67 Notable alumni of
Manhattan College

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Manhattan College is 857th in the world, 314th in North America, and 293rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 67 notable alumni from Manhattan College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Rudy Giuliani

    Rudy Giuliani
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    lawyerwriterpoliticianentrepreneur
    Biography

    Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.

  2. James Patterson

    James Patterson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    writeractorphilanthropistnovelistadvertising person
    Biography

    James Brendan Patterson is an American author. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch & Wizard, Private and Middle School series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels. His books have sold more than 425 million copies, and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. In 2016, Patterson topped Forbes's list of highest-paid authors for the third consecutive year, with an income of $95 million. His total income over a decade is estimated at $700 million.

  3. Barnard Hughes

    Barnard Hughes
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1915-2006 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes, known professionally as Barnard Hughes, was an American actor of television, theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder.

  4. Joseph Campanella

    Joseph Campanella
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1924-2018 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
    Biography

    Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was best remembered for his roles as Joe Turino on Guiding Light from 1959 to 1962, Lew Wickersham on the detective series Mannix from 1967 to 1968, Brian Darrell on the legal drama The Bold Ones: The Lawyers from 1969 to 1972, Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1992, co-host of Science International from 1976 to 1979, and his recurring role as Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.

  5. Ryan Hall

    Ryan Hall
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    mixed martial arts fighter
    Biography

    Ryan Hall is an American professional mixed martial artist and instructor of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, currently competing in the featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is known for a number of competitive achievements, ranging from Mundial and ADCC victories to dozens of Grapplers Quest championships. He is the winner of The Ultimate Fighter Season 22.

  6. Dennis Day

    Dennis Day
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1916-1988 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    television actormilitary personnelradio personalitysingeractor
    Biography

    Dennis Day was an American actor, comedian and singer. He was of Irish descent.

  7. Glenn Hughes

    Glenn Hughes
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1950-2001 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Glenn Michael Hughes was an American singer who was the original "Leatherman" character in the disco group Village People from 1977 to 1996.

  8. Mike Mazurki

    Mike Mazurki
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1907-1990 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    television actorfilm actoractorprofessional wrestler
    Biography

    Mike Mazurki was a Ukrainian-American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in more than 142 films. Although educated as an attorney, his hulking 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) presence, craggy face, and croaking voice had him often typecast as brainless athletes, tough guys, thugs, and gangsters. Memorable roles included Moose Malloy in Murder, My Sweet (1944), Splitface in Dick Tracy (1945), Yusuf in Sinbad the Sailor (1947), and "The Strangler" in Night and the City (1950). He was the founder and first president of the Cauliflower Alley Club.

  9. Raymond Kelly

    Raymond Kelly
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Raymond Walter Kelly is the longest-serving Commissioner in the history of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. According to its website, Kelly, a lifelong New Yorker, had spent 45 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and again from 2002 until 2013. Kelly was the first man to rise from Police Cadet to Police Commissioner, holding all of the department's ranks, except for Three-Star Bureau Chief, Chief of Department and Deputy Commissioner, having been promoted directly from Two-Star Chief to First Deputy Commissioner in 1990. After his handling of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, he was mentioned for the first time as a possible candidate for FBI Director. After Kelly turned down the position, Louis Freeh was appointed.

  10. Joseph Maguire

    Joseph Maguire
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in Manhattan College
    1969-1974 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    Occupations
    military officerexecutive
    Biography

    Joseph Maguire is an American officer who served as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Donald Trump. He retired from the United States Navy as a vice admiral in 2010 after 36 years of military service. Prior to retiring from active duty, he was the deputy director for strategic operational planning at National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

  11. Chang Myon

    Chang Myon
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1899-1966 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    journalistteacherpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    Chang Myon was a South Korean statesman, educator, diplomat, journalist and social activist as well as a Roman Catholic youth activist. He was the only prime minister of the parliamentary Second Republic. In addition, during the First Republic he was the fourth and last vice president of South Korea. His art name was Unseok (운석). His English name was John Chang Myon (baptismal name, surname, given name, respectively).

