List of Adelphi University people

Notable people of Adelphi University, a private university in Garden City, New York, include prominent politicians, entertainers, athletes, and others.

Alumni

• Gary Dell'Abate ("Baba Booey") (b. 1961) – producer of The Howard Stern Show
• Joe Abbenda (b. 1939) – former Mr America and Mr Universe
• Chris Armas (b. 1972) – professional soccer player, Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer and Adelphi women's soccer coach
• Michael Balboni (b. 1959) – Deputy Secretary for Public Safety for the State of New York
• Bob Beamon (b. 1946) – American track and field athlete, world record holder in long jump
• Justin Vivian Bond – actor, cabaret singer, named MacArthur Fellow 2024
• Ron Bruder – entrepreneur who runs Middle East education non-profits, named on the Time 100
• Dave Cayemitte – former soccer player, financial analyst
• Melanie Chartoff – actress and comedienne
• Linda Cimino – college basketball coach
• Chuck Connors – athlete and actor
• Nick Cummings – Ph.D. past president of the American Psychological Association and founding board chairman of Care Integra, and author
• Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour; b. 1960) – musician, author, lecturer, founder and frontman of the hip-hop group Public Enemy
• Vyvyan Donner – fashion editor, film director, screenwriter, theatrical costume designer and caricaturist^[1]
• Hazel Dukes – civil rights activist
• Meredith Eaton-Gilden – psychotherapist and actress
• Paul Ekman – psychologist
• Clara Fasano – sculptor
• Flavor Flav – rapper, member of rap group Public Enemy
• Ida M. Flynn (1942–2004) — American computer scientist, textbook author, and professor
• John Forslund – television play-by-play announcer for the Seattle Kraken of the NHL
• Karen Fraction – Broadway dancer and actress
• Charles J. Fuschillo Jr. – New York State Senator, 8th District
• Arie Gill-Glick – Israeli Olympic runner
• Malika Grayson – engineer, speaker, and author
• Wes Green – professional lacrosse player, Los Angeles Riptide of Major League Lacrosse, and San Jose Stealth of National Lacrosse League
• Alexander Greendale – playwright and civic leader^[2]
• Sean Hannity – Fox News host.
• Alice Hoffman – author
• Earlene Hill Hooper – New York State Assembly Assemblywoman, 18th District
• Jonathan Larson – creator of the Broadway musical Rent
• Michael Lindsay – actor and voice artist
• Suzanne Luna – producer and director on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• Gee Malik Linton – director and screenwriter
• Leona Marlin-Romeo – 5th Prime Minister of Sint Maarten
• Gregory W. Meeks – congressman from New York, 6th District
• Edward J. Megarr – United States Marine Corps major general
• Sal Mineo — actor, Academy Award-nominee
• Donna Orender (née Geils; born 1957) – women's pro basketball league all-star and former WNBA president
• Carmen Ortiz – former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
• Billy Phillips – professional soccer player and coach
• Chad Prince (b. 1979) – professional soccer player and coach
• Carolynn Reid-Wallace (b. 1942) – 13th president of Fisk University (2001–2003); assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education (1991–1993)
• Ron Robinson – chemist
• Todd Robinson — director, screenwriter
• Dinelia Rosa – psychologist and professor
• Rony Schneider – Israeli professional soccer player
• Erin Stern – IFBB fitness professional and figure competitor
• Gary Sullivan – USL professional soccer player, Long Island Rough Riders
• Helen Rand Thayer (1863–1935), social reformer
• Al Trautwig – sports announcer, member of the Adelphi Athletics Hall of Fame
• Mary L. Trump – psychologist and author, niece of Donald J. Trump
• Rebecca Tobey – sculptor
• Edolphus Towns (b. 1934) – congressman from New York, 10th District
• Nicholas Turturro — actor
• Steven Vincent – Broadway choreographer, dancer, and teacher
• Max Weinberg (b. 1951) – drummer and television personality
• Ruth Fanshaw Waldo - Advertising executive, member of the Adelphi University board of trustees and namesake of Waldo Hall^[3]
• Isuri Wijesundara – actress
• Robert B. Willumstad – chairman and CEO, American International Group
• Mike Windischmann (b. 1965) – soccer, captain of the 1990 United States World Cup team
• Theresa Wolfson (1897–1972) – labor economist and educator, won the John Dewey Award of the League for Industrial Democracy
• Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963) – author of children's literature, named MacArthur Fellow 2020
• John D. Wren – president, CEO, and chairman of the Omnicom Group
• Roby Young (b. 1942) – Israeli international soccer player, and captain of Hapoel Haifa

Faculty

Ruth Westheimer

• Al Davis (1929–2011), former line coach for the Adelphi College football team 1950–51
• Loren Hightower (1927–2017) – dancer, Metropolitan Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre; regular performer with the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway musicals
• Allen Krebs, sacked for expressing political views in class and went on to found the Free University of New York
• William Cranston Lawton (1853–1941), professor of Greek
• Jerry March (1929–1997), organic chemist and professor of chemistry; authored March's Advanced Organic Chemistry text
• Paul Mattick Jr. (b. 1944), professor and chair of philosophy. Author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism. Son of Paul Mattick Sr.
• Paul Moravec, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner in music composition
• Frances Perkins, professor of sociology, Labor Secretary under Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Lawrence Raphael, professor of communication sciences and disorders
• Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth") German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
• Jacques P. Barber Dean and Professor of Psychology