# List of Long Island University people

Below are alumni, benefactors, presidents or chancellors, and other notable people associated with Long Island University.

## Alumni
### Art

* Bunny Hoest, cartoonist for the comic strip The Lockhorns

### Business

* Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates
* Howard Lorber, businessman; investor; CEO of Vector Group; chairman of Nathan's Famous and Douglas Elliman
* Jorge M. Perez, real estate developer, author and political fundraiser; founder of the Related Companies
* Adnan Polat, chairman of Football Club Galatasaray SK; CEO of Ege Seramik
* Terry Semel, former chairman and CEO of Yahoo!; on the board of directors of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, the Paley Center for Media, and the Guggenheim Museum
* John Utendahl, founder and owner of Utendahl Group, the largest African American-owned investment banking organization in the US
* Gary Winnick, founder of Global Crossing, Ltd., installing the first undersea cable linking the U.S. and Europe

### Judicial

* Rose Bird, first woman to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of California

### Media

* A. J. Benza, television show host, actor (Celebrity Fit Club)
* Ted David, senior anchor at CNBC Business Radio
* John Edward, television host and producer
* Arnold Hano, journalist, author, editor
* Jackee Harry, known for her roles on the television series 227, Another World, and Designing Women, and the Rodney Dangerfield movie Ladybugs
* Alfred R. Kahn, chairman and CEO, 4Kids Entertainment
* Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of ACME Communications
* Brian Kilmeade, television presenter and current co-host of Fox and Friends and Brian the Judge
* Lynda Lopez, news anchor; sister of Jennifer Lopez
* Nancy Hicks Maynard, first black female reporter for the New York Times; she and her husband are the first African Americans to own a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper, Oakland Tribune; they cofounded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
* Burl Osborne, former chairman of the Associated Press and former publisher of the Dallas Morning News
* Sibila Vargas, news anchor
* Larry Wachtel, the "Voice of Wall Street"; former senior vice president at Wachovia; financial analyst at Prudential Financial; respected financial markets commentator on WINS (AM) radio in New York City

### Medicine and health

* Ruth Kirschstein, former acting director of the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; namesake of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards

### Performing arts

* Ed Lauter, actor
* Dina Meyer, actress
* Nicholas Pileggi, screenwriter and author
* Michael Tucci, actor
* Denise Vasi, actress

### Politics

* Tim Bishop, representative of the State of New York's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress
* Leon Bogues, former senator who represented the 29th District in the New York State Senate
* Mevlut Cavusoglu, incumbent Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Steven Cymbrowitz, representative of the 45th District in the New York State Assembly
* Tuariki Delamere, former member of parliament for the Eastern Maori (now Ikaroa-Rāwhiti) electorate in the Parliament of New Zealand and cabinet minister, including Minister of Immigration
* Katuutire Kaura, member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia; leader of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia
* Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh
* Tom Ognibene, former representative of the 30th City Council District in the New York City Council and New York City mayoral candidate
* Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
* L. Harvey Smith, representative of the 31st District in the New Jersey General Assembly
* Fred Thiele, representative of the 2nd District in the New York State Assembly

### Sports and recreation

* Mooley Avishar (born 1947), Israeli basketball player
* Hank Beenders, first non-American to play in the NBA Finals
* Frank Catalanotto, retired Major League Baseball outfielder
* John Collins, former president and chief executive officer of the NFL Cleveland Browns
* Daniel de Oliveira, Rookie of the Year 1987, Northeast Conference; first LIU Blackbird soccer player to play with DC United in 1995 Major League Soccer, two-time winner MVP Colin Fowles Trophy, 1987 and 1990; coach of the Venezuelan Youth 15 and 17 National Teams
* Ray Felix, second African American to be named an NBA All-Star; the NBA's first dominant African-American center
* Frido Frey, first German to play in the NBA
* Sid Gordon, two-time All Star major league baseball player
* David Hicks (born 1988), basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Charles Rahmel Jones, played for the NBA's Chicago Bulls
* Dolly King, one of the rare black basketball players in the National Basketball League, predecessor to the NBA
* Barry Leibowitz (born 1945), American-Israeli basketball player in the American Basketball Association and the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Joe Machnik, elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on the 2017 builder ballot
* Steve Nisenson, basketball player
* Frank Pia, inventor of the Pia Carry
* Ossie Schectman, member of the original New York Knickerbockers in their inaugural NBA season in 1946; inductee in the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame
* Tazz (Peter Senerchia), also known as Tazz in WWE, wrestler and commentator, ECW and TNA

## Notable faculty
### Past

* Vincent de Tourdonnet, one of Canada's foremost writers of musical theatre
* Pee Wee Kirkland, former street basketball player from New York City; taught the "Philosophy of Basketball Coaching"
* Gerda Lerner, pioneer of women's history as an academic discipline
* Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, mathematician and author
* Marysa Navarro, historian

### Present

* Bob Brier, noted Egyptologist and one of the world's leading experts on mummies