  12. Hugo Montenegro

    Hugo Montenegro
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1925-1981 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    composerconductorfilm score composer
    Biography

    Hugo Mario Montenegro was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best-known work is interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone's main theme from the 1966 film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He composed the score for the 1969 Western Charro!, which starred Elvis Presley.

  13. Henry Petroski

    Henry Petroski
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-2023 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    engineerhistorianuniversity teachercivil engineer
    Biography

    Henry Petroski was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, toothpicks, and silverware. His first book was made into the film When Engineering Fails. He was a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism.

  14. Pat Kirwan

    Pat Kirwan
    Occupations
    coach
    Biography

    Pat Kirwan is a former American football coach. He began his NFL career in 1972 after coaching high school and college football.

  15. Lou Castro

    Lou Castro
    Born in
    Colombia Flag Colombia
    Years
    1876-1941 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Luis Miguel Castro, nicknamed "Jud" and "Count", was a professional baseball infielder who was born in Medellín, Colombia. He is considered the first Latin American to play in recognized Major League Baseball. Castro was a second baseman who played 42 games with the Philadelphia Athletics in their pennant-winning 1902 season.

  16. David Ferrucci

    David Ferrucci
    Occupations
    artificial intelligence researcher
    Biography

    David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist who served as the principal investigator of a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers between 2007 and 2011 to the development of the Watson computer system, which won the television quiz show Jeopardy!.

  17. Bill Owens

    Bill Owens
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Manhattan College
    In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    Occupations
    politicianacademiclawyer
    Biography

    William Lewis Owens is an American attorney and former U.S. Representative from New York, a post he held from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serves on the advisory board of the Canadian American Business Council. The district he represented, the state's largest and most rural, includes most of the North Country, as well as the northern suburbs of Syracuse.

  18. Joseph M. Tucci

    Joseph M. Tucci
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    international forum participantentrepreneur
    Biography

    Joseph M. Tucci, more popularly known as Joe Tucci, is an American businessman. He is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of EMC Corporation.

  19. Peter J. Denning

    Peter J. Denning
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    engineercomputer scientistuniversity teacheropinion journalist
    Biography

    Peter James Denning is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which addressed thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory management policies. He is also known for his works on principles of operating systems, operational analysis of queueing network systems, design and implementation of CSNET, the ACM digital library, and codifying the great principles of computing. He has written numerous influential articles and books, including an overview of fundamental computer science principles, computational thinking, and his thoughts on innovation as a set of learnable practices.

  20. Patrick Joseph Hayes

    Patrick Joseph Hayes
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1867-1938 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    Catholic bishopCatholic priest
    Biography

    Patrick Joseph Hayes was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1919 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924.

  21. Roman Zvarych

    Roman Zvarych
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Roman Mykhailovych Zvarych is a Ukrainian politician. A former United States citizen, he was one of the first people to relinquish that citizenship in order to take up Ukrainian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

  22. Hugh J. Grant

    Hugh J. Grant
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1858-1910 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Hugh John Grant served as the 88th mayor of New York City for two terms from 1889 to 1892. First inaugurated at age 30, he remains the youngest mayor in the city's history. He was one of the youngest mayors of a major American city, and was the second Roman Catholic mayor of New York City.

  23. Michael J. Flynn

    Michael J. Flynn
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-.. (age 90)
    Occupations
    academiccomputer scientistuniversity teacherelectrical engineer
    Biography

    Michael J. Flynn is an American professor emeritus at Stanford University.

  24. George Mundelein

    George Mundelein
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1872-1939 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    Catholic bishopCatholic priest
    Biography

    George William Mundelein was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1915 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924.

  25. William Bourke Cockran

    William Bourke Cockran
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1854-1923 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William Bourke Cockran, commonly known as Bourke Cockran or Burke Cochran in contemporary reports, was an Irish-American politician and orator. He served as a United States representative from the East Side of Manhattan for seven terms.

