; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...


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  • John Boler - Chairman, President & CEO of Boler Co.(see Hendrickson International) educated at John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Jack Breen - Former CEO of Sherwin-Williams,educated at John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Claude Bachet, French Mathematician; pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy
    Jacques de Billy
    Jacques de Billy was a French Jesuit mathematician. Born in Compiègne, he subsequently entered the Society of Jesus. From 1629 to 1630, Billy taught mathematics at the Jesuit College at Pontà Mousson. He was still studying theology at this time. From 1631 to 1633, Billy taught mathematics at...

     at the Jesuit College in Rheims
  • Mohsen Badawi
    Mohsen Badawi
    Mohsen Badawi is an entrepreneur, political activist, and writer.-Biography:Mohsen Badawi went to the Jésuites school in Cairo and graduated from Cairo University he is the Chairman of Abdurrahman Badawi Center for Creativity since January 2008, the Chairman of Aracom Systems since 1984,...

    , Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer; educated at the Collège de la Sainte Famille
    Collège de la Sainte Famille
    The Collège de la Sainte Famille , مدرسة العائلة المقدسة often referred to as "Jésuites", is a private Jesuit French school for boys in the Faggala , Daher , and Heliopolis districts of Cairo, Egypt...

     in Cairo
    Cairo
    Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

    , Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

  • Fr. Eugene Balabin
    Eugene Balabin
    Eugene Petrovich Balabin also known as Evgeny or Evgenii was a Russian Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus. He was a prominent Russian Catholic of the 19th century.- Biography:...

     SJ, Russian Catholic priest, collaborator with Martynov
    Martynov
    Martynov , or Martynova is a common Russian last name and may refer to:*Aleksandr Nikolayevich Martynov , a Russian international football player*Alexander Samoylovich Martynov , a right-wing Russian Menshevik...

     and Gagarin, developer of Jesuit "Slavic" Library at Meudon
    Meudon
    Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It is located from the center of Paris.-Geography:...

    , attended seminary at Vals near Le-Puy-en-Velay,taught at College de la Sainte Famille
    Collège de la Sainte Famille
    The Collège de la Sainte Famille , مدرسة العائلة المقدسة often referred to as "Jésuites", is a private Jesuit French school for boys in the Faggala , Daher , and Heliopolis districts of Cairo, Egypt...

    , Cairo Egypt.
  • Jakob Balde
    Jakob Balde
    Jakob Balde , a German Latinist, was born at Ensisheim in Alsace.Driven from Alsace by the marauding bands of Count Mansfeld, he fled to Ingolstadt where he began to study law. A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the church, and in 1624 he entered the Society of Jesus...

    , German Latinist and poet; studied at the University of Ingolstadt
    University of Ingolstadt
    The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It consisted of five faculties: humanities, sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of which were contained in the Hoheschule...

  • José Celso Barbosa
    José Celso Barbosa
    Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico.Known within Puerto Rico's New Progressive Party as "The father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement", Barbosa was also the first Puerto Rican to be awarded an American medical degree.-Early...

    , medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader, as well as the first racially mixed resident to attend Puerto Rico's prestigious Jesuit Seminary
  • George Barna
    George Barna
    George Barna is the founder of The Barna Group, a market research firm specializing in studying the religious beliefs and behavior of Americans, and the intersection of faith and culture...

    , American political pollster; graduated summa cum laude from Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

  • Kevin Barry
    Kevin Barry
    Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an IRA operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers.Barry's death is considered a watershed moment in the Irish...

    , martyr of the Irish War of Independence, Belvedere College
    Belvedere College
    Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College....

  • John Barrymore
    John Barrymore
    John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

    , American Shakespearean actor; attended Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School is an American Jesuit college preparatory school for grades 9 through 12. It is the oldest all boys school in the United States, and the only Jesuit boarding school in the country...

  • Jyoti Basu
    Jyoti Basu
    Jyoti Basu was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian state. Basu was a member of the CPI Politburo from the time of the...

    , Communist politician from West Bengal, India; educated at St. Xavier's Collegiate School
    St. Xavier's Collegiate School
    St. Xavier's Collegiate School was established in 1860 in Kolkata, India by missionaries of the Society of Jesus. The school is named after St. Francis Xavier...

  • Elgin Baylor
    Elgin Baylor
    Elgin Gay Baylor is a retired Hall of Fame American basketball player and former NBA general manager who played 13 seasons as a forward for the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers/Los Angeles Lakers....

    , American basketball player, Seattle University
    Seattle University
    Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member...

  • Steve Bellan
    Steve Bellán
    Estevan Enrique "Steve" Bellán , also known as Esteban, was a Cuban professional baseball player who played as a third baseman for six seasons in the United States , three in the National Association of Base Ball Players from 1868 to , and three in the National Association of Professional Base...

    , Cuban baseball player, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

    , New York
  • Tom Benson
    Tom Benson
    See also Tom Benson and Tom Benson for the Northern Ireland Unionist.Tom Benson is the owner of the New Orleans Saints. He is currently the owner of several automobile dealerships in the Greater New Orleans and San Antonio areas...

    , New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints
    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....

     owner, Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located 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 name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

  • Saint Robert Bellarmine
    Robert Bellarmine
    Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation...

    , Gregorian University, Rome
  • Pope Benedict XIV
    Pope Benedict XIV
    Pope Benedict XIV , born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.-Life:...

    , Italian Pope, Collegium Clementianum
  • Robert Bennett
    Robert Bennett
    Robert Bennett or Bob Bennett may refer to:* Robert Bennett , mayor of Melbourne, 1861–1862* Robert Russell Bennett , composer* Robert Bennett , 1948 Olympic bronze medalist in hammer throw...

    , prominent Washington , D.C. attorney for, inter alia,President Clinton, Judith Miller, Caspar Winberger, Clark Clifford, Paul Wolfowitz, Sen. John McCain. Brooklyn Prep, Georgetown College
    Georgetown College
    Georgetown College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Kentucky, United States. Chartered as a college in 1829, Georgetown College was the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains...

    , Georgetwon University School of Law.
  • William Bennett
    William Bennett
    William John "Bill" Bennett is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W...

    , former US Secretary of Education and author, Gonzaga College High School
    Gonzaga College High School
    Gonzaga College High School is a Jesuit high school for boys located in Washington, D.C. The school is named in honor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, an Italian saint from the 16th century...

    , USA
  • Joseph Berardino
    Joseph Berardino
    Joseph F. Berardino is an American businessman, Certified Public Accountant, and managing director at Alvarez & Marsal. Beradino was formerly managing partner and CEO of Arthur Andersen and chairman and CEO of Profectus Bioscience....

    , former CEO of Arthur Andersen
    Arthur Andersen
    Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations...

     - Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Fr. Daniel Berrigan
    Daniel Berrigan
    Daniel Berrigan, SJ is an American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for their involvement in antiwar protests during the Vietnam war....

    , SJ, peace activist, author and professor, Woodstock College
    Woodstock College
    Woodstock College was a Jesuit seminary that existed from 1869 to 1974. It was the oldest Jesuit seminary in the United States. The school was located in Woodstock, Maryland, west of Baltimore, from its establishment until 1969, when it moved to New York City, where it operated in cooperation with...

    , Brooklyn Prep, Le Moyne College
    Le Moyne College
    Le Moyne College, named after Simon Le Moyne, is a private, Jesuit college enrolling over 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1946, Le Moyne is the first Jesuit college to be founded as a co-educational institution...

    , Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

     .
  • Philip Berrigan
    Philip Berrigan
    Philip Francis Berrigan was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest...

    , author and activist; educated at the College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Rubén Berríos
    Rubén Berríos
    Rubén Ángel Berríos Martínez is a lawyer, a Puerto Rican politician, and the current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party...

    , President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party
    Puerto Rican Independence Party
    The Puerto Rican Independence Party is a Puerto Rican political party that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from United States suzerainty....

     (PIP) (Partido Independentista de Puerto Rico); educated at the Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
    Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
    Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is a Catholic Jesuit college-preparatory school founded by the Society of Jesus in in 1952. The school was originally located in Santurce, but was moved to its current location by the Jesuit fathers in 1956. Colegio San Ignacio is the only Jesuit school in Puerto Rico...

     of Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

  • Sabeer Bhatia
    Sabeer Bhatia
    Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.- Background :...

    , Founder of Hotmail, St Josephs college Bangalore, India
  • Jacques de Billy
    Jacques de Billy
    Jacques de Billy was a French Jesuit mathematician. Born in Compiègne, he subsequently entered the Society of Jesus. From 1629 to 1630, Billy taught mathematics at the Jesuit College at Pontà Mousson. He was still studying theology at this time. From 1631 to 1633, Billy taught mathematics at...

    , French Jesuit mathematician
  • Daniel Birman Ripstein, Film Producer (El Crimen del Padre Amaro
    El crimen del Padre Amaro
    El crimen del padre Amaro is a 2002 film directed by Carlos Carrera. It is loosely based on the novel O Crime do Padre Amaro by 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz....

    , El callejón de los milagros
    El callejón de los milagros
    El callejón de los milagros is an award-winning 1994 Mexican film adapted from the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, written by Vicente Leñero and directed by Jorge Fons...

     and other films); educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • William Peter Blatty
    William Peter Blatty
    William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....

    , American author; Brooklyn Prep
    Brooklyn Preparatory School
    -History:Brooklyn Prep was a highly selective Jesuit preparatory school founded by the Society of Jesus in 1908. The school educated generations of young men from throughout New York City and Long Island until its untimely closure in 1972.The Prep was located on 1150 Carroll Street in the Crown...

     and Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Georg Freiherr von Boeselager
    Georg von Boeselager
    Georg Freiherr von Boeselager was a German nobleman and an officer of the Wehrmacht, who ultimately reached the rank of Colonel of Cavalry....

    , German officer; educated at Aloisiuskolleg
    Aloisiuskolleg
    The Aloisiuskolleg is a co-educational, private and Catholic University-preparatory school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany with an affiliated boarding school directed by the Jesuits. The school is named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. It has an excellent reputation and is considered one of the most...

  • Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager
    Philipp von Boeselager
    Oberstleutnant Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager was the second-to-last surviving member of the July 20 Plot, a conspiracy among high-ranking Wehrmacht officers to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1944....

    , German officer; educated at Aloisiuskolleg
    Aloisiuskolleg
    The Aloisiuskolleg is a co-educational, private and Catholic University-preparatory school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany with an affiliated boarding school directed by the Jesuits. The school is named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. It has an excellent reputation and is considered one of the most...

  • Fr. Jean Bolland
    Jean Bolland
    Jean Bolland was a Jesuit priest and prominent Southern Netherlandish hagiographer....

    , SJ, educator, scholar, researcher and hagiographer, founder of the Bollandists, and original editor and author of the Acta Sanctorum
    Acta Sanctorum
    Acta Sanctorum is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saint's feast day. It begins with two January volumes, published in 1643, and ended with the Propylaeum to...

    , educated at Jesuit colleges at Maastricht and Antwerp, Louvain
    Louvain
    Louvain may refer to:* Leuven or Louvain, the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium* Louvain-la-Neuve, a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium...

    , and was prefect of studies at Mechlin.
  • Jean-Charles de Borda
    Jean-Charles de Borda
    Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor.-Life history:...

    , French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor; educated at the Jesuit college at La Fleche
  • Gutzon Borglum
    Gutzon Borglum
    Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, as well as other public works of art.- Background :The son of Mormon Danish immigrants, Gutzon...

    , American sculptor; graduate of Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School , is a private, Jesuit college prep school founded in 1878 for young men. Centrally located in Omaha, Nebraska at 7400 Western Avenue, Prep is the largest Catholic high school in the state of Nebraska, USA with an enrollment of 1,038 young men...

  • Roger Boscovich, Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    n Jesuit astronomer; educated at the Jesuit College in Ragusa
    Dubrovnik
    Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

  • Charles Bossut
    Charles Bossut
    Charles Bossut was a French mathematician and confrère of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras, Loire, and died in Paris.His works include...

    , French mathematician, confrere of the Encyclopaedists; studied at the Jesuit College of Lyon.
  • Robert Bourassa
    Robert Bourassa
    Jean-Robert Bourassa, was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the 22nd Premier of Quebec in two different mandates, first from May 12, 1970, to November 25, 1976, and then from December 12, 1985, to January 11, 1994, serving a total of just under 15 years as Provincial Premier.-Early...

    , Quebec politician, College Jean-de-Brebeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private French-language educational institution offering secondary school and CEGEP college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It is boys-only in the first four years...

    , Montreal;
  • Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
    Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
    Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist....

    , French bishop and theologian; educated at the Collège des Godrans, a classical school run by the Jesuits of Dijon.
  • Isaac Broid Zajman
    Isaac Broid Zajman
    Isaac Broid Zajman is a Mexican architect and designer.- Biography :Broid studied under J. Francisco Serrano Cacho and Carlos Mijares Bracho at the faculty of architecture and urban planning of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and graduated as master of design at the Oxford Polytechnic, England...

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Till Brönner
    Till Brönner
    Till Brönner is a German jazz musician, trumpet player, singer, composer, arranger and producer. He has a unique jazz approach influenced by bebop and fusion jazz, but also modern pop music, movie soundtracks , country music and even German pop songs...

    , German musician; educated at Aloisiuskolleg
    Aloisiuskolleg
    The Aloisiuskolleg is a co-educational, private and Catholic University-preparatory school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany with an affiliated boarding school directed by the Jesuits. The school is named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. It has an excellent reputation and is considered one of the most...

     in Bonn
    Bonn
    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

    , Germany
  • Jerry Brown
    Jerry Brown
    Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...

    , American politician; graduated from St. Ignatius High School
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

     and studied at Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

  • Christopher Brennan
    Christopher Brennan
    Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet and scholar.-Biography:Brennan was born in Sydney, to Christopher Brennan , a brewer, and his wife Mary Ann , née Carroll, both Irish immigrants....

    , Australian author, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney;
  • Carlos Brito
    Carlos Brito (businessman)
    Carlos Brito is the inaugural CEO of the current no. 1 brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev.-Biography:Born in Rio de Janeiro, he holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and an MBA from Stanford University business school.Brito has worked for Shell Oil and...

    , CEO if InBev
    InBev
    InBev is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. The company existed independently for several years - since the merger between Interbrew and AmBev and until the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch. InBev has operations in over 30 countries and sales in over 130 countries...

    ; educated by the Jesuits in his native Brazil http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/13794110FEFAF8B886257484001A5CB7?OpenDocument
  • John Bruton
    John Bruton
    John Gerard Bruton is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 1994 to 1997. A minister under two taoisigh, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald, Bruton held a number of the top posts in Irish government, including Minister for Finance , and Minister for Industry, Trade,...

    , former Taoiseach
    Taoiseach
    The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...

     of Ireland, Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College is a voluntary secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the...

  • Pat Buchanan
    Pat Buchanan
    Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior adviser to American Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought...

    , American journalist; Gonzaga College High School
    Gonzaga College High School
    Gonzaga College High School is a Jesuit high school for boys located in Washington, D.C. The school is named in honor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, an Italian saint from the 16th century...

     and Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    ;
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
    William F. Buckley, Jr.
    William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...

    , American author, conservative commentator, and public intellectual; attended Beaumont College
    Beaumont College
    Beaumont College was a Jesuit public school in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England. In 1967 the school closed. The property became a conference centre, and from 2008 an hotel.-History of the estate:...

     in England
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

  • Clara de Buen Richkarday
    Clara de Buen Richkarday
    - Biografie :De Buen studied at the faculty of architecture and urban planning of the Universidad Iberoamericana. Since 1984 she has worked together with Aurelio Nuño Morales, Carlos Mac Gregor Ancinola and Francis Sáenzin their architecture bureau Despacho Nuño, Mac Gregor y de Buen Arquitectos S....

