23 Notable alumni of
St. Thomas University
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St. Thomas University is 2114th in the world, 720th in North America, and 676th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from St. Thomas University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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William Levy
- Occupations
- film producertelevision actormodelfilm actorvoice actor
- Biography
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William Gutiérrez Levy is a Cuban-American actor and former model.
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Stan Van Gundy
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
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Stanley Alan Van Gundy is an American former basketball coach who is a television commentator for College Basketball on CBS for CBS Sports and NBA on Prime for Sports on Amazon Prime Video. He previously worked as game analyst for NBA on TNT from 2019 to 2020, and again from 2021 to 2025. Prior to TNT, he was most recently the head coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA. He also served as the head coach and president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons from 2014 to 2018. From 2003 to 2005, he was the head coach of the Miami Heat but resigned in 2005 mid-season, returning the job over to Pat Riley. Van Gundy then coached the Orlando Magic for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, leading them to the 2009 NBA Finals. He is the older brother of former New York Knicks and Houston Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy.
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Dom Irrera
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- screenwritervoice actoractorfilm actor
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Domenick Jack Irrera is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Much of his material is in the form of stories about his life, especially his childhood years and growing up in an Italian-American family.
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Mike Fitzpatrick
- Enrolled in St. Thomas University
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Gerard Fitzpatrick was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2007 and 2011 to 2017. He was first elected to Congress in 2004 and represented the district from 2005 to 2007, but he was defeated by Democrat Patrick Murphy in 2006.
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Paul Mainieri
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- baseball player
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Paul Mainieri is an American college baseball coach and former second baseman. He is currently the head baseball coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks. He played college baseball at LSU, Miami-Dade CC and New Orleans before pursuing a professional baseball career. He then served as the head coach of the St. Thomas Bobcats (1983–1988), the Air Force Falcons (1989–1994), the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1995–2006) and the LSU Tigers (2007–2021). Mainieri coached LSU to the 2009 College World Series Championship.
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Laurent Lamothe
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- diplomattennis playerpolitician
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Laurent Salvador Lamothe is a Haitian businessman, technology entrepreneur, and political figure who has served in the government of Haiti as Foreign Minister beginning in October 2011, then as Prime Minister after appointment on 4 May 2012. On 14 December 2014, Lamothe resigned from his position as Prime Minister. More recently Lamothe has publicly spoken about the urgent need for the return of law and order in Haiti.
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Alex Penelas
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Alexander Penelas is an American attorney who is the former mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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Manny Díaz, Jr
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- politician
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Manny Díaz Jr. is an American politician who is currently serving as the president of the University of West Florida. Díaz served as the 28th education commissioner of Florida from 2022-2025. A Republican, Díaz was a member of the Florida Senate from 2018 to 2022, representing the 36th district, which encompasses the Hialeah area in northwest Miami-Dade County. He also served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2018, which encompassed parts of Hialeah and Northwest Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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Frank Artiles
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- politician
- Biography
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Frank Artiles is a Cuban-American Republican politician from Florida. He served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing parts of Miami-Dade County from 2010 to 2016, before being elected to the Florida Senate in 2016. He resigned from the Senate on April 21, 2017, after using racial slurs and other profanities against fellow senators. Artiles was also accused of Campaign finance violations and Election fraud and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, five years of probation and 500 hours of community service.
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José R. Oliva
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- politician
- Biography
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José R. Oliva is an American Republican politician from Florida. He served in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the Hialeah and Miami Lakes area in northern Miami-Dade County from 2011 to 2020. He was speaker of the House during his last term in office from 2018 to 2020.
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Carlos Hernandez
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- politician
- Biography
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Carlos Hernández is a Cuban-born American politician. Hernández served as the mayor of Hialeah, Florida, from May 2011 to November 2021. He became acting mayor in 2011 upon the resignation of his predecessor, Julio Robaina, who left the Hialeah mayoral office to pursue an unsuccessful campaign for Mayor of Miami-Dade County.
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Connie Yori
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- basketball playerbasketball coach
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Connie Sue Yori is the former head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team representing the University of Nebraska in NCAA Division I competition. She formerly coached Loras College (a Division III school) from 1990 to 1992 and Creighton from 1992 to 2002. In 2009–10, Yori was named the Naismith College Coach of the Year, AP College Basketball Coach of the Year and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year after guiding Nebraska to a 32–2 record and the school's first-ever trip to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship Sweet 16.
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Cynthia Stafford
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- politician
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Cynthia A. Stafford is a Democratic politician and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 109th District, which includes northeastern Miami-Dade County, from 2010 to 2018.
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Gene Taylor
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- athletic director
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Forrest Gene Taylor is an American university sports administrator, currently serving as the athletic director at Kansas State University, serving since May 2017. Prior to his current position, Taylor served as the deputy athletics director at the University of Iowa from 2014 to 2017, and was the athletics director at North Dakota State University from 2001 to 2014.
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Ervin A. Gonzalez
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- lawyer
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Ervin A. Gonzalez was an American civil trial attorney whose practice focused on wrongful death, personal injury, medical negligence, product liability and class action torts. He was a partner with the law firm Colson Hicks Eidson in the firm's Coral Gables office.
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Tien Chung-kwang
- Enrolled in St. Thomas University
- In 1992 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Tien Chung-kwang is a Taiwanese politician who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2025.
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Kiko Calero
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Enrique Nomar "Kiko" Calero is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball relief pitcher.
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Madeline Pumariega
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Madeline Pumeriega is the fifth president of Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida. She is the first woman to hold the post.
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John Quiñones
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John P. Quiñones IV is an American politician. He was the first Republican of Puerto Rican ancestry elected to the Florida House of Representatives, serving from 2002 to 2007, and is a former member of the Osceola County Commission.
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Robert Asencio
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- politician
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Robert Asencio is an American Democratic politician and former Miami-Dade Schools Police Department captain from Florida. From 2016 to 2018, Asencio served in the Florida House of Representatives, representing part of Miami-Dade in District 118. In August 2022, he won the Democratic primary for the newly created Florida's 28th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, and was defeated by incumbent Republican Carlos A. Giménez in the November general election.
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Gaston Cantens
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- politician
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Gaston Ignacio Cantens is an American politician from Miami, Florida. Described as a "onetime influential member of the Florida House of Representatives" Cantens served in the body from 1998 to 2004. Cantens is currently a Vice President at Florida Crystals.
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Sharon Pritchett
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- politician
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Sharon Pritchett is a Democratic politician from Florida. She served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 102nd District, stretching from Miami Gardens to Pembroke Pines in northern Miami-Dade County and southern Broward County, from 2012 to 2020.
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D.D. Wozniak
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Daniel Donald "D.D." Wozniak, Sr. was a Minnesota lawyer, politician, and judge, who served as Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