  26. José M. Serrano

    José M. Serrano
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    José Marco Serrano is a member of the New York State Senate from the 29th District, representing Mott Haven, Melrose, Highbridge, Morris Heights, Spanish Harlem, Yorkville, Roosevelt Island and part of the Upper West Side. He is the son of U.S. Congressman José Serrano.

  27. William J. Callahan

    William J. Callahan
    Biography

    William J. Callahan is the Deputy Director of the United States Secret Service. He served as the Acting Director from March 4, 2017 until April 25, 2017.

  28. Thomas J. Curry

    Thomas J. Curry
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    accountant
    Biography

    Thomas James Curry is an American government official who served as the 30th Comptroller of the Currency of the United States from April 9, 2012, until May 5, 2017. Prior to becoming Comptroller of the Currency, Curry served as a Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and as the chairman of the NeighborWorks America Board of Directors. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and raised in Stamford, Connecticut.

  29. Arthur Lichte

    Arthur Lichte
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Arthur James Lichte is a former four-star general in the United States Air Force, retroactively retired in the grade of major general.

  30. Jeff Xavier

    Jeff Xavier
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    basketball player
    Biography

    Jeffrey G. Xavier is a Cape Verdean basketball player who plays for Cáceres in LEB Oro. He is a 2009 graduate of Providence College. Xavier transferred to Providence after two years at Manhattan College. Xavier is a member of the Cape Verde national basketball team. He is a graduate of St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket. Born in the United States, he represents Cape Verde internationally.

  31. Frederick Gluck

    Frederick Gluck
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    business executive
    Biography

    Frederick W. Gluck was a longtime top senior partner and director at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, serving as managing director (chief executive) from 1988 to 1994. At McKinsey he introduced the concept of fifteen “centers of competence”. He is a director at Amgen Inc. and holds directorships in public, private, and non-profit organizations.

  32. Phil Amicone

    Phil Amicone
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    politicianengineer
    Biography

    Philip A. Amicone is an American politician who was the 41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York. He took office on January 1, 2004, after serving eight years as Deputy Mayor.

  33. Thomas E. McNamara

    Thomas E. McNamara
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Thomas E. "Ted" McNamara is a United States diplomat and State Department official.

  34. John Joseph Fitzgerald

    John Joseph Fitzgerald
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1872-1952 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    John Joseph Fitzgerald was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a United States Representative from New York from 1899 to 1917.

  35. Thomas Michael Whalen III

    Thomas Michael Whalen III
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-2002 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Thomas Michael Whalen III, also known as Tom Whalen, was an American attorney and politician, and a three-term mayor of Albany, New York, serving from 1983 to 1993. A native of Albany, he graduated from Manhattan College and Albany Law School.

  36. Joe Mohen

    Joe Mohen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    business executive
    Biography

    Joseph T. Mohen works in holographic attractions. He has been CEO of Nylon Media, best known for having been founder and CEO and co-founder of election.com, which ran the Arizona Democratic Primary in March 2000, the world’s first legally binding election conducted on the Internet, according to the company. Mohen was also a force in creating the era of free legal music, as the founder of SpiralFrog, an ad-supported free music service, which even before Spotify was able secure the rights to free music distribution from the major record labels in return for a share of the advertising revenues; SpiralFrog ultimately failed because it not create an iPhone APP, but the licensees that he negotiated paved the way for the streaming music era.

  37. Toyelle Wilson

    Toyelle Wilson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    basketball playerbasketball coach
    Biography

    Toyelle Wilson is the head women's basketball coach for Southern Methodist University. She previously served as an assistant coach at Michigan and Baylor. Wilson has also previously served as head coach of Prairie View A&M.

  38. Mike Parisi

    Mike Parisi
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1983-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Michael Richard Parisi is a former right-handed professional baseball pitcher. Parisi had a short-lived career in professional baseball as a right-handed pitcher. His career came to a head after he completely blew the game for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Boston Red Sox. The game was the end to his career.

  39. Angelo D. Roncallo

    Angelo D. Roncallo
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1927-2010 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Angelo Dominick Roncallo was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Nassau County, New York from 1973 to 1975. He was a justice on the New York Supreme Court from 1977 to 1995.