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Georges Buffon
    Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
    Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...

    , French naturalist
    Natural history
    Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

    , mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author; educated at the Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon
  • Jim Bunning
    Jim Bunning
    James Paul David "Jim" Bunning is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician.During a 17-year baseball career, he pitched from 1955 to 1971, most notably with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies. When he retired, he had the second-highest total of career...

    , American Senator and baseball player; Xavier University
    Xavier University (Cincinnati)
    Xavier University is a co-educational Jesuit university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,000 students and graduate enrollment of 2,600 students. Xavier is primarily...

  • Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

    , Spanish filmmaker, Jesuit College, Aragon, Spain.

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  • Ryan Cabrera
    Ryan Cabrera
    Ryan Frank Cabrera is an American pop rock musician. In 2004, Cabrera debuted with his single "On the Way Down", a top ten hit in the U.S., and album Take It All Away...

    , Colombian musician; Jesuit College Preparatory School
  • Rafael Caldera
    Rafael Caldera
    Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez was president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999.Caldera taught sociology and law at various universities before entering politics. He was a founding member of COPEI, Venezuela's Christian Democratic party...

    , Venezuelan politician; Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola Caracas
    Caracas
    Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

    , Venezuela
    Venezuela
    Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca , was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest...

    , Spanish dramatist, Jesuit College Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid was the name of a Jesuit teaching institution in Madrid....

  • Joseph Califano, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration; Brooklyn Prep]]] and [College of the Holy Cross
  • Daniel J. Callaghan
    Daniel J. Callaghan
    Daniel Judson Callaghan was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In a career spanning just over 30 years, he served his country in two wars...

    , American Admiral who won the Medal of Honor in WWII, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco
  • Tony Canadeo
    Tony Canadeo
    Anthony Robert "Tony" Canadeo was a professional football player, a halfback and quarterback for the NFL's Green Bay Packers from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1952, having missed the 1945 season while serving in the United States Army during World War II.Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Canadeo...

    , American football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player; Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

  • Philip Caputo
    Philip Caputo
    Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best-known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War....

    , American journalist; Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

  • Ernesto Cardenal
    Ernesto Cardenal
    Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left. From 1979 to 1987 he served as Nicaragua's first culture minister. He is also famous as a poet...

    , Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

    n priest and poet
  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as United States Senator for Maryland...

    , last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress
    Continental Congress
    The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution....

     and later US Senator for Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

    ; educated at the College of St. Omer in France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  • Daniel Carroll
    Daniel Carroll
    Daniel Carroll was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a prominent member of one of the United States' great colonial Catholic families, whose members included his younger brother Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States and...

    , American politician, considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
    Founding Fathers of the United States
    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were political leaders and statesmen who participated in the American Revolution by signing the United States Declaration of Independence, taking part in the American Revolutionary War, establishing the United States Constitution, or by some...

    ; educated at the College of St. Omer in Flanders
    Flanders
    Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

  • Archbishop John Carroll
    John Carroll
    -People:*John Carroll , American actor*John Carroll , Australian neoconservative writer*Sir John Carroll , British scientist*John Carroll -People:*John Carroll (actor) (1906–1979), American actor*John Carroll (author) (born 1944), Australian neoconservative writer*Sir John Carroll (astronomer)...

    , SJ, first American archbishop and founder of Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    , educated along with his brothers Charles and Daniel at College of St. Omer, Flanders.
  • Robert P. Casey, Sr., Governor of Pennsylvania - Scranton Preparatory School
    Scranton Preparatory School
    Scranton Preparatory School is a Catholic and Jesuit college preparatory day school for boys and girls. The current enrollment is 860 students. Prep is fully accredited by the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...

     and College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Robert P. Casey, Jr., US Senator - Scranton Preparatory School
    Scranton Preparatory School
    Scranton Preparatory School is a Catholic and Jesuit college preparatory day school for boys and girls. The current enrollment is 860 students. Prep is fully accredited by the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...

     and College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • William Casey, American former director of the CIA, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini
    Giovanni Domenico Cassini
    This article is about the Italian-born astronomer. For his French-born great-grandson, see Jean-Dominique Cassini.Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer...

    , Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer; studied at the Jesuit College at Genoa
  • Louis Bertrand Castel
    Louis Bertrand Castel
    Louis Bertrand Castel was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, and entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy...

    , French Jesuit mathematician; educated in the Jesuit school in Toulouse
  • Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro
    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...

    , President of Cuba - Colegio de Belen
    Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
    Belen Jesuit Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Miami, Florida operated by The Society of Jesus. It was established in Cuba by the Jesuits in 1854, but moved to the United States after the communist government of Fidel Castro, himself an alumnus, took power and expelled...

    , Havana, Cuba
  • Raúl Castro
    Raúl Castro
    Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008...

    , President of Cuba - Colegio de Belen
    Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
    Belen Jesuit Preparatory School is a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Miami, Florida operated by The Society of Jesus. It was established in Cuba by the Jesuits in 1854, but moved to the United States after the communist government of Fidel Castro, himself an alumnus, took power and expelled...

    , Havana, Cuba
  • Paul Cellucci
    Paul Cellucci
    Argeo Paul Cellucci is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 69th Governor of Massachusetts and US Ambassador to Canada.-Early life and career:...

    , former US Ambassador to Canada - Boston College.
  • Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...

    , Spanish author
  • Giovanni Ceva
    Giovanni Ceva
    Giovanni Ceva was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry. His brother, Tommaso Ceva was also a well known poet and mathematician....

    , Italian mathematician; educated at a Jesuit college in Milan.
  • Tommaso Ceva
    Tommaso Ceva
    Tommaso Ceva was an Italian Jesuit mathematician from Milan. He was the brother of Giovanni Ceva....

    , Italian mathematician; Jesuit College of Brera in Milan.
  • François de la Chaise
    François de la Chaise
    François de la Chaise was a French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France.-Biography:...

    , French priest and father confessor of King Louis XIV and the namesake of the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery
    Père Lachaise Cemetery
    Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France , though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the...

    ; studied at the Jesuit College of Lyon.
  • Ahmed Chalabi
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi is an Iraqi politician. He was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was...

    , Iraqi politician; attended Baghdad College
    Baghdad College
    Baghdad College is an elite high school for boys in Baghdad, Iraq. It is among the nation's most highly regarded preparatory schools, boasting several well-known alumni and countless Iraqi professionals and intellectuals now living throughout the world...

  • Christopher G. Champlin
    Christopher G. Champlin
    Christopher Grant Champlin was a United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Newport, he completed preparatory studies, was graduated from Harvard College in 1786, and continued his studies at the College of St. Omer in France.Champlin was elected as a Federalist to the...

    , United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island
    Rhode Island
    The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

    ; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank; educated at the College of St. Omer
  • Elwin Bruno Christoffel
    Elwin Bruno Christoffel
    Elwin Bruno Christoffel was a German mathematician and physicist.-Life:...

    , German and French mathematician and physicist, studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne
  • Vincent Cianci
    Vincent Cianci
    Vincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. served as the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2002...

    , American politician, Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...

    , American author, Loyola University Chicago
  • Walter Ciszek
    Walter Ciszek
    Rev. Walter Ciszek, S.J. was a Polish-American Jesuit priest known for his clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963....

     , S.J. (1904-1984) -- American priest of the Russian Catholic Church, served in Eastern Poland at outbreak of World War II, accused of being a Vatican spy, GULAG survivor, author of "With God in Russia" and " He Leadeth Me"; noted spiritual advisor. Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

  • Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy
    Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...

    , Jr., American author - Loyola College in Maryland
    Loyola College in Maryland
    Loyola University Maryland is a Roman Catholic, Jesuit private university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges...

     and Loyola High School
    Loyola Blakefield
    Loyola Blakefield is a Catholic, college preparatory school established by the Society of Jesus, to educate men for others. The ideal Loyola graduate is a man of integrity who, because he strives "to find God in all things," is open to growth, dedicated to academic excellence, religious, committed...

    , USA
  • Will Clark
    Will Clark
    William Nuschler Clark, Jr. is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the San Francisco Giants from to .Will was known by the nickname of "Will the Thrill"...

    , American baseball player; Jesuit High School, New Orleans, USA
  • Peter Claver
    Peter Claver
    Peter Claver was a Jesuit who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia and African Americans...

    , Roman Catholic saint
  • Christopher Clavius
    Christopher Clavius
    Christopher Clavius was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar...

    , German Jesuit astronomer
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

    , President of the United States; Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Johnnie Cochran
    Johnnie Cochran
    Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. J...

    , American lawyer; Loyola Law School
    Loyola Law School
    Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law , it...

    , Los Angeles, USA
  • Carl Colby, American documentary film maker, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    *Billy Collins
    Billy Collins
    Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...

    , American poet; educated at the College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Chris Collins
    Chris Collins (hockey)
    Chris Collins is a professional ice hockey forward for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the DEL.-Amateur:...

    , American hockey player; Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

    .
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

    , British author; Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

    , United Kingdom
  • Marquis de Condorcet
    Marquis de Condorcet
    Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet , known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election...

    , French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist; educated at the Jesuit College in Reims
  • Harry Connick, Jr, American singer, entertainer, movie actor; Jesuit High School, New Orleans
  • Pat Conroy
    Pat Conroy
    Pat Conroy , is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.-Early life:...

    , American writer, Gonzaga High School, Washington, DC (one year)
  • Arthur W. Conway
    Arthur W. Conway
    Arthur William Conway FRS was President of University College Dublin between 1940 and 1947.Born in Wexford, he received his early education in St Peter’s College, Wexford and proceeded to enter old University College, Dublin in 1892. He received his BA Degree from the Royal University of Ireland...

    , Irish mathematician and President of University College Dublin
    University College Dublin
    University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

    , where he had received a Jesuit education as a young man
  • Pierre Corneille
    Pierre Corneille
    Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...

    , French dramatist
  • E. Gerald Corrigan
    E. Gerald Corrigan
    Edward Gerald Corrigan is an American banker who was the 7th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice-Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee...

    , American banker, 7th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
    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 located at 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey,...

    ; Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Pierre de Coubertin
    Pierre de Coubertin
    Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games...

    , French pedagogue and historian
  • Bob Cousy
    Bob Cousy
    Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy is a retired American professional basketball player. The 6'1" , 175-pound Cousy played point guard with the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics from 1951 to 1963 and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1969–70 season...

    , American basketball player; College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....

     American entertainer, Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

    , Spokane, USA
  • Johann Baptist Cysat
    Johann Baptist Cysat
    Johann Baptist Cysat was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom the lunar crater Cysatus is named...

    , Swiss mathematician and astronomer; studied at the University of Ingolstadt
    University of Ingolstadt
    The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It consisted of five faculties: humanities, sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of which were contained in the Hoheschule...


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  • Arthur Daley, New York Times columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

  • William M. Daley
    William M. Daley
    William Michael “Bill” Daley is an American lawyer and former banker and is the current White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served as U.S...

    , former United States Secretary of Commerce
    United States Secretary of Commerce
    The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...

    , Loyola University Chicago
  • François d'Aguilon
    François d'Aguilon
    François d'Aguilon , was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect....

    , Belgian mathematician and physicist.
  • Fr. Paolo dall'Oglio, SJ, re-founder of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa al-Habachi, Nabak, Syria and renowned promoter of dialogue between Muslims and Christians, Gregorian University
  • Roque Dalton
    Roque Dalton
    Roque Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets...

    , Salvadoran poet and journalist; graduate of Externado San José
    Externado San José
    Externado San José is a private and Catholic school run by the Society of Jesus in San Salvador, El Salvador.-Brief history:A recognized Catholic and private institution of basic and secondary education run by the Jesuits. It was founded in 1921 and operated as a school for boys until the 1970s,...

    , in San Salvador
    San Salvador
    The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...

  • Rubén Darío
    Rubén Darío
    Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...

    , Nicaraguan poet; educated by the Jesuits of Leon, Nicaragua
    León, Nicaragua
    León is a department in northwestern Nicaragua . It is also the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. It was founded by the Spaniards as Santiago de los Caballeros de León and rivals Granada, Nicaragua, in the number of historic Spanish colonial homes and churches...

  • Geoffrey Da Silva
    Geoffrey Da Silva
    Geoffrey da Silva is a politician and administrator in Guyana. He was the Guyanese Minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry from 1999 to 2001 and later served as head of Guyana Investment .-Activities in Canada:...

    , Guyanese politician and administrator, attended St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College is in Georgetown, Guyana, with a student population of over five hundred and a teaching staff of about forty.The College motto is ‘Aeterna Non Caduca’ .The school was opened in May 1866. It was an all boys' school.In the early years, the school was known as St...

    , Guyana
  • David DeCaires
    David DeCaires
    David de Caires was a Guyanese solicitor. He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News.Trained as a solicitor, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express...

    , respected Guyanese journalist, attended Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

    , England
  • Raymond J. Dearie
    Raymond J. Dearie
    Raymond Joseph Dearie is a senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated by President Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a new seat created by 98 Stat...

    , American judge, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the entirety of Long Island and Staten Island...

    ; Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Bob Dickinson - CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines
    Carnival Cruise Lines
    Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line, based in Doral, Florida, a suburb of Miami in the United States. Originally an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, the company is now one of eleven cruise ship brands owned and operated by Carnival Corporation & plc...

    , John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie....

    , French Enlightenment philopsohr, art critic, and author, co-founder the the Encyclopédie
    Encyclopédie
    Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It was edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert...

    , educated at College Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France
  • Timothy Donahue
    Timothy Donahue
    Timothy Donahue was Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc. He began his career with Nextel in January 1996 as president and chief operating officer. On October 10, 2006, Mr...

     - Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel
    Sprint Nextel
    Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...

    , John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Marco Antonio de Dominis
    Marco Antonio de Dominis
    Marco Antonio Dominis was a Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science.-Early life:He was born on the island of Rab, Croatia, off the coast of Dalmatia...

    , Dalmatia
    Dalmatia
    Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

    n ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science; educated by the Jesuits in their colleges at Loreto and Padua
  • Christian de Duve
    Christian de Duve
    Christian René, viscount de Duve is a Nobel Prize-winning cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian refugees. They returned to Belgium in 1920...

    , Belgian scientist, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     for medicine in 1974, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Jean-Luc Dehaene
    Jean-Luc Dehaene
    -Early life and political career:He was born in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing German troops. He got into politics through the Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond , a trade union which was closely linked to the Christelijke Volkspartij .In 1981, he became Minister of Social...

    , former Belgian prime minister, Sint-Jozefscollege, Aalst, Belgium
  • Jean-Charles de la Faille
    Jean-Charles de la Faille
    Jean-Charles de la Faille or Jan-Karel della Faille was a Flemish Jesuit mathematician....

    , French Jesuit mathematician; attended the Jesuit College in Antwerp and the Jesuit College in Mechelen
  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer; attended the Jesuit College in Amiens
  • Don DeLillo
    Don DeLillo
    Don DeLillo is an American author, playwright, and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries...

    , American novelist; Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Jacques Delors
    Jacques Delors
    Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...

    , French politician
  • René Descartes
    René Descartes
    René Descartes ; was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day...

    , French philosopher, educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche in Anjou, France.
  • Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie....

    , French philosopher and writer
  • Lejeune Dirichlet
    Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
    Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician with deep contributions to number theory , as well as to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a...

