27 Notable alumni of
Manhattanville College
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Manhattanville College is 1419th in the world, 497th in North America, and 465th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from Manhattanville College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Maria Shriver
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- writerwomen's rights activistchildren's writernews presenterjournalist
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Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist, author, a member of the prominent Shriver and Kennedy families, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to former governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, from whom she filed for divorce in 2011; it was finalized in 2021.
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Ethel Kennedy
- Enrolled in Manhattanville College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- socialite
- Biography
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Ethel Kennedy was an American human rights advocate. She was the wife of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and a daughter of businessman George Skakel.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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- founderpoliticiansocial activistsociologistathletics competitor
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Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG was an American philanthropist. Shriver was a member of the Kennedy family by birth, and a member of the Shriver family through her marriage to Sargent Shriver, who was the United States Ambassador to France and the final Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972. She was a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith.
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James Badge Dale
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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James Badge Dale is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Chase Edmunds in 24, Robert Leckie in The Pacific, Trooper Barrigan in The Departed, Luke Lewenden in The Grey, Eric Savin in Iron Man 3, and Tyrone S. "Rone" Woods in 13 Hours.
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Rose Kennedy
- Occupations
- socialite
- Biography
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Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston. Her father, John F. Fitzgerald, served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1892–1894), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1895–1901, 1919), and as Mayor of Boston (1906–1908, 1910–1914). Her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., chaired the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–1935) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937–1938), and served as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1938–1940). Their nine children included United States President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith. In 1951, Rose Kennedy was ennobled by Pope Pius XII, becoming the sixth American woman to be granted the rank of Papal countess.
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Jean Kennedy Smith
- Enrolled in Manhattanville College
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Jean Ann Kennedy Smith was an American diplomat, activist, humanitarian, and author who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She was a member of the Kennedy family, the eighth of nine children, and youngest daughter, born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. Her siblings included President of the United States John F. Kennedy, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy from New York, United States Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts, Rosemary Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was also a sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Joan Bennett Kennedy
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- writermodelpianistsocialite
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Virginia Joan Kennedy is an American socialite. She was the first wife of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
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- socialiteactor
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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was an American socialite. Vanderbilt was the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper. She was a central figure in Vanderbilt vs. Whitney, one of the most sensational American custody trials in the 20th century.
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Jamaal Bowman
- Enrolled in Manhattanville College
- Graduated with Doctor of Education in educational leadership
- Occupations
- politicianAmerican football playerhead teacher
- Biography
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Jamaal Anthony Bowman is an American politician and former educator who served from 2021 to 2025 as the United States representative for New York's 16th congressional district.
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Rosemary Murphy
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Rosemary Murphy was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in Eleanor and Franklin (1976).
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Brittany Underwood
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- taekwondo athletefilm producerfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Brittany Underwood is a Colombian American actress, director, and singer. She is known for her roles as teenagers Langston Wilde on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live and Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama Hollywood Heights.
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Sila María Calderón
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- politician
- Biography
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Sila María Calderón Serra is a Puerto Rican politician, businesswoman, and philanthropist who was the governor of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005, becoming the first female to be elected and serve as governor in Puerto Rican history. Prior to her term as governor, Calderón held various positions in the government of Puerto Rico, including the 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico from 1988 to 1989, and Chief of Staff to Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. She was also mayor of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, from 1997 to 2001.
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Matt Braunger
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- television actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Matthew Braunger is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His most recent special Finally Live In Portland was launched by Comedy Dynamics in 2019. Outside of performing stand-up, Braunger is noted for being a cast member on MADtv during its final season in 2008–2009, numerous guest star roles (NBC's Up All Night, Marvel's Agent Carter, Netflix' Disjointed), and numerous voice over roles (Amazon's The New VIPs, Netflix' BoJack Horseman).
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Mindy Grossman
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- businesspersonbusiness executive
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Mindy Grossman is the former CEO of WW International (formerly Weight Watchers). Her earlier career included executive roles at Ralph Lauren Corporation and Nike, and she was also CEO of HSN from 2006 - 2017. She has been listed on Financial Times's list of the Top 50 Women In World Business, and was ranked among Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women In The World, as well as in Fortune's Top People in Business.
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Karen Akers
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- actorfilm actorsingerstage actortelevision actor
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Karen Akers, née Orth-Pallavicini is an American actress and singer, who has appeared on Broadway, and in cabaret and film.
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Josie Natori
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- fashion designer
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Josie Natori is a Filipino-American fashion designer and the CEO and founder of The Natori Company. Natori served as a commissioner on the White House Conference on Small Business. In March 2007 she was awarded the Order of Lakandula, one of the highest civilian awards in the Philippines. In April 2007, Natori received the "Peopling of America" Award from the Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation. She often says her business philosophy is based around an "East-West mix" of culture and design.
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Barbara Farrell Vucanovich
- Enrolled in Manhattanville College
- Studied in 1938-1939
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician who was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997.
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Nan A. Talese
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- writer
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Nan Talese is a retired American editor, and a veteran of the New York publishing industry. Talese was the senior vice president of Doubleday. From 1990 to 2020, Talese was the publisher and editorial director of her own imprint, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, publishing authors such as Pat Conroy, Ian McEwan, and Peter Ackroyd.
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Carol Sauvion
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Carol Sauvion is an American crafts scholar and patron, and the executive Producer and director of the PBS documentary series Craft in America.
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Christine Choy
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- screenwriterfilm directorcinematographer
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Christine Choy is a Chinese-American filmmaker. She is known for co-directing Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a 1988 documentary film based on the murder of Vincent Jen Chin, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-founded Third World Newsreel, a film company focusing on people of color and social justice issues. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced and directed more than eighty films. She is a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Kitty Pilgrim
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kathryn Pilgrim, known professionally as Kitty Pilgrim, has worked throughout her career as international journalist and author. She was a CNN anchor and correspondent for 25 years. She has been active in the world of foreign policy, covering many international issues. She is currently a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a distinguished fellow at the EastWest Institute, an NGO that serves to reduce international conflict.
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Carlon Colker
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- physician
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Carlon M. Colker is an American physician and celebrity doctor, whose practice specialties include internal medicine, integrative medicine, medical nutrition and applied nutritional science, sports medicine, human performance, injury rehabilitation, and longevity medicine. Colker is a former champion bodybuilder, powerlifter, and MMA fighter and coach. Colker has appeared as a medical correspondent on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends. Colker has appeared on such shows as The View, The Today Show, ESPN Outside the Lines, NBC's Health Segment, Court TV, Bloomberg TV, and ABC's World News Tonight, offering medical advice.
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Mary Hamilton
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Mary Lucille Hamilton was an African American civil rights activist. Her case before the United States Supreme Court, Hamilton v. Alabama, decided that an African American woman was entitled to the same courteous forms of address customarily reserved solely to whites in the Southern United States, and that calling a black person by his or her first name in a legal proceeding was "a form of racial discrimination".
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Gren Wells
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Gren Wells is a Kentucky-born filmmaker, screenwriter, and actress who works and resides in Los Angeles.
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Sook Nyul Choi
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Sook Nyul Choi is a Korean American children's storybook author.
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Terese Svoboda
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- writernovelistpoet
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Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.
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Helen Steinbinder
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Helen E. Steinbinder was the first female professor of law at the Georgetown University.