  40. John Joseph Delaney

    John Joseph Delaney
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1878-1948 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
    Biography

    John Joseph Delaney was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a United States representative from New York from 1918 to 1919, and then from 1931 to 1948. He was elected to an 11th term in 1948 but died shortly after the election.

  41. Virgil Cantini

    Virgil Cantini
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1919-2009 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Virgil David Cantini was an American enamelist, sculptor and educator. He was well known for innovation with enamel and steel and received both local and national recognition for his work, including honorary awards, competitive prizes and commissions, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957. Cantini long served as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, where he helped to create the Department of Studio Arts. A longtime resident of the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cantini died on May 2, 2009, at the age of 90. Today, many of his large scale works are on display throughout the city of Pittsburgh.

  42. Salvatore Cotillo

    Salvatore Cotillo
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1886-1939 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Salvatore Albert Cotillo was an Italian-born New York lawyer, Democratic Party politician and judge. Elected in 1912, he was the first Italian-American to serve in both houses of the New York State Legislature and the first who served as Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. Nominated to the court in the First District, he sat on the bench from 1924 until his death in 1939.

  43. Andrew Lawrence Somers

    Andrew Lawrence Somers
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1895-1949 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Andrew Lawrence Somers was an American businessman, World War I veteran, and Democratic politician who served 13 terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1925 until his death in 1949.

  44. Daniel F. Cohalan

    Daniel F. Cohalan
    Years
    1867-1946 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Daniel Florence Cohalan was an American lawyer and politician of Irish descent.

  45. John J. Boylan

    John J. Boylan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1878-1938 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    John Joseph Boylan was an American politician who served eight terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1923 until his death in 1938.

  46. Valery Havard

    Valery Havard
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1846-1927 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    surgeonexplorerbotanical collectorbotanistmilitary physician
    Biography

    Valery Havard, was a career army officer, physician, author, and botanist. Although he held many notable posts during his military career, he is most well known for his service on the western frontier of the United States and in Cuba. Many Texas plants are named for Havard, including the Chisos bluebonnet (Lupinus havardii), Havard oak (Quercus havardii), and Havard's evening primrose (Oenothera havardii).

  47. Austin Dowling

    Austin Dowling
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1868-1930 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    Catholic bishopCatholic priest
    Biography

    Daniel Austin Dowling was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the second archbishop of what was then the Archdiocese of Saint Paul in Minnesota from 1919 until his death.

  48. Bruce J. Walker

    Bruce J. Walker
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Bruce J. Walker is an American engineer, lawyer, and government official who serves as the Assistant Secretary of Energy. Prior to assuming his current role, he founded Modern Energy Insights, Inc., which specializes in evaluating risk for utilities' electric infrastructure. Walker previously worked at National Grid as the vice president of asset strategy and policy and at Consolidated Edison, where he last held the position of director of corporate emergency management and served on the biological chemical weapons response team. He has served as a member of the United States Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee. Walker co-founded the Global Smart Grid Federation. He has also served as the deputy county executive for Putnam County, New York, and as the acting energy sector chief for the Hudson Valley Infragard.

  49. Daniel J. Riordan

    Daniel J. Riordan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1870-1923 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Daniel Joseph Riordan was a U.S. Representative from New York for one term from 1899 to 1901 and for eight additional terms from 1906 to 1923.

  50. J. Steven Dowd

    J. Steven Dowd
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    J. Steven Dowd is an American businessman who currently serves as the United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to assuming his current role, he was United States Director of the African Development Bank. Previous to his government service, Dowd co-founded Ag Source, LLC, a global logistics, trading, and finance company. He has overseen food aid operations and port infrastructure projects, and served as CEO of Marcona Ocean Industries, an international shipping and mining company.

  51. Thomas Francis Smith

    Thomas Francis Smith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1865-1923 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Thomas Francis Smith was a lawyer, newspaperman, and politician from New York. From 1917 to 1921, he served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

  52. John Thomas McCarthy

    John Thomas McCarthy
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    John Thomas McCarthy was the United States Ambassador to Lebanon and Tunisia.