    , German mathematician; attended the Jesuit College in Cologne
  • Khoa Do
    Khoa Do
    Khoa Do , born 1979, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is a film director, screenwriter, professional speaker and philanthropist who received the Young Australian of the Year Award in 2005. The Do family arrived in Sydney as Vietnamese refugees in 1980. His brother is the comedian Anh Do...

    , Australian filmmaker; educated at St Aloysius' College in Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

  • Dr. John
    Dr. John
    Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...

    , American musician, Jesuit High School, New Orleans.
  • Chris Dodd, American politician, Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School is an American Jesuit college preparatory school for grades 9 through 12. It is the oldest all boys school in the United States, and the only Jesuit boarding school in the country...

  • Tom Dooley
    Thomas Anthony Dooley
    Thomas Anthony Dooley III was an American who, while serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, became increasingly famous for his humanitarian and political activities in South East Asia during the late 1950s until his early death from cancer...

    , American Catholic physician and humanitarian; St. Louis University High, St. Louis University
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

     detective stories; educated at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall
    Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall
    Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. It is an independent co-educational Catholic school founded by the Society of Jesus . It is primarily a day school but has some boarders...

     and Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • Rahul Dravid
    Rahul Dravid
    Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...

    , Former Indian Cricket Captain, St. Joseph's School and St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.
  • Sixto Durán Ballén
    Sixto Durán Ballén
    Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez is an U.S.-born Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978, and as president of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996...

    , Ecuadorian President (1992–96), Colegio San Gabriel,Quito.
  • Will Durant
    Will Durant
    William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...

    , American philosopher and author, Saint Peter's College
    Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
    Saint Peter's College is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic college in the United States. Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, it was founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus. Today, Saint Peter's College is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

    , Jersey City.
  • Richard J. Durbin, American politician, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Avery Dulles, American cardinal, professor and theologian; son of Secretary of State Dulles
    John Foster Dulles
    John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world...

    ; studied at the Gregorian University in Rome

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  • Timothy Egan
    Timothy Egan
    Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who resides in Seattle. He currently contributes opinion columns to The New York Times as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent...

    , Pulitzer Prize winning writer; graduate of Gonzaga Preparatory School
    Gonzaga Preparatory School
    Gonzaga Preparatory School located in Spokane, Washington is a private Catholic high school in the Inland Northwest. As a Jesuit institution, "G-Prep" has been recognized for its college preparation education, and community service.- History :...

     in Spokane, WA
  • Ignacio Ellacuría
    Ignacio Ellacuría
    Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian who did important work as a professor and rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" , a Jesuit university in El Salvador founded in 1965...

    , Spanish liberation theologian
    Liberation theology
    Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...

     and professor at Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"
  • Keith Ellison
    Keith Ellison (politician)
    Keith Maurice Ellison is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The district centers on Minneapolis. He was re-elected in 2010. Ellison is a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.He is the first Muslim to be elected to the...

    , American lawyer and politician, graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School
  • Patrick Ewing
    Patrick Ewing
    Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. is a Jamaican-American retired Hall of Fame basketball player and current assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic. He played most of his career with the NBA's New York Knicks as their starting center and played briefly with the Seattle...

    , American basketball player, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    .
  • Nick Enright
    Nick Enright
    -Life:He was drama captain of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in 1964, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. At that school, he won the 1sts Debating Premiership in both 1966 and 1967....

    , Australian playwright, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
  • Juan Ponce Enrile
    Juan Ponce Enrile
    Juan Ponce Enrile is a Filipino politician. As a protege of President Ferdinand Marcos, he served as Justice Secretary and then Defense Secretary under the Marcos regime. He later became one of the leaders of the 1986 People Power Movement that drove Marcos from power...

    , Philippine politician; former Marcos Defense Minister; studied at the Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Ahmet Ertegün
    Ahmet Ertegun
    Ahmet Ertegün was a Turkish American musician and businessman, best known as the founder and president of Atlantic Records. He also wrote classic blues and pop songs and served as Chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum...

    , American entrepreneur; educated at Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Farid Esack
    Farid Esack
    Farid Esack 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-religious dialogue.-Early life:...

    , South African scholar, writer and political activist; studied at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology
    Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology
    The Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology is an academic seminary in Frankfurt am Main, Germany....

     in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

  • Raúl Esparza
    Raúl Esparza
    Raúl Eduardo Esparza is an American stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his award winning performances in Broadway shows...

    , American actor

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  • Anthony Fauci
    Anthony Fauci
    Anthony S. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases .-Education and career:Anthony Stephen Fauci was born on...

    , Italian-American immunologist, attended Regis High School
    Regis High School (New York City)
    Regis High School is a private Jesuit university-preparatory school for academically gifted Roman Catholic young men located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Annual class enrollment is limited to approximately 135 male students from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state area...

     and the College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Kevin Fagan
    Kevin Fagan (doctor)
    Kevin James Fagan AO was an Australian doctor and World War II hero.After attending St Ignatius' College, Riverview on a bursary, Fagan was Dux of the School in both 1925 and 1926, enabling him to study Medicine at the University of Sydney...

    , Australian doctor and World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     hero, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney;
  • Chris Farley
    Chris Farley
    Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995....

    , American comedian and actor, Marquette University, Wisconsin;
  • Ferdinand II
    Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
    Ferdinand II , a member of the House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor , King of Bohemia , and King of Hungary . His rule coincided with the Thirty Years' War.- Life :...

    , of the House of Habsburg
    Habsburg
    The House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...

    , reigned as Holy Roman Emperor
    Holy Roman Emperor
    The Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...

     from 1620–1637; educated at the University of Ingolstadt
    University of Ingolstadt
    The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It consisted of five faculties: humanities, sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of which were contained in the Hoheschule...

  • Jon Favreau
    Jon Favreau (speechwriter)
    Jonathan "Jon" Favreau is Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama. Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, graduating as valedictorian. In college, he accumulated a variety of scholastic honors, and took part in and directed numerous community and civic programs...

    , head speechwriter for U.S. President Barack Obama; was the valedictorian of his class at the College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Diego Fernández de Ceballos, Mexican senator, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

    , Mexico;
  • Geraldine Ferraro
    Geraldine Ferraro
    Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party....

    , American politician, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Anthony Fisher
    Anthony Fisher
    Bishop Anthony Fisher is the Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, NSW Australia and a friar of the Order of Preachers . He was installed as the third Bishop of Parramatta on 4 March 2010, having previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney.-Early life and education:Anthony Fisher...

    , Australian prelate, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney;
  • Garret FitzGerald
    Garret FitzGerald
    Garret FitzGerald was an Irish politician who was twice Taoiseach of Ireland, serving in office from July 1981 to February 1982 and again from December 1982 to March 1987. FitzGerald was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1965 and was subsequently elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD in 1969. He...

    , Irish economist and politician, Belvedere College
    Belvedere College
    Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College....

  • Patrick Fitzgerald
    Patrick Fitzgerald
    Patrick J. Fitzgerald is the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel...

    , American attorney, alumnus of Regis High School
    Regis High School (New York City)
    Regis High School is a private Jesuit university-preparatory school for academically gifted Roman Catholic young men located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Annual class enrollment is limited to approximately 135 male students from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state area...

  • Maile Flanagan
    Maile Flanagan
    Maile Flanagan is an American actress known for her role as the protagonist ninja Naruto Uzumaki in Naruto, Geri O'Flanagan in 3Way, and Janet in Yes Man.-Personal life:...

    , American voice actress and comedian, Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

  • Justin Fleming
    Justin Fleming
    Justin Fleming , born Sydney, Australia is a playwright and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France...

    , Australian playwright, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
  • London Fletcher
    London Fletcher
    London Levi Fletcher-Baker is an American football linebacker who has played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League since 2007. Undrafted in 1998, he was signed by the St. Louis Rams as a rookie free agent, where he spent four seasons. In 2002, he was signed to the Buffalo...

    , American Football Player, John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Doug Flutie
    Doug Flutie
    Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and United States Football League...

    , American football player, Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

  • John Patrick Foley
    John Patrick Foley
    John Patrick Foley is an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From 2007 until 2011, he was Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, having previously served as President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 1984 to 2007. He was...

    , Cardinal, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
    Order of the Holy Sepulchre
    The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is a Roman Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the pope. It traces its roots to Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, principal leader of the First Crusade...

    , Saint Joseph's Preparatory School; Saint Joseph's College
    Saint Joseph's University
    Saint Joseph's University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located partially in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia and partially in Lower Merion Township and located in the Pennsylvania Main Line, Pennsylvania, United States.The school was founded in 1851 as Saint...

  • Thomas Foley, American politician; Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

    , Spokane
  • Fontenelle
    Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle , also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author.Fontenelle was born in Rouen, France and died in Paris just one month before his 100th birthday. His mother was the sister of great French dramatists Pierre and Thomas Corneille...

    , French author, Jesuit College, Rouen
  • William P. Ford
    William P. Ford
    William P. Ford was the brother of Ita Ford, and an advocate for his sister and the people of El Salvador.-Legal career:He graduated from Fordham College in 1960, and later received his law degree from St. John's University. Originally, he worked for the law firm of Mudge Rose, and later formed...

    , international civil rights attorney, Brooklyn Prep Fordham College
  • Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

    , French philosopher, Saint-Stanislaus, Poiters
  • Vicente Fox
    Vicente Fox
    Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...

    , President of Mexico
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

    , Campion Jesuit High School (2 years) Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

    , Mexico
  • Pedro Friedeberg
    Pedro Friedeberg
    Pedro Friedeberg is a Mexican painter.-External Links:*...

     - Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Painter, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Frankie Frisch
    Frankie Frisch
    Francis “Frankie” Frisch , nicknamed the "Fordham Flash" or "The Old Flash", was a German American Major League Baseball player of the early twentieth century....

    , American baseball player, third all-time on the list for World Series hits, behind Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle and just ahead of Joe DiMaggio Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

     and Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Mauricio Funes
    Mauricio Funes
    Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena is the President of El Salvador. He won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front political party and took office on 1 June 2009.-Biography:Funes is married to Dr. Vanada Pignado, who was involved in...

    , President of El Salvador
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

    ; educated at Externado San José
    Externado San José
    Externado San José is a private and Catholic school run by the Society of Jesus in San Salvador, El Salvador.-Brief history:A recognized Catholic and private institution of basic and secondary education run by the Jesuits. It was founded in 1921 and operated as a school for boys until the 1970s,...

     in San Salvador

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  • Fr. Ivan Gagarin
    Ivan Gagarin
    Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion to Catholicism. He was of the princely Russian family which traces its origin to the ancient rulers of Starodub.-Life:He was the son of the Russian state-councillor, Prince Sergius Gagarin, and Barbara...

    , SJ, Russian Catholic polemist and author, St-Acheul, Brugelette, and Laval.
  • Delia Gallagher
    Delia Gallagher
    Delia Buckley Gallagher is an American journalist based in Rome who currently serves as the Senior Editor for Inside the Vatican magazine. She formerly served as CNN’s Faith and Values Correspondent. Based in New York, Gallagher was a long time CNN Vatican Analyst, Vaticanologist, and religious...

    , American journalist, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  • Sourav Ganguly
    Sourav Ganguly
    Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...

    , Former Indian Cricket Captain, St. Xavier's Kolkatta
  • St. Thomas Garnet
    Thomas Garnet
    Saint Thomas Garnet was a Jesuit priest. He is the protomartyr of Saint Omer and therefore of Stonyhurst College. He was executed at Tyburn and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Thomas Garnet's family:Thomas Garnet was born into a prominent family...

     SJ, canonized saint and protomartyr of St Omers, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
    Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
    The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men and women who were executed for treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1535 and 1679...

    ; educated at the College of St. Omer
  • Charles de Gaulle
    Charles de Gaulle
    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

    , former President of France
  • Soe Hok Gie
    Soe Hok Gie
    Soe Hok Gie was a Chinese Indonesian activist who opposed the successive dictatorships of Presidents Sukarno and Suharto.- Overview :...

    , Indonesian activist, ; educated at Kanisius
    Kanisius
    Kolese Kanisius is a high school in Menteng, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It was established in 1927 by a group of Jesuit pastors, and is a Jesuit school...

     in Jakarta
    Jakarta
    Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

    .
  • Bachir Gemayel
    Bachir Gemayel
    Bachir Gemayel was a Lebanese politician, militia commander, and president-elect...

    , Lebanese politician; educated at the Université Saint-Joseph
    Université Saint-Joseph
    Saint Joseph University is a private Catholic higher institute of education founded by the Jesuits in 1875 in Beirut, Lebanon, known for its school of medicine and its hospital, Hôtel-Dieu de France. The Lebanese state officially recognizes the university and the diplomas it grants in accord with...

  • Marin Getaldić
    Marin Getaldic
    Marin Getaldić was a scientist from the Republic of Ragusa. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. He was one of the few students of François Viète....

    , Croatian mathematician and physicist. Educated by Clavius
  • Gordon Getty
    Gordon Getty
    Gordon Peter Getty was born on December 20, 1934. He is the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's third wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$2 billion trust...

    , Billionaire and businessman, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco
  • John Paul Getty
    Paul Getty
    Sir John Paul Getty KBE , born Eugene Paul Getty, was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector. He was the elder son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr...

    , American-British philanthropist, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  • Ludovico Geymonat
    Ludovico Geymonat
    Ludovico Geymonat was an Italian Marxist philosopher, who gave an original turn to dialectical materialism....

    , Italian Marxist philosopher; educated at the Istituto Sociale in Turin
    Turin
    Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

  • Carlos Ghosn
    Carlos Ghosn
    Carlos Ghosn, KBE , born 9 March 1954, is a Brazilian-Lebanese-French businessman who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan and holds the same positions at Paris-based Renault, which together produce more than one in 10 cars worldwide...

    , CEO of Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

     and Nissan Motors
    Nissan Motors
    , usually shortened to Nissan , is a multinational automaker headquartered in Japan. It was a core member of the Nissan Group, but has become more independent after its restructuring under Carlos Ghosn ....

    ; educated at the Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour in Lebanon
  • John J. Gilluly, American attorney and Saints fan, Jesuit High School, New Orleans;
  • Bob Gibson
    Bob Gibson
    Robert "Bob" Gibson is a retired American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "Hoot" and "Gibby", he was a right-handed pitcher who played his entire 17-year Major League Baseball career with St. Louis Cardinals...

    , Hall-Of-Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

     -- Creighton University
    Creighton University
    Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...

    ;
  • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Gregorian University, Rome;
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...

    , Mexican filmmaker, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

    , Mexico City;
  • Baltasar Gracián
    Baltasar Gracián
    Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud .-Biography:...

    , Spanish writer
  • Guido Grandi
    Guido Grandi
    thumb|Guido GrandiDom Guido Grandi, O.S.B. Cam., was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, mathematician, and engineer.-Life:...

    , Italian priest and professor of mathematics, philosophy, and theology; educated at the Jesuit college in Cremona
  • Bernie Grant
    Bernie Grant
    Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant , known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death....

    , First African-Caribbean Member of Parliament, Westminster; educated at St. Stanislaus College, Guyana.
  • Todd Graves (entrepreneur)
    Todd Graves (entrepreneur)
    Todd Graves is an American entrepreneur and the founder, chairman and CEO of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, a fast food restaurant that offers fried chicken fingers as its only main course...

    , owner of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located 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 name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

  • Stanley Greaves
    Stanley Greaves
    Stanley Greaves is a painter and writer who was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He studied Art in Guyana with Edward Burrowes in the Working Peoples' Art Class, 1948-61. Attended University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK 1963-68 did painting, majoring in...

