# List of Regis High School alumni

This list of alumni of Regis High School (New York City) includes graduates and students who did not graduate.
* Vito Acconci (1940–2017) – performance artist and architect
* Norberto Barba (born 1963) – television and film director
* Adrian A. Basora (born 1938) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1993–95)
* Michael Bérubé (born 1961) – Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature, Pennsylvania State University
* Adrian P. Burke (1904–2000) – American lawyer, appellate judge (New York Court of Appeals), and politician.
* Kevin Burke – chairman, president, and CEO, Consolidated Edison
* James J. Busuttil (born 1958) – attorney, academic and human rights activist
* Frank Joseph Caggiano (born 1959) – Bishop of Bridgeport (Connecticut)
* Thomas Cahill (born 1940) – scholar and writer; author, Hinges of History series
* Timothy Chorba (born 1946) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1994–97)
* Bill Condon (born 1955) – director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
* Edward Conlon (born 1965) – New York Police Department police officer; bestselling author
* John M. Corridan (1911–1984) – Jesuit priest; organized crime fighter on the New York City waterfront (inspiration for Fr. Barry in On the Waterfront)
* Declan Cronin (born 1997) – major league baseball player
* John D'Agostino – exchange markets expert; subject of Ben Mezrich's Rigged
* John D'Emilio (born 1948) – academic, historian, and activist
* Lou DiBella (born 1960) – boxing promoter
* Kieran Donohue – college basketball coach
* John Donvan (born 1955) – journalist; ABC News Nightline correspondent
* Max Esterson (born 2002) – racing driver
* Anthony Fauci (born 1940) – infectious diseases physician, HIV/AIDS researcher; head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
* John D. Feeley (born 1961) – diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Panama (2016–18)
* Chuck Feeney (1931–2023) – businessman and philanthropist; did not graduate (attended for 1.5 years)
* Patrick Fitzgerald (born 1960) – U.S. Attorney; Central Intelligence Agency Leak Investigation Special Prosecutor
* Steve Fuller – founder of social epistemology; professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom
* Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) – comedian and television personality
* Robert Giroux (1914–2008) – publisher, Harcourt, Brace & Company and Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Frederick Gluck (born 1935) – managing director, McKinsey & Company (1988–1994)
* Pete Hamill (1935–2020) – writer and columnist; did not graduate (attended until age 16); awarded honorary diploma in 2010
* Charles Harbutt (1935–2015) – photographer
* Donald J. Harrington (born 1945) – former president, St. John's University; former president, Niagara University
* Andrew P. Harris (born 1957) – Member of Congress
* Timothy S. Healy (1923–1992) – president, Georgetown University and the New York Public Library
* Rich Hickey – creator of the programming language Clojure
* Robert Hilferty – filmmaker, journalist, and HIV/AIDS activist
* Steve Hirdt – executive vice president, Elias Sports Bureau
* Colin Jost (born 1982), head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor, Saturday Night Live; stand-up comedian
* Brian P. Kavanagh (born 1967) – New York State Senator
* John F. Keenan (born 1929) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
* Thomas C. Kelly (1931–2011) – archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville (Kentucky)
* Tom Kelly (1924–2008) – former Boston Celtics basketball player
* Phil Klay (born 1983) – winner, National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for Redeployment
* John Koeltl (born 1945) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
* David Lat (born 1975) – founder and managing editor, Above the Law legal blog
* John Leo (born 1935) – author; former columnist, U.S. News & World Report
* Thomas Lippman (born 1939) – journalist and author; Middle East specialist
* Chris Lowney (born 1958) – Christian author and speaker
* Gerard E. Lynch (born 1951) – circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
* John Maguire (1904–1989) – bishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
* Eugene T. Maleska (1916–1993) – editor, New York Times crossword puzzle
* Robert Marasco (1936–1998) – playwright
* Mark Mazzetti (born 1974) – Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer
* Ken McCarthy (born 1959) – Internet commercialization pioneer, educator, activist
* Mac McGarry (1926–2013) – host, the Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, Virginia, versions of the television student quiz show It's Academic
* John McGiver (1913–1975) – film and television character actor
* Lawrence M. McKenna (1933–2023) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
* Joseph M. McShane (born 1949) – president, Fordham University (2003–22)
* Ronald J. Mellor (born 1940) – scholar, ancient history and religion
* Arthur Minson Jr. (born 1970) – Co-CEO, WeWork
* Alexander J. Motyl (born 1953) – political scientist, Rutgers University
* Thomas Francis Murphy (1906–1995) – government official in the perjury trials of Alger Hiss
* John Nonna (born 1948) – 1972 Summer Olympics fencer
* Lucio Noto (born 1938) – petroleum executive
* Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965) – New York Times film critic; screenwriter (The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956))
* Edward J. O'Donnell (1931–2009) – bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette (Louisiana)
* Joseph A. O'Hare (1931–2020) – president, Fordham University; chairman, New York City Campaign Finance Board; editor, America magazine
* John O'Keefe (born 1939) – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014
* Francis Edward Peters (born 1927) – scholar of Middle East religion, New York University
* Patrick Quinlan – political activist and author
* Gerard Reedy (1939–2016) – president, College of the Holy Cross
* Ken Rosato – journalist; WABC-TV Eyewitness News anchor
* Sandro Santagata (born 1971) – clinical pathologist
* Lucy Sante (born 1954) – writer and critic; graduated as Luc Sante
* Jon Sciambi (born 1970) – sportscaster, ESPN
* Jim Sciutto (born 1970) – journalist; Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
* Joe Sheehan – founding member, BaseballProspectus.com; sports writer
* William F. Smith (1901–1950) – lawyer; member, New York State Assembly
* Brian Thomsen (1959–2008) – science fiction writer
* Robert Tomasulo (1934–2008) – computer scientist; devised the Tomasulo algorithm named for him
* Pablo S. Torre (born 1985) – sportswriter, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine; panelist, ESPN shows, including Around the Horn
* Mike Walczewski (born 1956) – public address announcer, New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden
* William Braucher Wood (born 1950) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (2003–07) and Afghanistan (2007–09)