  53. George Chalmers

    George Chalmers
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1888-1960 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    George W. Chalmers was a professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1910 to 1916. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies. On October 12, 1915, he became the first European born pitcher to start a World Series game.

  54. Ward Miller

    Ward Miller
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1884-1958 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Ward Taylor Miller was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1909 to 1917 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Terriers, and St. Louis Browns.

  55. Thomas F. Grady

    Thomas F. Grady
    Years
    1853-1912 (aged 59)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Thomas Francis Grady was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

  56. Kenneth John Frost

    Kenneth John Frost
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-2013 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    astronomerastrophysicist
    Biography

    Kenneth John Frost was a pioneer in the early space program, designing and flying instruments to detect and measure X-rays and gamma-rays in space, primarily from the Sun. He was the first to suggest the use of an active scintillation shield operated in electronic anticoincidence with the primary detector to reduce the background from cosmic ray interactions, an innovation that made sensitive hard X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy possible. He was an American astrophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center working as a civil servant for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. During his career, he was the project scientist of the Solar Maximum Mission, principal investigator of six science instruments, the head of the Solar Physics Branch, and the associate director of Space Sciences.

  57. Andy Karl

    Andy Karl
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1914-1989 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Anton Andrew Karl was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of five seasons (1943–47) with the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves. For his career, he compiled an 18–23 record in 191 appearances, all but four as a relief pitcher, with a 3.51 earned run average and 107 strikeouts.

  58. Bill Finley

    Bill Finley
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1863-1912 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    William James Finley was a 19th-century professional baseball player. He played catcher and outfielder for the 1886 New York Giants. He attended Columbia University and Manhattan College.

  59. Victor J. Dowling

    Victor J. Dowling
    Years
    1866-1934 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Victor James Dowling was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

  60. Jeremiah F. Hayes

    Jeremiah F. Hayes
    Years
    1934-2018 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    electrical engineer
    Biography

    Jeremiah F. Hayes was an award-winning North American professor of electrical engineering. In 1983, he was honored as an IEEE fellow for his first published book which was about computer communications. On that project, Hayes worked with Andrew Viterbi on combining Erlang with Shannon–Hartley theorem. He also co-authored a communications textbook entitled Digital Communications Principles with Stephen Weinstein and Richard D. Gitlin. He received the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research in 1996, and was a senior editor of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). His most noted work was subgroup polling. Jeremiah Francis Hayes was born on July 8, 1934, in New York NY, and died on May 8, 2018, in Victoria BC, Canada.

  61. James Rispoli

    James Rispoli
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Enrolled in Manhattan College
    Graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering
    Occupations
    civil engineer
    Biography

    James Anthony Rispoli is a former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management who served for three and a half years under the administration of President George W. Bush; he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in July 2005. and resigned in late November 2008. His position was occasionally called cleanup czar in the press.

  62. Francis J. Bradley

    Francis J. Bradley
    Years
    1926-2021 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    electrical engineerhealth physicist
    Biography

    Francis J. Bradley was an American health physicist, writer and founding member of the Health Physics Society.

  63. Edward Terence Donnelly

    Edward Terence Donnelly
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1871-1929 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    military personnel
    Biography

    Edward Terence Donnelly was a United States Army officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  64. Henry Thielman

    Henry Thielman
    Born in
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    Years
    1880-1942 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Henry Joseph Thielman was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and played baseball for local teams. He also attended the University of Notre Dame in 1900–1901 and played football there.

  65. Horace Odell

    Horace Odell
    Born in
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    Years
    1910-1984 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    athletics competitor
    Biography

    Horace Paul "Hop" Odell, Jr. was an American javelin thrower. Odell was IC4A champion in 1933 and 1934 and United States champion in 1935.

  66. James J. Walsh

    James J. Walsh
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1858-1909 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    James Joseph Walsh was an attorney and politician from New York City. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1895 to 1896.

  67. Jim Mullen

    Jim Mullen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1877-1956 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    James Henry Mullen was an American Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1904 season and the Washington Senators during the 1904 and 1905 seasons.