    , well-known Guyanese and Caribbean artist, educated at St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College is in Georgetown, Guyana, with a student population of over five hundred and a teaching staff of about forty.The College motto is ‘Aeterna Non Caduca’ .The school was opened in May 1866. It was an all boys' school.In the early years, the school was known as St...

    , Guyana
  • Nick Greiner
    Nick Greiner
    Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

    , Australian politician, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

  • Xu Guangqi
    Xu Guangqi
    Xu Guangqi , was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming Dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and they translated several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of...

    , Chinese agricultural scientist and mathematician who studied under Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th-18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God....

  • Camillo-Guarino Guarini
    Camillo-Guarino Guarini
    thumb|300px|The [[Carignano Palace]] in Turin.Camillo-Guarino Guarini was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer.-Biography:Guarini was born in Modena...

    , Italian priest, mathematician, theologian and architect
  • Teofisto Guingona, Jr.
    Teofisto Guingona, Jr.
    Teofisto Tayko Guingona, Jr. was the Vice President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004 during the first term of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.-Early Life and Career:...

    , Filipino politician, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
  • Teofisto "TG" Guingona III
    Teofisto Guingona III
    Teofisto de Lara Guingona III or TG, is a Filipino politician.-Representative of 2nd District, Bukidnon:In 2004, he has been elected to two terms in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, as the Representative from the Second District of Bukidnon...

     - son of Teofisto Guingona, Jr., Filipino politician, Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Paul Guldin
    Paul Guldin
    Paul Guldin was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution. This theorem is also known as Pappus–Guldinus theorem and Pappus's centroid theorem, attributed to Pappus of Alexandria...

    , Swiss astronomer and mathematician; educated at the Gregorian University in Rome where he studied under Clavius.
  • Gustavo Gutiérrez
    Gustavo Gutiérrez
    Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P., is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology...

    , Dominican priest, professor, author, and liberation theologian
    Liberation theology
    Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...

  • Jorge Guzmán
    El Hijo del Santo
    Jorge Guzmán Rodríguez , better known as El Hijo del Santo , is a Mexican professional wrestler, political activist and one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre...

     - professional wrestler; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...


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  • William Habington
    William Habington
    William Habington was an English poet.He was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family...

    , English Poet, St. Omer College, Belgium
  • Carter Ham
    Carter Ham
    Carter F. Ham is a United States Army general, who serves as the second and current Commander, U.S. Africa Command. In that position, he has been in command of the initial 2011 military intervention in Libya....

     - General, United States Army
    United States Army
    The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

    , currently serving as Commanding General, U.S. Army, Europe, John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Howard W. "Hoddy" Hanna, III - Chairman and CEO of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services Inc., John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Michael Harrington
    Michael Harrington
    Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Personal life:...

    , Harvard professor, political activist and author, St. Louis University High School and College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Richard Harris
    Richard Harris
    Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....

    , Irish actor, Crescent College
    Crescent College
    Crescent College Comprehensive SJ is a secondary school located on a section of 40 acres of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.- History :...

    , Limerick, Ireland
  • Joseph E. Hasten
    Joseph E. Hasten
    Joseph E. Hasten was the President and CEO of ShoreBank, America's first and leading community development and environmental bank founded in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois and named one of Fast Company's 45 Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World in 2008. Mr...

    , American banker, CEO of Shorebank
    ShoreBank
    ShoreBank was a community development bank founded and headquartered in Chicago. At the time of its closing it was the oldest and largest such institution, and in 2008 had $2.6 billion in assets. It was owned by ShoreBank Corporation, a regulated bank holding company.ShoreBank had branches in...

    ; Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Francis Hawkins
    Francis Hawkins
    This article is about the 17th century British Jesuit. For the contemporary Australian politician, see Frank Hawkins .Francis Hawkins was an English Jesuit and child prodigy and translator. His primary fame derives from two translations he did while quite young, although he had a long career...

     SJ, Jesuit, child prodigy and translator; translated (aged 10) An Alarum for Ladyes, translated from de La Serre (aged 13) thirteenYouths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men (1641); educated at the College of St. Omer
  • Salma Hayek
    Salma Hayek
    Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...

    , Mexican actress; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Martin Heidegger
    Martin Heidegger
    Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

    , German philosopher; educated at Freiburg Jesuit Seminary
  • Roberto Hernández Ramírez
    Roberto Hernández Ramírez
    Roberto Hernández Ramírez is a Mexican businessman. He is a former CEO of Banco Nacional de México , Mexico's second largest bank, just after BBVA Bancomer, from Spain. He is currently a member of the administration board of Citigroup.Chairman of the Board, Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A...

     - President of Banamex and Member of the Board Citibank
    Citibank
    Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

    ; educated at the Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Higgins Clark
    Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...

    , American writer, Fordham University, Bronx, New York
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

    , British film director, St Ignatius' College
    St Ignatius' College
    St Ignatius' College is a Catholic secondary school for boys, aged 11–18, located in Enfield, Middlesex. Formerly a grammar school, only accepting boys who had passed their Eleven plus exam, its educational philosophy was originally based upon the Jesuit precept of Ignatius of Loyola:Its current...

    , Enfield, London
  • Morihiro Hosokawa
    Morihiro Hosokawa
    is a Japanese politician who was the 79th Prime Minister of Japan from August 9, 1993 to April 28, 1994. His coalition was the first non-Liberal Democratic Party government since 1955.- Early life :...

    , Japanese politician, Bachelor of Laws from Sophia University
    Sophia University
    There are several rankings below related to Sophia University.-General Rankings:The university was ranked 61st in 2010 in the ranking Truly Strong Universities by Toyo Keizai...

  • Robert Hughes
    Robert Hughes (critic)
    Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, AO is an Australian-born art critic, writer and television documentary maker who has resided in New York since 1970.-Early life:...

    , Australian art critic
    Art critic
    An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

    , writer and television documentary maker; educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

     in Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

    , Australia
  • Vicente Huidobro
    Vicente Huidobro
    Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo , which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.Huidobro was born into a wealthy...

    , Chilean poet
  • David Hume
    David Hume
    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...

    , Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian; studied at the Jesuit seminary at La Fleche in Anjou, France
  • Saint Alberto Hurtado
    Alberto Hurtado
    Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga , popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer of Basque origin, founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation...

    , Chilean priest and saint; major figure in the labor movements of his time, e.g. founded the Chilean Trade Union Association
  • Zakir Hussain
    Zakir Hussain (musician)
    Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...

    , Indian musician; educated at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai
    Mumbai
    Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

    , India
  • Henry Hyde
    Henry Hyde
    Henry John Hyde , an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport...

    , American politician, Georgetown graduate with law degree from Loyola University Chicago
  • Dan Hynes, American politician, St. Ignatius College Prep
    St. Ignatius College Prep
    Saint Ignatius College Prep is a private, coeducational Jesuit high school located in Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded in Chicago in 1870 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Belgian missionary to the United States. The school is coeducational, Catholic, college preparatory and sponsored by the...

    , Chicago, Illinois

I

  • Innocent XI, Pope, Como
    Como
    Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....

    , Italy;
  • Allen Iverson
    Allen Iverson
    Allen Ezail Iverson is an American professional basketball point guard and shooting guard. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the number one pick in the 1996 NBA Draft. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in the 1996–97 season...

    , NBA All-Star
    All-star
    All-star is a term designating an individual as having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry...

     Player, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

     (two years);

J

  • Peter Jankowski
    Peter Jankowski
    Peter Jankowski is an executive producer of Law & Order and a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross.Jankowski also holds executive producer credits from Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Conviction, Dragnet, Crime & Punishment, Arrest &...

    , Television producer, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

    , MA;

Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Thomas Gerald Joyce , Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland since July 2005...

, Australian senator, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
St Ignatius' College, Riverview
Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

, Sydney;
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

    , Irish novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     for literature, Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College is a voluntary secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the...

     Co. Kildare and Belvedere College
    Belvedere College
    Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College....

     Dublin;
  • John Paul I, Pope, Gregorian University, Rome;
  • Paul Johnson, British journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • Pierre-Marc Johnson
    Pierre-Marc Johnson
    Pierre-Marc Johnson, , is a Quebec lawyer, physician and politician. He was the 24th Premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985.- Early background :...

    , Former Quebec Premier, College Jean-de-Brebeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private French-language educational institution offering secondary school and CEGEP college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It is boys-only in the first four years...

    , Montreal;
  • Edward P. Jones
    Edward P. Jones
    Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:...

    , American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Raúl Juliá
    Raúl Juliá
    Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor.Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson...

    , American actor, studied at Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
    Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola
    Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is a Catholic Jesuit college-preparatory school founded by the Society of Jesus in in 1952. The school was originally located in Santurce, but was moved to its current location by the Jesuit fathers in 1956. Colegio San Ignacio is the only Jesuit school in Puerto Rico...

     class of 1957

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  • Tim Kaine
    Tim Kaine
    Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine is a Virginia politician. Kaine served as the 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, and was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011...

    , governor of Virginia; educated at Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School is a private, Roman Catholic, Jesuit, preparatory school for boys located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on the Missouri-Kansas border along State Line Road....

     in Kansas City, Missouri
  • Sebastian Kappen
    Sebastian Kappen
    Sebastian Kappen , was a renowned Indian Jesuit priest and Theologian.-Formation and studies:...

    , S.J., Jesuit priest and liberation theologian. Studied and the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy
  • John Kerry
    John Kerry
    John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

    , US Senator, 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate, JD, Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

    , Chestnut Hill, MA;
  • John Keegan
    John Keegan
    Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL is a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime, and intelligence warfare, as well as the psychology of battle.-Life and career:John...

    , English military historian; graduate of Wimbledon College
    Wimbledon College
    Wimbledon College is a government-maintained voluntary-aided Jesuit Roman Catholic high school for boys aged 11 to 19. The school is based at Edge Hill, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 "for improvement in living and learning to the greater glory of God and the common good"...

  • Bob Keeshan
    Bob Keeshan
    Robert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.Keeshan also played the original...

    , American actor, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Bohdan Khmelnytsky
    Bohdan Khmelnytsky
    Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state...

    , Cossack
    Cossack
    Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...

     leader, educated by the Jesuits in L'vov, Ukraine
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

  • Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine...

    , German Jesuit scholar and polymath
    Polymath
    A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...

    ; educated at the Jesuit College in Fulda
  • Curt Kirkwood
    Curt Kirkwood
    Curtis Matthew Kirkwood is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but currently resides in Austin, Texas....

    , American singer in the musical group The Meat Puppets. Attended Brophy College Preparatory
    Brophy College Preparatory
    Brophy College Preparatory is a Jesuit high school located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school is currently limited to all-male enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. It is operated independently of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix...

     in Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

    .
  • Peter Hans Kolvenbach
    Peter Hans Kolvenbach
    Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., S.T.D. , was the 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male religious order of the Catholic Church.-Life:...

    , Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Canisius College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
  • Hans Küng
    Hans Küng
    Hans Küng is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic . Küng is "a Catholic priest in good standing", but the Vatican has rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology...

    , Swiss Catholic priest, author and theologian. Studied at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy

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  • Jacques Lacan
    Jacques Lacan
    Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...

    , French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor involved in the psychoanalytic movement; educated by Jesuits at the Collège Stanislas in Paris
  • La Condamine
    Charles Marie de La Condamine
    Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.-Biography:Charles Marie de La...

    , French geographer and mathematician; studied at the Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris
  • Philippe de La Hire
    Philippe de La Hire
    Philippe de La Hire was a French mathematician and astronomer. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself"....

    , French mathematician
  • Jérôme Lalande
    Jérôme Lalande
    Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer and writer.-Biography:Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse...

    , French astronomer; studied at the Jesuit College in Lyon
  • Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
    Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
    Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.Lambsdorff is a...

    , German politician
  • Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., Cuban-American celebrity gossip blogger who writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton. Educated at Belen Jesuit in Miami, Florida
  • Francesco Lana de Terzi
    Francesco Lana de Terzi
    Francesco Lana de Terzi was an Italian Jesuit, mathematician, naturalist and aeronautics pioneer...

    , Italian aeronautics pioneer, studied under Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine...

  • Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.-Early life and career:...

    , English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, and producer; educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • Cecilia Landerreche - Director of the DIF
    Desarrollo Integral de la Familia
    The National System for Integral Family Development is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families...

    , Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary
    Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

    , American psychologist and writer, expelled from College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

    , Worcester, Massachusetts after his freshman year,
  • Jordhy Ledesma
    Jordhy Ledesma
    Jordhy Ledesma is an award winning Dominican poet, mathematician, chess player and businessman born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic in 1978...

    , Dominican web architect and poet; educated at Instituto Politecnico Loyola
    Instituto Politécnico Loyola
    Instituto Politécnico Loyola is located in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. It is one of the most prominent Dominican technical institutes. It is particularly known for its agronomists. The I.P.L. is the best technical school in D.R. It offers many several technical careers. For example:...

  • Byron Lee
    Byron Lee
    Byron Lee OD, OJ was a musician, record producer, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires.-Biography:Lee was born in Christiana in Manchester Parish to an Afro-Jamaican mother and a Chinese father Byron Lee OD, OJ (born Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee, 27...

    , Jamaician music pioneer; educated at St. George's College, Jamaica
    St. George's College, Jamaica
    St. George's College is a Roman Catholic high school in Kingston, Jamaica.-History:The school was founded on September 2, 1850 by a group of 21 Spanish Jesuits who had been expelled from Colombia because of their religious faith. The Colombian Government gave them approximately 9 hours to leave the...

  • Anthony James Leggett
    Anthony James Leggett
    Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS , aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983....

    , British professor of physics, educated at Wimbledon College
    Wimbledon College
    Wimbledon College is a government-maintained voluntary-aided Jesuit Roman Catholic high school for boys aged 11 to 19. The school is based at Edge Hill, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 "for improvement in living and learning to the greater glory of God and the common good"...

  • Georges Lemaître
    Georges Lemaître
    Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble...

    , Belgian priest and astronomer, Collège du Sacré Coeur, Charleroi, Belgium.
  • Elmore Leonard
    Elmore Leonard
    Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...

    , American novelist, University of Detroit Jesuit High School and University of Detroit
  • Pietro Leoni
    Pietro Leoni
    Pietro Leoni was a Jesuit priest from Italy who later worked in the Soviet Union. He was born in Italy and educated at the Russicum, a Jesuit seminary established to prepare Catholic priests for missionary work in Russia. In 1941 Leoni went along with an Italian regiment aiding the German invasion...

     (1909-1995) -- Italian priest of the Russian Catholic Church, survivor of the GULAG, author of Spio dei Vaticano. Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

  • G. Gordon Liddy
    G. Gordon Liddy
    George Gordon Liddy was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July–September 1971, during Richard Nixon's presidency. Separately, along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the Watergate burglaries of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in...

    , American political strategist, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • John T. Lis
    John T. Lis
    John T. Lis is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr. Lis was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for his research on protein templating in the propagation of gene activity.-Research:Dr...

    , American professor of molecular biology and genetics; 2000 Guggenheim Fellow; Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Vince Lombardi
    Vince Lombardi
    Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and...

    , Hall-Of-Fame coach for the Green Bay Packers
    Green Bay Packers
    The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

     -- Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Lope de Vega
    Lope de Vega
    Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature...

    , Spanish Baroque
    Spanish Baroque literature
    Spanish Baroque literature is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque.The literary Baroque took place in Spain in the middle of the Golden Age of Spanish Literature. Spain was governed in that period by Philip II, Philip III and Philip IV, the last reigning until 1665.During the previous...

     playwright and poet; educated at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid was the name of a Jesuit teaching institution in Madrid....

