# List of Widener University alumni

Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. Following is an incomplete list of its notable alumni.

## Arts

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany | | | Artist and designer | |

## Business

| Name | Notability |
| Eugene C. Lewis | Businessman, engineer, and chairman of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway |
| Edwin Harrison McHenry | Vice-president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the Consolidated Railway |
| Leslie C. Quick Jr. | founder Quick & Reilly Inc. |
| Cyrus Tang | businessman and philanthropist |

## Clergy

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Howard Meeks | | | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan | |

## Education

| Name | Notability |
| Robert Dorsey Coale | Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology and Dean of the Physics Faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. |
| James T. Harris III | president of the University of San Diego and Widener University |
| Ericka Hart | former adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and sex educator |
| Kathleen Hetherington | president of Howard Community College |
| George Michael | Historian, political scientist, writer, and professor at Westfield State University |

## Entertainment

| Name | Notability |
| Benjamin P. Ablao Jr. | Independent filmmaker and actor |
| Matthew McGrory | The world's tallest actor |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Legendary Hollywood director |
| Burt Mustin | actor, Gus the Fireman on Leave it to Beaver |
| Dan Yemin | musician |
| H.Foley | Comedian |

## Law

| Name | Notability |
| Peter J. Barnes III | New Jersey Superior Court judge and New Jersey Senate |
| Aimee Belgard | New Jersey Superior Court judge |
| Carl Danberg | Attorney General of Delaware, Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction, and Brigadier general in the Delaware Army National Guard |
| Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina | associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court |
| Alina Habba | lawyer |
| Don McGahn | White House Counsel |
| Jim Schultz | Associate White House Counsel |
| Lee Solomon | associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey |
| Margaret M. Sweeney | senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims |
| David C. Weiss | United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Frederick J. Chiaventone | | Historian, award-winning novelist, screenwriter |
| David M. Hall | | writer, editor, and corporate trainer |
| Tim Newby | 1996 | writer, author |
| Brent Staples | 1973 | New York Times editorial writer and author of Parallel Time |
| Brian Tierney | | publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News |
| Louis Weitzenkorn | | writer, newspaper editor, and playwright |

## Military

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Irving J. Carr | | | U.S. Army Major General |
| Carl Danberg | | | Brigadier General in the Delaware Army National Guard, Attorney General of Delaware, and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction |
| Thomas D. Finley | 1911 | High school | U.S. Army Major general |
| Terry Halvorsen | | | Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer. |
| Frederic E. Humphreys | | | first American military pilot |
| Benjamin Ralph Kimlau | | | World War II hero |
| Charles F. B. Price | | | Lieutenant General of the United States Marines and Legion of Merit recipient |
| John H. Tilelli Jr. | 1963 | | United States Army four-star general |

## Politics

| Name | Notability |
| Dawn Marie Addiego | New Jersey state senator |
| Richard Alloway | Pennsylvania state senator |
| Jesse Matlack Baker | Pennsylvania State Representative and Pennsylvania State Senator |
| Truxtun Beale | United States Minister to Persia and United States Minister to Greece |
| David J. Brightbill | Pennsylvania State Senator |
| Chris Brown | New Jersey Senate and New Jersey General Assembly |
| Chris A. Brown | New Jersey Senator |
| Michael A. Brown | Council of the District of Columbia |
| John H. Carrington | North Carolina Senate |
| Mark B. Cohen | Pennsylvania General Assembly |
| Carolyn Comitta | Pennsylvania State Senate and Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Drew Crompton | Political consultant |
| William J. Crow | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Joseph DeFelice | former chair of the Philadelphia Republican Party |
| Bryan Cutler | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Sam Fiocchi | New Jersey General Assembly |
| Tom Gannon | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Dianne Herrin | Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Mayor of West Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Tom Houghton | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Wayne Langerholc | , Pennsylvania State Senator |
| Walter Francis Layer | Pennsylvania State Representative |
| John Linder | Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Mike Missanelli | sports journalist and host for ESPN |
| Patrick J. Murphy | United States House of Representatives and United States Secretary of the Army |
| D. Lane Powers | United States House of Representatives |
| Brian Presk | former legislative staffer and government relations professional |
| Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard | Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Robert J. Smith II | New Jersey General Assembly |
| Gerald J. Spitz | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Todd Stephens | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
| Terry Van Horne | Pennsylvania House of Representatives |

## Science and technology

| Name | Notability |
| Curtis Henderson | pioneer in the practice of cryonics |
| Brendan Kehoe | author of Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide and software developer |
| Sylvanus Morley | an archaeologist who led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution |
| Max C. Starkloff | Physician and Health Commissioner of St. Louis |
| Frank Wilcoxon | chemist and statistician |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Dan Borislow | | Entrepreneur and sports team owner |
| Clarence C. Combs Jr., | | polo player |
| Tom Deery | | College Football Hall of Fame inductee |
| Joe Fields | | New York Jets all-pro center |
| Billy "White Shoes" Johnson | 1974 | NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, College Football Hall of Fame inductee |
| Jamarr Johnson | | professional basketball player, 2x IBL Champion, and 2x IBL scoring leader |
| Phil Martelli | 1976 | former St. Joseph's University head basketball coach |
| William A. Nimick | | Professional baseball team owner and president |
| Pat Quinn | | former NHL Coach and General Manager |
| Roy Sherid | | Pitcher for New York Yankees |
| Bill Stern | | Newsreel and sports commentator |
| Bob Swank | | football coach |
| William Wesley | | advisor for the New York Knicks |