  • Eduardo López de Romaña
    Eduardo López de Romaña
    Eduardo López de Romaña y Alvizuri was President of Peru from 1899 to 1903. A respected member of the Peruvian Elite and López de Romaña Family, he was the first engineer to become President of the Republic, and one of several Presidents from the Civilista Party during the era of the "Aristocratic...

    , President of Peru; educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • Jose R. Lopez-Diaz, Puertorrican History and Social Studies High School Teacher; educated at the Colegio San Igancio de Loyola in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Federico García Lorca
    Federico García Lorca
    Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...

    , Spanish poet and playwright, attended Jesuit school as a boy in Grenada
  • Gabriel García Márquez
    Gabriel García Márquez
    Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

    , Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    n author and Nobel laureate
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

    , Jesuit Colegio San Jose in Barranquilla and Jesuit College in Bogotá, Colombia
  • Henri de Lubac
    Henri de Lubac
    Henri-Marie de Lubac, SJ was a French Jesuit priest who became a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, and is considered to be one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century...

    , French theologian, Gregorian University in Rome, Italy
  • Ruud Lubbers
    Ruud Lubbers
    Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 4, 1982 until August 22, 1994....

    , former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to...

    , Canisius college, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Peter Lynch
    Peter Lynch
    Peter Lynch is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments. Lynch graduated from Boston College in 1965 and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.-Fidelity:Lynch was hired as an...

    , American financial leader, Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

    , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts,
  • Patrick J. Leahy, United States Senator, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Nathan Lane
    Nathan Lane
    Nathan Lane is an American actor of stage and screen. He is best known for his roles as Mendy in The Lisbon Traviata, Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...

    , American actor, St. Peter's Preparatory High School, New Jersey
  • Bernard Lonergan
    Bernard Lonergan
    Fr. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, CC, SJ was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian widely regarded as one of the most important Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century....

    , Canadian professor and theologian, Gregorian University
  • Emmanuel Lubezki
    Emmanuel Lubezki
    Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, ASC, AMC , better known as Emmanuel Lubezki, is a Mexican cinematographer, known for his groundbreaking techniques and characteristic style. His nickname is "Chivo".-Early life and career:...

    , Cinematographer (The Birdcage
    The Birdcage
    The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski. The script was written by Elaine May...

    , Reality Bites
    Reality Bites
    Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Stiller. It stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Stiller, with major supporting roles played by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. The film was shot on location in Austin...

    , Sleepy Hollow
    Sleepy Hollow (film)
    Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones,...

    , Children of Men
    Children of Men
    Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last...

     and other Films), Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...


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  • Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
    Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
    Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga...

    , President of the Philippines, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    , Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Charles Mackerras
    Charles Mackerras
    Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...

    , Australian conductor
    Conducting
    Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

    , educated at St Aloysius' College in Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

  • Gustavo Madero Muñoz
    Gustavo Madero Muñoz
    Gustavo Enrique Madero Muñoz is a Mexican politician and businessman, great-nephew of the president Francisco I. Madero...

     - Mexican senator Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Lisa Madigan
    Lisa Madigan
    Lisa Madigan has been the 41st Attorney General of the US state of Illinois since 2003, when she became the first female attorney general for Illinois...

    , American attorney general, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
    Loyola University Chicago School of Law
    Loyola University Chicago School of Law is the law school of the Loyola University Chicago, in Illinois. Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago, within walking distance of the Water Tower , the John...

  • Michael Madigan
    Michael Madigan
    Michael J. Madigan is the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois...

    , American politician, St. Ignatius College Prep
    St. Ignatius College Prep
    Saint Ignatius College Prep is a private, coeducational Jesuit high school located in Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded in Chicago in 1870 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Belgian missionary to the United States. The school is coeducational, Catholic, college preparatory and sponsored by the...

    , Chicago, Illinois
  • Ettore Majorana
    Ettore Majorana
    Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who began work on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly in mysterious circumstances. He is noted for the eponymous Majorana equation and for Majorana fermions.-Gifted in mathematics:Majorana was born in Catania, Sicily...

    , Italian theoretical physicist, Istituto Massimo
  • Tak Wah Mak
    Tak Wah Mak
    Tak Wah Mak, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancer genetics...

    , Canadian immunologist, molecular biologist, and academic; educated at Wah Yan College
    Wah Yan College, Kowloon
    Wah Yan College, Kowloon is a Latin Rite Catholic secondary school for boys, located at 56 Waterloo Road, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon...

    , Kowloon
    Kowloon
    Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of...

    , Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

  • Louis Malle
    Louis Malle
    Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...

    , French film director
  • Jan Marek Marci
    Jan Marek Marci
    Jan Marek Marci , or Johannes Marcus Marci, was a Bohemian doctor and scientist, rector of the University of Prague, and official physician to the Holy Roman Emperors...

    , Bohemian mathematician, attended Jesuit college in Jindrichuv Hradec
  • Guido de Marco
    Guido de Marco
    Guido de Marco was a Maltese politician, who served as the sixth President of Malta from 1999 to 2004. A noted statesman and lawmaker, de Marco also served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Minister for Foreign Affairs.He is widely regarded as one of the great...

    , former president of Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

    ; attended St Aloysius' College in Malta
  • Subcomandante Marcos
    Subcomandante Marcos
    Subcomandante Marcos is the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation , a Mexican rebel movement. In January 1994, he led an army of Mayan farmers into the eastern parts of the Mexican state of Chiapas protesting against the Mexican government's treatment of indigenous...

     (né Rafael Guillén), Mexican leader of Zapatista Army, Instituto Cultural Tampico, Mexico
  • Wellington Mara
    Wellington Mara
    Wellington Timothy Mara was the co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death, and one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925...

    , American football entrepreneur, Loyola School and Fordham University
  • George Martin
    George Martin
    Sir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums...

    , British music producer, St Ignatius' College
    St Ignatius' College
    St Ignatius' College is a Catholic secondary school for boys, aged 11–18, located in Enfield, Middlesex. Formerly a grammar school, only accepting boys who had passed their Eleven plus exam, its educational philosophy was originally based upon the Jesuit precept of Ignatius of Loyola:Its current...

    , Enfield, London UK
  • Ignacio Martín-Baró
    Ignacio Martín-Baró
    Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J. was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest...

    , Jesuit priest and liberation theologian, Pontifical Xavierian University
    Pontifical Xavierian University
    The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is a private higher education institution founded in 1623. It is one of the oldest, most traditional, and prestigious Colombian universities, directed by the Society of Jesus, with its main facilities in Bogotá and a second campus in Cali...

  • Fr. Ivan Mikhailovich Martynov
    Ivan Mikhailovich Martynov
    Ivan Mikhailovich Martinov, born the 7 October 1821, at Kazan and died the 26 April 1894 at Cannes , was a Russian Jesuit priest...

    , SJ, Russian Catholic priest and expositor of Slavic spiritual and cultural tradition, Brugelette and Laval
  • Chris Matthews
    Chris Matthews
    Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC...

    , journalist; College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Roberto Matta
    Roberto Matta
    Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art....

    , Chilean painter
  • Fr. Juan Mateos , S.J., author on spirituality and professor of Eastern Liturgy Pontifical Oriental Institute
    Pontifical Oriental Institute
    The Pontifical Oriental Institute is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy....

  • Drea de Matteo
    Drea de Matteo
    Drea de Matteo is an American television actress, perhaps best known for her roles Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom Joey, as Angie Bolen on ABC's Desperate Housewives, and as Adriana La Cerva on the acclaimed HBO TV series The Sopranos, a role for which she won the Primetime Emmy...

    , Italian-American actress, Loyola School
  • Gregório de Mattos
    Gregório de Mattos
    Gregório de Mattos e Guerra was the most famous Colonial Brazilian Baroque poet. Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems, he was more well-known by his satirical ones, winning because of them the nickname "Boca do Inferno" .He is the patron of the 16th chair of the Brazilian Academy of...

    , major baroque poet of Brazil
  • Theodore McCarrick, American Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington D.C., Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

  • Joe McGinniss
    Joe McGinniss
    Joe McGinniss is an American author of nonfiction and novels. He first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President, 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon, and has authored 11 works since that time...

    , American author; College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • John McLaughlin
    John McLaughlin (host)
    John McLaughlin is an American television personality and political commentator. He created, produces and hosts the long-running political commentary series The McLaughlin Group as well as John McLaughlin's One On One....

    , American TV producer, Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

  • Joseph M. McLaughlin
    Joseph M. McLaughlin
    Joseph Michael McLaughlin is a federal appellate judge in the United States.Born in Brooklyn, New York. He received an A.B. from Fordham College in 1954, and was in the United States Army Corps of Engineers Captain from 1955 to 1957. He then received a LL.B. from Fordham University School of Law...

    , Senior Appellate Judge, U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Brooklyn Prep,Fordham College' and Fordham University School of Law
    Fordham University School of Law
    Fordham University School of Law is a part of Fordham University in the United States. The School is located in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and is one of eight ABA-approved law schools in that city.-Overview:According to the U.S. News & World Report, 1,516 J.D. students attend...

  • Gregan McMahon
    Gregan McMahon
    Gregan McMahon, CBE was an Australian actor and theatrical producer.McMahon was born in Sydney, elder son of John Terence McMahon, a clerk, and his wife Elizabeth, née Gregan. Both parents were emigrants from Ireland. McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Ignatius' College, Riverview...

     Australian actor and playwright, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

    ;
  • Mark McWatt
    Mark McWatt
    Mark McWatt is a Guyanese writer and educator.Born in Guyana, McWatt studied at the University of Toronto and Leeds University, where he completed a Ph.D...

    , Guyanese and Caribbean author and poet, educated at St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College is in Georgetown, Guyana, with a student population of over five hundred and a teaching staff of about forty.The College motto is ‘Aeterna Non Caduca’ .The school was opened in May 1866. It was an all boys' school.In the early years, the school was known as St...

    , Guyana
  • Pierre Méchain
    Pierre Méchain
    Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets.-Life:...

    , French astronomer and surveyor who made significant contributions to the early study of deep sky objects and comets; educated by Jesuits in his birthplace of Laon
    Laon
    Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...

  • Bob Menendez, American politician, Saint Peter's College
    Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
    Saint Peter's College is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic college in the United States. Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, it was founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus. Today, Saint Peter's College is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

    , Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Ismail Merchant
    Ismail Merchant
    Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

    , American/Indian film producer and director, Saint Xaviar's College, Mumbai(Bombay), India
  • Freddie Mercury
    Freddie Mercury
    Freddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...

    , British musician, attended St. Mary's High School http://www.stmarysssc.com/ in Mazagaon
    Mazagaon
    Mazagaon, also spelled Mazgaon and Mazagon , and pronounced by the Catholics as 'Mazgon' or 'Maz-a-gon' and the Marathi-speakers as Mazhgav. It is one of the seven islands of Mumbai. It is part of South Mumbai and can be reached by Byculla Station on the Central railway line and Dockyard Road...

  • Marin Mersenne
    Marin Mersenne
    Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics"...

    , French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist; educated at Le Mans and at the Jesuit College of La Flèche
  • Franz Mesmer
    Franz Mesmer
    Franz Anton Mesmer , sometimes, albeit incorrectly, referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal ...

    , German physician whose ideas spawned the development of hypnosis
    Hypnosis
    Hypnosis is "a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination."It is a mental state or imaginative role-enactment . It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary...

    . Studied at the Jesuit University of Dillingen
    University of Dillingen
    The University of Dillingen, at Dillingen an der Donau in southern Germany, existed from 1551 to 1803. It was located in Swabia, then a district of Bavaria.-Foundation:...

     and University of Ingolstadt
    University of Ingolstadt
    The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It consisted of five faculties: humanities, sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of which were contained in the Hoheschule...

    .
  • Lakshmi Mittal
    Lakshmi Mittal
    Lakshmi Narayan Mittal is an Indian steel magnate. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company....

    , London-based Indian businessman and industrialist, educated at St. Xavier's College
    St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
    St. Xavier's College is located in Kolkata, India, and is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India. It is an autonomous college affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It gained autonomy in July 2006, thus becoming the first autonomous college of...

     in Calcutta
  • Dominique Moceanu
    Dominique Moceanu
    Dominique "Domi" Helena Moceanu is an American gymnast who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S...

    , American gymnast, attending John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Molière
    Molière
    Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

    , father of modern French literature, Collège de Clermont, Paris
  • Juan Molina
    Juan Ignacio Molina
    Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer...

    , Chilean Jesuit and naturalist
    Natural history
    Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

    .
  • Luca di Montezemolo
    Luca di Montezemolo
    Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is an Italian businessman and Chairman of Ferrari. He was also Chairman of Fiat S.p.A from 2004 to 2010 and President of Confindustria from 2004 to 2008 and FIEG. He comes from an aristocratic family from the region of Piedmont in Italy...

    , Italian businessman, Istituto Massimo
  • Mario Monti
    Mario Monti
    Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who is Prime Minister of Italy, as well as Minister of Economy and Finance, since November 2011. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999...

    , Italian economist and politician, Istituto Leone XIII, Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

  • Jean-Étienne Montucla
    Jean-Étienne Montucla
    Jean-Étienne Montucla was a French mathematician.-Biography:Montucla was born at Lyon.In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise entitled Histoire des récherches sur la quadrature du cercle, and in 1758 the first part of his great work, Histoire des mathématiques, the first history of mathematics...

    , French mathematician, Jesuit College, Lyon
  • Michael Moriarty
    Michael Moriarty
    Michael Moriarty is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.-Early life:...

    , American actor, University of Detroit Jesuit High School
  • Paul Morphy
    Paul Morphy
    Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy...

    , American chess player, educated at Spring Hill College
    Spring Hill College
    Spring Hill College is a private, Roman Catholic Jesuit liberal arts college in the United States. It was founded in 1830 on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama, by Most Rev. Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, Alabama...

  • Massimo Moratti
    Massimo Moratti
    Massimo Moratti is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and President of Italian football team Football Club Internazionale Milano, and Chief Executive Officer of Saras S.p.A.-Life and career:...

    , Italian oil tycoon and owner of football club Inter Milan, Istituto Leone XIII, Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

  • Andrew Morrison
    Andrew Morrison
    Father Andrew Morrison was a Jesuit Catholic priest who devoted his life to the liberation of his fellow Guyanese countrymen from a long period of State dictatorship...

    , Guyanese journalist and Human Rights advocate, attended St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College is in Georgetown, Guyana, with a student population of over five hundred and a teaching staff of about forty.The College motto is ‘Aeterna Non Caduca’ .The school was opened in May 1866. It was an all boys' school.In the early years, the school was known as St...

  • George Moscone
    George Moscone
    George Richard Moscone was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California, US from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. Moscone served in the California State Senate from 1967 until becoming Mayor. In the Senate, he served as...

    , Mayor of San Francisco, assassinated in office, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco
  • Alonzo Mourning
    Alonzo Mourning
    Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. is a former American professional basketball player, who played most of his 15-year NBA career for the Miami Heat....

    , American basketball player, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Julian Morrow
    Julian Morrow
    Julian Francis Xavier Morrow is an Australian comedian and television producer from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of the satirical team The Chaser...

    , Australian comedian and radio host, St. Aloysius College
  • Robert Mugabe
    Robert Mugabe
    Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

    , President of Zimbabwe
  • Bill Murray
    Bill Murray
    William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...

    , American TV and movie star, Loyola Academy
    Loyola Academy
    Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school, located in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, it is one of 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education...

    , Wilmette and Regis University
    Regis University
    Regis University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic, Jesuit university in the United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1877, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

    ;
  • John Courtney Murray
    John Courtney Murray
    John Courtney Murray, , was an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, particularly focusing on the relationship between religious freedom and the institutions of a democratically structured modern...

    , American theologian, Xavier High, New York and Boston College
  • Joseph Murray
    Joseph Murray
    Joseph Edward Murray is a retired American plastic surgeon. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins on December 23, 1954....

    , American surgeon and Nobel laureate
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

    , College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Dikembe Mutombo
    Dikembe Mutombo
    Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo , commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA...

    , basketball player from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

    , Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • Jason Miller
    Jason Miller (playwright)
    Jason Miller was an American actor and playwright. He received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play That Championship Season, and was widely recognized for his role as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist...

    , American playwright and actor, University of Scranton
    University of Scranton
    The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Catholic and Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. It was elevated to a...

  • Barbara Mikulski
    Barbara Mikulski
    Barbara Ann Mikulski is the senior United States Senator from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. Mikulski, a former U.S. Representative, is the longest-serving female senator in U.S...

    , United States senator of Maryland, Loyola College in Maryland
    Loyola College in Maryland
    Loyola University Maryland is a Roman Catholic, Jesuit private university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus in 1852, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges...

  • Arthur Murphy
    Arthur Murphy
    Arthur Murphy , also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.-Biography:He was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French....

    , author, biographer and barrister, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; associate of Henry Thrale
    Henry Thrale
    Henry Thrale was an 18th century English Member of Parliament and a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Like his father, he was the proprietor of the large London brewery, H. Thrale & Co....

     and Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...

    ; Commissioner of Bankruptcy; coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction"; educated at the College of St. Omer
  • Kathleen A. Murphy
    Kathleen A. Murphy
    Kathleen A. Murphy is the President of Fidelity Personal Investing, a unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets...

    , CEO of ING Wealth Management, 2007 Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...


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  • Pius Ncube
    Pius Ncube
    His Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, until he resigned on September 11, 2007...

     Archbishop of Bulawayo, Human Rights Activist in Zimbabwe
  • Jerrold Nadler
    Jerrold Nadler
    Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Nadler is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1992. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district includes the west side of Manhattan from the Upper West Side down to Battery Park, including the site where the World Trade Center stood...

    , Jewish American politician, Fordham University School of Law
    Fordham University School of Law
    Fordham University School of Law is a part of Fordham University in the United States. The School is located in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and is one of eight ABA-approved law schools in that city.-Overview:According to the U.S. News & World Report, 1,516 J.D. students attend...

  • Steve Nash
    Steve Nash
    Stephen John "Steve" Nash, OC, OBC is a South African-born Canadian professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association . Nash enjoyed a successful high-school basketball career, and he was eventually given a scholarship by Santa Clara...

    , American basketball player, Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

  • Bob Newhart
    Bob Newhart
    George Robert Newhart , known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide...

    , American actor and comedian, St. Ignatius College Prep
    St. Ignatius College Prep
    Saint Ignatius College Prep is a private, coeducational Jesuit high school located in Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded in Chicago in 1870 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Belgian missionary to the United States. The school is coeducational, Catholic, college preparatory and sponsored by the...

     in Chicago and Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

  • Gavin Newsom
    Gavin Newsom
    Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician who is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California. Previously, he was the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, and was elected in 2003 to succeed Willie Brown, becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007...

    , American politician, attended Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

  • Enrique Norten
    Enrique Norten
    Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, is a Mexican architect and principal of the design firm TEN Arquitectos . Norten was born in Mexico City in 1954 where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in...

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect; Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Gustav Nossal
    Gustav Nossal
    Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA is an Australian research biologist.-Life and career:Gustav Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday...

    , Australian research biologist, St Aloysius' College, Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

  • Henri Nouwen
    Henri Nouwen
    Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen , was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books about spirituality.- Writing :...

    , Dutch Roman Catholic priest and professor of theology, Aloysius Gymnasium, The Hague
  • Garin Nugroho
    Garin Nugroho
    Garin Nugroho Riyanto , better known as Garin Nugroho, is an award-winning Indonesian film director.-Biography:Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June 1961. He was the fourth child of postal workers Soetjipto Amin and Mariah, who eventually had seven children...

    , Indonesian film director; attended Kolese Loyola
    Kolese Loyola
    Kolese Loyola is a co-educational Catholic high school in Semarang, Central Java. Kolese Loyola was established in 1949 by the Society of Jesus.- Mission and aims :...

     in Semarang
    Semarang
    - Economy :The western part of the city is home to many industrial parks and factories. The port of Semarang is located on the north coast and it is the main shipping port for the province of Central Java. Many small manufacturers are located in Semarang, producing goods such as textiles,...

    , Central Java
    Central Java
    Central Java is a province of Indonesia. The administrative capital is Semarang. It is one of six provinces on the island of Java.This province is the province of high Human Development in Indonesia and its Points Development Index countries is equivalent to Lebanon. The province of Central Java...

  • Aurelio Nuño Morales
    Aurelio Nuño Morales
    - Biography :Nuño studied at the faculty of architecture and urban planning of the Universidad Iberoamericana from 1967 to 1972.He worked together with Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz and Carlos Mijares Bracho Since 1984 he has worked together with Carlos Mac Gregor Ancinola, Clara de Buen Richkarday and...

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect; Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...


O

  • Conor Oberst
    Conor Oberst
    Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer , Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and Monsters of Folk.-Musical career:Oberst began...

     (Bright Eyes), American musician -- Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School , is a private, Jesuit college prep school founded in 1878 for young men. Centrally located in Omaha, Nebraska at 7400 Western Avenue, Prep is the largest Catholic high school in the state of Nebraska, USA with an enrollment of 1,038 young men...

    , Omaha, Nebraska

  • Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)
    Pat O’Brien was an American film actor with more than one hundred screen credits.-Early life:O’Brien was born William Joseph Patrick O’Brien to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as an altar boy at Gesu Church while growing up near 13th and Clybourn streets...

    , American actor -- Marquette University High School
    Marquette University High School
    Marquette University High School is a private, all-male, Jesuit, Roman Catholic school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit...

     and Marquette University
    Marquette University
    Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

    , Milwaukee

  • Chris O'Donnell
    Chris O'Donnell
    Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell is an American actor. He has played Robin in two Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell...

    , Actor, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  • Sir Anthony O'Reilly, Irish & Lions Rugby Union Teams and Businessman, Belvedere College, Dublin
  • Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole
    Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...

    , Irish actor
  • Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, American politician, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
  • Paul Otellini
    Paul Otellini
    Paul S. Otellini is an American businessman current president and chief executive of Intel. He is also on the board of directors of Google.- Early life and Education :...

    , President of Intel Corporation, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco
  • Charles Osgood
    Charles Osgood
    Charles Osgood is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, The Osgood File, has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. He is also known for being the voice of the narrator of Horton Hears a Who!, an animated film released in 2008, based on the book...

    , American media commentator, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Tomas Osmeña
    Tomas Osmeña
    Tomas "Tommy" de la Rama Osmeña is a Filipino politician currently serving as Congressman for the second district of Cebu City. Prior to his congressional term, he has also served as mayor of Cebu City from 1988 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2010.-Early life:Tomas is the son of the late Senator Sergio...

    , Filipino politician, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
  • Jacques Ozanam
    Jacques Ozanam
    Jacques Ozanam was a French mathematician.-Biography:Jacques Ozanam was born in Sainte-Olive, Ain, France....

    , French mathematician, studied at the Jesuit College in Rheims
  • Michael O'Shaughnessy, Chief Operating Officer, Walsh Jesuit, Stow, Ohio

P

  • Denis Papin
    Denis Papin
    Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker.-Life in France:...

    , French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering work with steam power; received education at the Jesuit school in Blois
  • Parokya ni Edgar
    Parokya ni Edgar
    Parokya ni Edgar is a Filipino band that was formed in 1993 by a group of college students. The band is famous and most lauded for its original rock novelty songs and often satirical covers of popular songs...

    , Filipino rock band, Ateneo High School
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Alexander Payne
    Alexander Payne
    Alexander Payne, born Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos is an American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.- Early life :...

    , American film writer-director, Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School
    Creighton Preparatory School , is a private, Jesuit college prep school founded in 1878 for young men. Centrally located in Omaha, Nebraska at 7400 Western Avenue, Prep is the largest Catholic high school in the state of Nebraska, USA with an enrollment of 1,038 young men...

    , Omaha, Nebraska
  • Denis Pétau
    Denis Pétau
    Denis Pétau , also known as Dionysius Petavius, was a French Jesuit theologian.-Life:Pétau was born at Orléans where he had his initial education; he then attended the University of Paris, where he successfully defended his theses for the degree of Master of Arts, not in Latin, but in Greek...

    , also known as Petavius, French Jesuit theologian
  • Francis Petre
    Francis Petre
    Francis William "Frank" Petre was a prominent New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin. He was an able exponent of the Gothic revival style, one of its best practitioners in New Zealand. He followed the Roman Church's initiative to build Catholic places of worship in Anglo-Saxon countries in...

    , New Zealand-born architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     based in Dunedin
    Dunedin
    Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

    ; educated at Mount St Mary's College
    Mount St Mary's College
    Mount St Mary's College is an independent coeducational boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, near Sheffield, England. It was founded in 1842 by Fr Randal Lythgoe, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order commonly known as the Jesuits. The...

     near Sheffield
    Sheffield
    Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

  • Jean Picard
    Jean Picard
    Jean-Felix Picard was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a...

    , French astronomer and priest, Jesuit College of La Flèche,
  • Donald Pinkel
    Donald Pinkel
    Donald Pinkel is an American medical doctor who specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology.He has made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia....

    , American medical doctor, pioneer in pediatric hematology, founding medical director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Graduate of Canisius High School and Canisius College, Buffalo NY
  • Pius XI, Pope, Gregorian University, Rome
  • Pius XII, Pope, Gregorian University, Rome
  • Paul VI, Pope, Gregorian University, Rome
  • Joe Paterno
    Joe Paterno
    Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno is a former college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions for 46 years from 1966 through 2011. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa," holds the record for the most victories by an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision football coach with...

    , American football coach, attended Brooklyn Prep
  • Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
    Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
    Aquilino "Nene" Quilinging Pimentel, Jr. is a Filipino politician who served as the President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2000-2001.-Delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention:...

     - Filipino senator, attended Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
  • Joseph Mary Plunkett
    Joseph Mary Plunkett
    Joseph Mary Plunkett was an Irish nationalist, poet, journalist, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.-Background:...

    , Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising
    Easter Rising
    The Easter Rising was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War...

    , for which he was executed; educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • Alexius Sylvius Polonus
    Alexius Sylvius Polonus
    Alexius Sylvius Polonus was a Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. He adopted the added name of Polonus, meaning "Pole" in Latin....

    , Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. Studied at the Jesuit College in Kalisz
    Kalisz
    Kalisz is a city in central Poland with 106,857 inhabitants , the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Nowe Skalmierzyce...

    .
  • Peter Pronovost
    Peter Pronovost
    Peter J. Pronovost is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery, Professor of Health Policy and Management...

    , Critical care physician, 2008 Time 100
    Time 100
    Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. First published in 1999 as a result of a debate among several academics, the list has become an annual event.-History and format:...

     and MacArthur Fellow, Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...


Q

  • Francisco de Quevedo
    Francisco de Quevedo
    Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo...

    , nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
    Spanish Golden Age
    The Spanish Golden Age is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. El Siglo de Oro does not imply precise dates and is usually considered to have lasted longer than an actual century...

    ; educated at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid
    Colegio Imperial de Madrid was the name of a Jesuit teaching institution in Madrid....


R

  • Stefan Raab
    Stefan Raab
    Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, television host, comedian and musician. Raab began his television career hosting the comedy show Vivasion in 1993 and has been hosting the late-night comedy show TV total since 1999. He became well-known in 1994 after composing a hit single spoofing...

    , German entertainer and comedian; graduate of the Aloisiuskolleg
    Aloisiuskolleg
    The Aloisiuskolleg is a co-educational, private and Catholic University-preparatory school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany with an affiliated boarding school directed by the Jesuits. The school is named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. It has an excellent reputation and is considered one of the most...

    , the Jesuit gymnasium in Bad Godesberg
    Bad Godesberg
    Bad Godesberg is a municipal district of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 till 1990 , the majority of foreign embassies to Germany were located in Bad Godesberg...

    , Germany
  • Karl Rahner
    Karl Rahner
    Karl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...

    , German theologian
  • Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu
    The Hindu
    The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...

    , Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College is a Jesuit institution in Chennai, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates and offers degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and commerce. It is an autonomous institution affiliated with the University of Madras.-History:...

  • Jorge Ramos, Journalist of Univision, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Mark Raper
    Mark Raper
    Mark Raper SJ AM is a Jesuit priest. He currently serves as President of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific , based in Manila....

    , Oceania Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus
    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...

    , St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
  • Hubert Reeves
    Hubert Reeves
    -External links: *...

    , Astrophysicist, College Jean-de-Brebeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private French-language educational institution offering secondary school and CEGEP college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It is boys-only in the first four years...

    , Montreal
  • Hans Riegel
    Hans Riegel
    Johannes Peter "Hans" Riegel is a German entrepreneur who has owned and operated confectionery maker Haribo since 1946.Born in Bonn, he is the oldest son of the company's founder Hans Riegel, Sr...

    , German - entrepreneur (Haribo
    HARIBO
    Haribo is a German confectionery producer, founded in 1920 by Hans Riegel Sr. The company headquarters are in Bonn, and the name is an acronym for Hans Riegel, Bonn....

    )
  • Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th-18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God....

    , Italian Jesuit priest who spent considerable time in China and the far east. Responsible for much of the introduction of Western culture to China
  • Cardinal Richelieu, French Statesman, Collège de Navarre, Collège de Calvi
  • Isabel Rico De Garcia, Curator/Art Historian (Instituto Cultural De Mexico), Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

    , Film Director and Producer (El callejón de los milagros
    El callejón de los milagros
    El callejón de los milagros is an award-winning 1994 Mexican film adapted from the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, written by Vicente Leñero and directed by Jorge Fons...

     and Directing Principio y Fin), Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Jose Rizal
    José Rizal
    José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda , was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by...

    , author, surgeon, linguist, led independence movement against Spanish rule in the Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

    , Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Maximilien Robespierre
    Maximilien Robespierre
    Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his...

    , French statesman, Collège de Clermont, Paris
  • Sam Roberts
    Sam Roberts
    Sam Roberts is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.-Life and career:...

    , Candaian singer
  • Fr. Joseph Roccosalvo, novelist, Orientalist, priest, playwright. Brooklyn Prep, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Jacques Rogge
    Jacques Rogge
    Jacques Rogge, Count Rogge , is a Belgian sports bureaucrat. He is the eighth and current President of the International Olympic Committee .-Life and career:...

    , chairman of the International Olympic Committee
    International Olympic Committee
    The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

    , Sint-Barbaracollege, Ghent, Belgium
  • Michel Rojkind
    Michel Rojkind
    Michel Rojkind=Michel Rojkind is a Mexican architect and former musician of Russian-Mexican descent.-Early Years and Education:...

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect and former musician of Russian descent, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Al Roker
    Al Roker
    Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. is an American television meteorologist as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays...

    , American TV meteorologist, Xavier High School, New York
  • Óscar Romero
    Óscar Romero
    Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chávez. He was assassinated on 24 March 1980....

    , Priest and martyr, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
  • Blessed Theodore Romzha
    Theodore Romzha
    Blessed Theodore Romzha was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1947. Assassinated by Stalin's NKVD, he was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.-Early life:...

     (1911-1947) -- Ruthenian Catholic Church's Bishop of Mukachevo, martyr under Joseph Stalin. Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

  • Fr. Heribert Rosweyde
    Heribert Rosweyde
    Heribert Rosweyde was a Jesuit hagiographer. His work, quite unfinished, was taken up by Jean Bolland who systematized it, while broadening its perspective. This is the beginning of the association of the Bollandists.-Research:He entered the Society of Jesus in 1588...

    , Jesuit priest and hagiographer, original compiler-writer-editor of vast amount of texts for the Acta Sanctorum
    Acta Sanctorum
    Acta Sanctorum is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saint's feast day. It begins with two January volumes, published in 1643, and ended with the Propylaeum to...

    later continued by the Bollandists, taught philosphy at Douai
    Douai
    -Main sights:Douai's ornate Gothic style belfry was begun in 1380, on the site of an earlier tower. The 80 m high structure includes an impressive carillon, consisting of 62 bells spanning 5 octaves. The originals, some dating from 1391 were removed in 1917 during World War I by the occupying...

    .
  • Manuel Roxas II, Philippine Senator, Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Pete Rozelle
    Pete Rozelle
    Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was the commissioner of the National Football League from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. Rozelle is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world....

    , American football commissioner, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  • Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter of the 17th century, Antwerp
  • Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
    Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
    Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez is a Spanish politician and mayor of Madrid. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party , he has previously been a leading figure in various local and national legislative bodies.-Personal life:...

    , Spanish politician, Jesuit Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo
  • Bill Russell, American basketball player, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  • Mark Russell
    Mark Russell
    Mark Russell is an American political satirist/comedian. He also sings and plays the piano.-Biography:...

    , American political comedian, Canisius High School
    Canisius High School
    Canisius High School is a Roman Catholic Jesuit private high school for young men. Canisius located at 1180 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York, United States, just north of the Delaware Avenue Historic District. Founded in 1870, the school has historical ties to Canisius College...

    , Buffalo, New York
  • Tim Russert
    Tim Russert
    Timothy John "Tim" Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview...

    , America politician and anchor man, Canisius High School
    Canisius High School
    Canisius High School is a Roman Catholic Jesuit private high school for young men. Canisius located at 1180 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York, United States, just north of the Delaware Avenue Historic District. Founded in 1870, the school has historical ties to Canisius College...

     and John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Joseph Russoniello
    Joseph Russoniello
    Joseph P. Russoniello is an American attorney who recently served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California after being appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate in 2007...

    , two-time U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
    U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
    The United States Attorney for the Northern District of California is the United States Attorney responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....

    ; Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Leo Ryan
    Leo Ryan
    Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre in 1978.After the Watts Riots...

    , Member of the U.S. House Of Representatives (D-California) who was assassinated at the outset of the Jonestown Massacre, Creighton University
    Creighton University
    Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...

     and Campion High School

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  • Juan Sabines Guerrero
    Juan Sabines Guerrero
    Juan José Sabines Guerrero is a Mexican politician, son of the former Governor of Chiapas, Juan Sabines Gutiérrez and nephew of the writer Jaime Sabines, until 2006 he was member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party that carried him to be Municipal President of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, but renounced...

    , Governor of Chiapas Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
    Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
    Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician....

    , Italian Jesuit and mathematician, studied at the Jesuit College in Milan
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...

    , French writer and aviator, educated at Jesuit schools in Montgré and Le Mans
  • Grégoire de Saint-Vincent
    Grégoire de Saint-Vincent
    Grégoire de Saint-Vincent , a Jesuit, was a mathematician who discovered that the area under a rectangular hyperbola is the same over [a,b] as over [c,d] when a/b = c/d...

    , 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
    Antonin Scalia
    Antonin Gregory Scalia is an American jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice...

    , American judge, Xavier High School
    Xavier High School (New York City)
    Xavier High School is a independent Jesuit university-preparatory high school for young men located at 30 West 16th Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1847, as the College of St. Francis Xavier by Father John Larkin, S.J...

     and Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

  • C.A. Scarpello, American Musician and Sociological Observer, St. Joseph's University
  • Christoph Scheiner
    Christoph Scheiner
    Christoph Scheiner SJ was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt....

    , German astronomer and Jesuit; attended the Jesuit Latin school in Augsburg and continued his studies in the Jesuit college at Landsberg
  • Edward Schillebeeckx
    Edward Schillebeeckx
    Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. He taught at the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He then continued writing. In his nineties, he still wanted to finish a major book about the Sacraments.He was a member of the Dominican Order...

    , American liberation theologian
    Liberation theology
    Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...

     and priest of the Dominican Order
    Dominican Order
    The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

  • Gaspar Schott
    Gaspar Schott
    Gaspar Schott was a German Jesuit and scientist, specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy, and known for his piety.-Biography:...

    , German physicist, mathematician and natural philosopher; studied under Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine...

  • Kurt Schuschnigg
    Kurt Schuschnigg
    Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Germany’s invasion of Austria, , in March 1938...

    , Austrian chancellor leading up to the Second World War, imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 as a political prisoner by Nazi Germany following the Anschluss
    Anschluss
    The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....

    ; educated at the Stella Matutina (Jesuit school)
    Stella Matutina (Jesuit school)
    Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria, was a Jesuit school from 1651–1773 and from 1856-1979.- Short history:The “Kolleg” began in 1649 but opened formally in 1651. In 1773, when Pope Clement XIV discontinued the order of the Society of Jesus, the school closed...

  • Vin Scully
    Vin Scully
    Vincent Edward Scully is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL-TV and KABC radio...

    , American sportscaster, started as a student broadcaster at Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

    , Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Egon Sendler
    Egon Sendler
    Father Egon Sendler is a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of Eastern Orthodox icons. He is also an author, teacher, theologian, and artist. Father Sendler is unusual in that he has achieved considerable respect from many Orthodox...

    , S.J. (born 1923) -- French priest, leading expert on Eastern Christian iconography Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

  • Antonio Serrano
    Antonio Serrano
    José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter.He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England and the Odin Teatre of Denmark...

    , Mexican film director/screenwriter (Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas
    Sexo, pudor y lágrimas
    Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is a Mexican film, the second of the so-called New Era of the Cinema of Mexico . It was the first film directed by Antonio Serrano....

    ), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
  • J. Francisco Serrano Cacho
    J. Francisco Serrano Cacho
    José Juan Francisco Alfonso Serrano Cacho is a Mexican architect.- Biography :Serrano was son of the architect Francisco J. Serrano. He studied at Universidad Iberoamericana until 1960. Afterwards he worked together with José Nava in the bureau of his father...

    , Mexican
    Mexican people
    Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

     Architect. (Universidad Iberoamericana
  • Bartlett Sher
    Bartlett Sher
    Bartlett Sher , is an American theatre director. He received both the 2008 Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for his direction of the Broadway revival of South Pacific. The New York Times has described him as "one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but...

    , Tony winning theater director, St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory
    St. Ignatius College Preparatory is a preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1855. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, St. Ignatius is one of the oldest secondary schools in the U.S. state...

    , San Francisco, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • John Sexton
    John Sexton
    John Edward Sexton is the fifteenth President of New York University, having held this position since May 17, 2002, and the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From 1988 to 2002, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, which during his deanship became one...

    ,President of New York University, Brooklyn Prep and Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Mark Shriver, CEO, Save the Children, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Don Shula
    Don Shula
    Donald Francis "Don" Shula is a former American football cornerback and coach.He is best known as coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the National Football League's only perfect season. Shula was named 1993 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated....

    , American football head coach, John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

  • Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
    Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
    Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was one of the first great intellectuals born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. A polymath and writer, he held many colonial government and academic positions.-Early career:...

    , Jesuit priest and one of the first great intellectuals born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain
    New Spain
    New Spain, formally called the Viceroyalty of New Spain , was a viceroyalty of the Spanish colonial empire, comprising primarily territories in what was known then as 'América Septentrional' or North America. Its capital was Mexico City, formerly Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire...

    . Studied at the Jesuit College in Tepoztlan
    Tepoztlán
    Tepoztlán is a town in the Mexican state of Morelos. It is located at in the heart of the Tepoztlán Valley. The town serves as the seat of government for the municipality of the same name. The town had a population of 14,130 inhabitants, while the municipality reported 41,629 inhabitants in the...

  • Paul Silas
    Paul Silas
    Paul Theron Silas is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats. He attended Creighton University, where he set an NCAA record for the most rebounds in three seasons and averaged 20.6 rebounds per game in 1963...

    , American basketball player and head coach, Creighton University
    Creighton University
    Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...

  • Curtis Sliwa
    Curtis Sliwa
    Curtis Sliwa is an American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.-Guardian Angels:...

    , American founder of the Guardian Angels
    Guardian Angels
    The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world.Sliwa originally created the...

    , Brooklyn Prep
    Brooklyn Preparatory School
    -History:Brooklyn Prep was a highly selective Jesuit preparatory school founded by the Society of Jesus in 1908. The school educated generations of young men from throughout New York City and Long Island until its untimely closure in 1972.The Prep was located on 1150 Carroll Street in the Crown...

  • Saravanan Sivakumar
    Saravanan Sivakumar
    Suriya is an Indian film actor. He starred in Tamil films, such as Nandha ,Unnai Ninaithu , Kaakha Kaakha , Pithamagan , Perazhagan , Ghajini , Vel , Vaaranam Aayiram , Ayan , Singam and 7aum Arivu . He made his Bollywood debut in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakht Charitra...

    , Tamil actor, Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College is a Jesuit institution in Chennai, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates and offers degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and commerce. It is an autonomous institution affiliated with the University of Madras.-History:...

  • Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer who has worked in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi cinema....

    , Indian cinematographer and film director; studied at the Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram
  • Tom Snyder
    Tom Snyder
    Thomas James "Tom" Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s...

    , American TV/radio talk show host -- Marquette University High School
    Marquette University High School
    Marquette University High School is a private, all-male, Jesuit, Roman Catholic school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit...

  • Demetrio Sodi
    Demetrio Sodi
    Demetrio Javier Sodi de la Tijera is a Mexican politician who has served in the upper and lower house of Congress...

     - Mexicana Politician, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Erik Spoelstra
    Erik Spoelstra
    Erik Spoelstra is an American professional basketball coach and the current head coach of the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat...

    , NBA head coach, graduate of Jesuit High School
    Jesuit High School
    Jesuits have founded and/or managed a number of institutions.Jesuit secondary schools include :-California:*Bellarmine College Preparatory...

     in Portland, Oregon
  • Charlie Stayers
    Charlie Stayers
    Sven Conrad Stayers was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1962....

    , Guyanese and West Indian cricketer, educated at St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College
    St. Stanislaus College is in Georgetown, Guyana, with a student population of over five hundred and a teaching staff of about forty.The College motto is ‘Aeterna Non Caduca’ .The school was opened in May 1866. It was an all boys' school.In the early years, the school was known as St...

    , Guyana
  • John Stockton
    John Stockton
    John Houston Stockton is a retired American professional basketball player who spent his entire career as a point guard for the Utah Jazz of the NBA from 1984 to 2003. Stockton is regarded as one of the best point guards of all time, holding the NBA records for most career assists and steals by...

    , American basketball player, Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

  • Sting, also known as Gordon Sumner, British musician
  • Peter Sutherland
    Peter Sutherland
    Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG is an Irish international businessman and former Attorney General of Ireland, associated with the Fine Gael party . He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel at the Irish Bar...

    , Ex DG of GATT, Ex Attorney General of Ireland, Chair LSE and board member of BP and Goldman Sachs, Gonzaga College
    Gonzaga College
    Gonzaga College is a private Roman Catholic boys' secondary school in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland , under the trusteeship of the Society of Jesus . Founded in 1950, the curriculum is traditional, with a broad general programme of subjects including Latin and Greek at junior cycle and the opportunity...

    , Dublin
  • Yi Su-gwang
    Yi Su-gwang
    Yi Su-gwang , also known as Lee Sugwang, was a Korean sarim, a military official, and a diplomat of the Joseon Dynasty. He was also an academic and an encyclopedist who created Jibong yuseol, the earliest Korean encyclopedia.-Early life:...

    , Korean scholar and a military officer; studied under Fr. Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci
    Matteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th-18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God....

     S.J.
  • Robert Surcouf
    Robert Surcouf
    Robert Surcouf was a famous French corsair. During his legendary career, he captured 47 ships and was renowned for his gallantry and chivalry, earning the nickname of Roi des Corsaires .- Youth :...

    , famous French privateer.
  • Jean-Joseph Surin
    Jean-Joseph Surin
    Jean-Joseph Surin was a French Jesuit mystic, preacher, devotional writer and exorcist. He is remembered for his participation in the exorcisms of Loudun in 1634-37....

    , French Jesuit mystic; educated at the Collège de Clermont
    Lycée Louis-le-Grand
    The Lycée Louis-le-Grand is a public secondary school located in Paris, widely regarded as one of the most rigorous in France. Formerly known as the Collège de Clermont, it was named in king Louis XIV of France's honor after he visited the school and offered his patronage.It offers both a...

  • Kenneth
    Kenneth
    -Origin:It is an anglicized form of either the Pictish name Ciniod or the Goidelic name Cináed, often thought to mean "fire-head" or "born of fire" , but ultimately derives from a shared prototype with Kennedy; Cunedagius, originally Cornish --after which was carried north to Valentia and borne by...

     Suzuki
    Suzuki
    is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...

    , American association executive and magazine editor, studied at Le College des Jesuites in Quebec City
    Quebec City
    Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

    , Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

  • Alexius Sylvius Polonus
    Alexius Sylvius Polonus
    Alexius Sylvius Polonus was a Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. He adopted the added name of Polonus, meaning "Pole" in Latin....

    , Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments; studied at the Jesuit College in Kalisz, Poland

T

  • André Tacquet
    André Tacquet
    André Tacquet was a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit Priest. His work prepared ground for the eventual discovery of the calculus....

    , Belgian mathematician whose work prepared ground for the eventual discovery of the calculus
    Calculus
    Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...

    . Educated at the Jesuit College in Antwerp
  • John Taaffe, Founder of the "I take offence of anything said or done", Clongowes Wood College
  • Fr. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft
    Robert F. Taft
    Robert F. Taft, S.J. is a former Professor of Eastern Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He has made numerous contributions to the history of Byzantine, Syriac and Armenian liturgy.His magnum opus is A History of the Liturgy of St.John Chrysostom , Rome, 1978-2000...

     , S.J., leading scholar on Byzantine and other Oriental Christian liturgies, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

    , Collegium Russicum
    Collegium Russicum
    The Collegium Russicum is a Catholic college in Rome dedicated to studies of the culture and spirituality of Russia....

    , Pontifical Oriental Institute
    Pontifical Oriental Institute
    The Pontifical Oriental Institute is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy....

  • Talleyrand, French diplomat; studied at the Jesuit College of La Flèche
    Prytanée National Militaire
    The Prytanée National Militaire, originally Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, is a French school managed by the military, offering regular secondary education as well as special preparatory school classes, equivalent in level to the first years of university, for students who wish to enter French...

  • Akbar Tanjung
    Akbar Tanjung
    Akbar Tanjung is an Indonesian politician who is a former chairman of Golkar party. He was the Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1999 to 2004...

    , Indonesian politician and former chairman of the Golkar
    Golkar
    The Party of the Functional Groups is a political party in Indonesia. It is also known as Sekber Golkar . It was the ruling party during Suharto's regime...

     party; attended Kanisius
    Kanisius
    Kolese Kanisius is a high school in Menteng, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It was established in 1927 by a group of Jesuit pastors, and is a Jesuit school...

     in Jakarta
    Jakarta
    Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

  • Torquato Tasso
    Torquato Tasso
    Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem...

    , Italian Renaissance Poet, Jesuit College Sorrento, Italy;
  • Claudio Teehankee, former Chief Justice of the Philippines
    Chief Justice of the Philippines
    The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines presides over the Supreme Court of the Philippines and is the highest judicial officer of the government of the Philippines...

    , Ateneo de Manila University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

  • Sister Rose Thering
    Sister Rose Thering
    Sister Rose Thering, O.P., was a Roman Catholic Dominican Religious Sister, who gained note as an activist against antisemitism, educator and a professor of Catholic-Jewish dialogue at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.Rose Elizabeth Thering was born in Plain, Wisconsin, the sixth of 11 children...

    , American Dominican nun
    Nun
    A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent...

     and activist; received PhD from St. Louis University
  • Clarence Thomas
    Clarence Thomas
    Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court....

    , Associate Justice of the American Supreme Court, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Jay Thomas
    Jay Thomas
    Jay Thomas is an American actor, comedian and radio talk show host.-Personal life:Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas. He was raised in his Italian American mother's Roman Catholic faith, although his father was Protestant....

    , American actor, comedian and radio talk show host, Jesuit High School
    Jesuit High School
    Jesuits have founded and/or managed a number of institutions.Jesuit secondary schools include :-California:*Bellarmine College Preparatory...

     in New Orleans
  • Mark Thompson
    Mark Thompson
    Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4...

    , Director-General of the BBC
    Director-General of the BBC
    The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC.The position was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC and is now appointed by the BBC Trust....

    , Stonhyurst College, UK
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere...

    , French Jesuit philosopher and anthropologist; educated at the Jesuit college of Mongré, in Villefranche-sur-Saône
    Villefranche-sur-Saône
    Villefranche-sur-Saône is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.It lies 1 mile west of the Saône River, and is around north of Lyon...

  • Alejandro Toledo
    Alejandro Toledo
    Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a politician who was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in April 2001, defeating former President Alan García...

    , President of Peru, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  • Gerardo Torrado
    Gerardo Torrado
    Gerardo Torrado Diez de Bonilla is an international Mexican football player, currently playing as a midfielder for Cruz Azul and is captain of the team. He is known as "El Borrego" for his bushy-like hair...

    , Notable Mexican footballer.
  • Evangelista Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.-Biography:Evangelista Torricelli was born in Faenza, part of the Papal States...

    , Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer
    Barometer
    A barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. Pressure tendency can forecast short term changes in the weather...

    .
  • Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...

    , American actor, attended Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School
    Rockhurst High School is a private, Roman Catholic, Jesuit, preparatory school for boys located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on the Missouri-Kansas border along State Line Road....

     and Marquette Academy
    Marquette University High School
    Marquette University High School is a private, all-male, Jesuit, Roman Catholic school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a member of both the National Catholic Educational Association and the Jesuit...

     but did not graduate
  • Daniel J. Travanti
    Daniel J. Travanti
    Danielo Giovanni "Daniel J." Travanti is an American actor best known for his starring role as Captain Frank Furillo in the 1980s television drama Hill Street Blues.-Biography:...

    , American TV and movie star, Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

  • Athanasius Treweek
    Athanasius Treweek
    Major Athanasius Pryor "Ath" Treweek was an Australian academic, linguist and code-breaker. He was the son of Walter Henry Treweek who came to Australia in the mid-1890s and Mary Treweek....

    , Australian academic, linguist and code-breaker, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

    ;
  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Former Prime Minister of Canada, College Jean-de-Brebeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
    Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private French-language educational institution offering secondary school and CEGEP college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It is boys-only in the first four years...

    , Montreal;
  • Donald Tsang
    Donald Tsang
    Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM, KBE is the current Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong....

    , Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
    Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
    Wah Yan College, Hong Kong is an eminent grant-in-aid secondary school in Hong Kong. It was founded on 16 December 1919, by Tsui Yan Sau Peter . It is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus...

  • David Tschanz, American Arabist, medical historian and author, Fairfield Prep, Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

  • Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, soldier, field marshall of the Holy Roman Imperial forces in the 30 Years' War, Cologne Jesuit Gymnasium.
  • Robin Tunney
    Robin Tunney
    Robin Jessica Tunney is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the movie The Craft and the television series Prison Break and The Mentalist.-Early life:...

    , American actress, St. Ignatius College Prep
    St. Ignatius College Prep
    Saint Ignatius College Prep is a private, coeducational Jesuit high school located in Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded in Chicago in 1870 by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J., a Belgian missionary to the United States. The school is coeducational, Catholic, college preparatory and sponsored by the...

    , Chicago, Illinois

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  • Peter Vaghi
    Peter Vaghi
    Peter Vaghi is an American Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and former lawyer associated with several noted American jurists. He is pastor of the in Bethesda, Maryland. He was previously pastor of the historic in Washington, D.C....

    , priest and former politician; attended Georgetown Prep, College of the Holy Cross, and the Pontifical Gregorian University
  • Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin
    Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin
    Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de la Vallée Poussin was a Belgian mathematician. He is most well known for proving the Prime number theorem.The king of Belgium ennobled him with the title of baron.-Biography:...

    , Belgian mathematician; studied at the Jesuit College at Mons
  • Antonio Maria Valsalva
    Antonio Maria Valsalva
    Antonio Maria Valsalva , was an Italian anatomist born in Imola. His research focused on the anatomy of the ears. He coined the term Eustachian tube and he described the aortic sinuses of Valsalva in his writings, published posthumously in 1740...

    , Italian anatomist who coined the term Eustachian tube
    Eustachian tube
    The Eustachian tube is a tube that links the nasopharynx to the middle ear. It is a part of the middle ear. In adult humans the Eustachian tube is approximately 35 mm long. It is named after the sixteenth-century anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi...

  • Jean Vanier
    Jean Vanier
    Jean Vanier, CC GOQ is a Canadian Catholic philosopher, humanitarian and the founder of L'Arche, an international organization which creates communities where people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them share life together...

    , Canadian philanthropist and founder of L'Arche
    L'Arche
    L'Arche is an International Federation dedicated to the creation and growth of homes, programs, and support networks with people who have intellectual disabilities...

    , which creates homes and provides day programs for those with developmental disabilities; educated at Loyola High School
    Loyola High School (Montreal)
    Loyola High School is a private Catholic school for boys in grades 7–11 located in Montreal . The School was established in 1896 by the Society of Jesus as part of Loyola College, at the request of the English Catholic community in Montreal. It is named after St...

     in Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

  • Adriaan van Roomen
    Adriaan van Roomen
    Adriaan van Roomen , also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a Flemish mathematician.-Life:Van Roomen was born in Leuven, the son of Adriaan Van Roomen and Maria Van Den Daele. He became a professor, and then travelled extensively in Europe.After studying at the Jesuit College in Cologne, Roomen...

    , Belgian mathematician; attended the Jesuit school in Cologne.
  • Pierre Varignon
    Pierre Varignon
    Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University in Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year....

    , French priest and mathematician; educated at the Jesuit College in Caen
  • Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ
    Cyril Vasiľ
    Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, S.J., is a Slovak Jesuit priest, professor and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and ordained bishop of the see of Ptolemais in Libya .Vasiľ was born in Košice, Slovakia...

    , S.J., (born 10 April 1965) is a Slovak Jesuit priest, professor and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
    Pontifical Oriental Institute
    The Pontifical Oriental Institute is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy....

    . Pontifical Oriental Institure Gregorian University*Ramaswamy Venkataraman, former President of India; educated at Loyola College
    Loyola College, Chennai
    Loyola College is a Jesuit institution in Chennai, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates and offers degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and commerce. It is an autonomous institution affiliated with the University of Madras.-History:...

     in Chennai
    Chennai
    Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

  • Josefina Vázquez Mota
    Josefina Vázquez Mota
    Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota . Mexican economist, businesswoman and politician, member of the National Action Party .-Family:...

    , Mexican politician, Universidad Iberoamericana
    Universidad Iberoamericana
    The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

  • Giambattista Vico
    Giambattista Vico
    Giovanni Battista ' Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist....

    , Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     philosopher, historian, and jurist
  • António Vieira
    António Vieira
    Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:Vieira was born in Lisbon to Cristóvão Vieira Ravasco, the son of a mulatto woman, and Maria de Azevedo. Accompanying his parents to Brazil in 1614, he received his education at the...

    , Portuguese Jesuit and writer; received his education at the Jesuit college at Bahia in Brazil.
  • Joseph Vijay
    Joseph Vijay
    Vijay is an Indian film actor and playback singer, who is based in the cinema of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar. After performing uncredited roles as a child actor in films produced by his father, he made his debut in a lead role in the 1992 film...

    , Tamil actor, Loyola College, Chennai
  • Vincenzo Viviani
    Vincenzo Viviani
    Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo.-Biography:...

    , Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli
    Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.-Biography:Evangelista Torricelli was born in Faenza, part of the Papal States...

     and a disciple of Galileo. Educated at Jesuit schools in his native Florence
  • Voltaire
    Voltaire
    François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...

    , French author and skeptical master of the Enlightenment, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France

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  • Dwyane Wade
    Dwyane Wade
    Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. nicknamed Flash or D-Wade, is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat. Awarded 2006 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, Wade has established himself as one of the most well-known and popular players in the league...

    , American basketball player, Marquette University
    Marquette University
    Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

  • Benjamin Walker
    Benjamin Walker
    Benjamin Walker is the truncated pen name of George Benjamin Walker, who also writes under the pseudonym Jivan Bhakar...

    , Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica in all its forms; educated at St. Xavier's College
    St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
    St. Xavier's College is located in Kolkata, India, and is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India. It is an autonomous college affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It gained autonomy in July 2006, thus becoming the first autonomous college of...

     in Calcutta
  • Jimmy Walker
    Jimmy Walker
    James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James , was the mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932...

    , mayor of New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    ; educated at Xavier High School
    Xavier High School (New York City)
    Xavier High School is a independent Jesuit university-preparatory high school for young men located at 30 West 16th Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1847, as the College of St. Francis Xavier by Father John Larkin, S.J...

  • Albrecht von Wallenstein
    Albrecht von Wallenstein
    Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein , actually von Waldstein, was a Bohemian soldier and politician, who offered his services, and an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men during the Danish period of the Thirty Years' War , to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II...

    , soldier, generalissimo, Imperial Holy Roman army during the latter part of the 30 Years' War, University of Olomouc*Donnie Walsh
    Donnie Walsh
    Joseph Donald Walsh Jr., better known as Donnie Walsh is a former professional basketball coach, and former president of basketball operations for the New York Knicks.-Biography:...

    , President of basketball operations for the New York Knicks and former general manager for the Indiana Pacers, Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

  • Francis Walsingham
    Francis Walsingham
    Sir Francis Walsingham was Principal Secretary to Elizabeth I of England from 1573 until 1590, and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster". Walsingham is frequently cited as one of the earliest practitioners of modern intelligence methods both for espionage and for domestic security...

    , Elizabethan Spy Master, University of Padua
  • Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington
    Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...

    , American film actor, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

  • Charles Waterton
    Charles Waterton
    Charles Waterton was an English naturalist and explorer.-Heritage and Life:"Squire" Waterton was born at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire to Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfield. He was of a Roman Catholic landed gentry family descended from Reiner de Waterton...

    , English naturalist and explorer; educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

     in Lancashire
  • Adam Weishaupt
    Adam Weishaupt
    Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati, a secret society with origins in Bavaria.-Early life:...

    , German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati
    Illuminati
    The Illuminati is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically the name refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776...

    ; educated at the University of Ingolstadt
    University of Ingolstadt
    The University of Ingolstadt was founded in 1472 by Louis the Rich, the Duke of Bavaria at the time, and its first Chancellor was the Bishop of Eichstätt. It consisted of five faculties: humanities, sciences, theology, law and medicine, all of which were contained in the Hoheschule...

  • Sir Frederick Weld
    Frederick Weld
    Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld, GCMG , was a New Zealand politician and a governor of various British colonies. He was the sixth Premier of New Zealand, and later served as Governor of Western Australia, Governor of Tasmania, and Governor of the Straits Settlements.-Early life:Weld was born near...

    , former Prime Minister of New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

    ; educated at Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

  • George Wendt
    George Wendt
    George Robert Wendt III is an American actor, best known for the roles of Norm Peterson and Tug Clarke on the television shows Cheers and Modern Men.-Early life:...

    , American actor - Campion Jesuit High School; Rockhurst University
    Rockhurst University
    Rockhurst University is a private, coeducational Jesuit university located in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1910 as Rockhurst College. The school adheres to the motto etched into the stone of the campus bell tower: "Learning, Leadership, and Service in the Jesuit Tradition." It is one of 28...

     (Kansas City, Missouri)
  • Edward Douglass White
    Edward Douglass White
    Edward Douglass White, Jr. , American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the...

    , ninth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Jesuit High School, New Orleans;
  • Willie White
    Willie White
    Willie White may refer to:* William C. White, son of Seventh-day Adventist Church prophetess Ellen G. White* William White, fictional character from the television series Doug* Willye White, Olympic athlete from the USA* Will White, baseball player...

    . Artistic Director, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College
    Clongowes Wood College is a voluntary secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the...

    ;
  • James White (politician)
    James White (politician)
    James White was an American physician, lawyer, and politician. He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana. He was a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory.White was born into a prosperous...

    , American physician, lawyer and politician; early settler in Tennessee and Louisiana; delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory; educated at the College of St. Omer
  • Malcolm Wilson, Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York, Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School
    Fordham Preparatory School is a private Jesuit all-boys high school located in the Bronx, New York City, with an enrollment of approximately 950 students. It is located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University....

  • Gerard Windsor
    Gerard Windsor
    Gerard Charles Windsor is an Australian author and literary critic. He was dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in both 1961 and 1962, where, like Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. He trained as a Jesuit from the age of 18 to 24. He studied Arts at the Australian National...

    , Australian author, St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    St Ignatius' College, Riverview
    Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys, located in Riverview, a small suburb situated on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

    , Sydney;
  • Anthony A. Williams
    Anthony A. Williams
    Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer for the District, managing to balance the budget and achieve a surplus within two years of...

    , American politician, educated at Loyola High School of Los Angeles
  • Edward Bennett Williams
    Edward Bennett Williams
    Edward Bennett Williams was a Washington, D.C. trial attorney who founded the law firm of Williams & Connolly and owned several professional sports teams...

    , American trial lawyer, College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Terry Wogan
    Terry Wogan
    Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL , or also known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship. Wogan has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career...

    , Irish Broadcaster, Crescent College
    Crescent College
    Crescent College Comprehensive SJ is a secondary school located on a section of 40 acres of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.- History :...

    , Limerick;
  • Dr. John Wozniak, professor and founding dean of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Education, Regis High School
    Regis High School
    Regis High School may refer to several schools in the United States:* Regis High School , Iowa* Regis High School * Regis High School * Regis High School...

    , NY

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  • Gordon Zubrod
    Gordon Zubrod
    Dr Charles Gordon Zubrod was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer. He was one of the recipients of the 1972 Albert Lasker Awards in recognition of his contributions to the field, amongst many other doctorates and awards.-Life and work:Dr...

    , American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy
    Chemotherapy
    Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....

     for cancer; alumnus of the Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School
    Georgetown Preparatory School is an American Jesuit college preparatory school for grades 9 through 12. It is the oldest all boys school in the United States, and the only Jesuit boarding school in the country...

  • Niccolò Zucchi
    Niccolo Zucchi
    Niccolò Zucchi was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist.As an astronomer he may have been the first to see the belts on the planet Jupiter , and reported spots on Mars in 1640....

    , Italian Jesuit astronomer and physicist.
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