23 Notable alumni of
SUNY College at Oswego
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SUNY College at Oswego is 1712th in the world, 592nd in North America, and 556th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from SUNY College at Oswego sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jerry Seinfeld
- Occupations
- stand-up comedian
- Biography
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Jerome Allen Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and television producer specializing in observational comedy. Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and wrote with Larry David. Seinfeld earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1995. The show is one of the most acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. He has since created and produced the reality series The Marriage Ref (2010–2011), and created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019), the latter of which earned him three Webby Awards. He also co-produced, co-wrote, and starred in the DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie (2007) and the Netflix comedy Unfrosted (2024).
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Al Roker
- Enrolled in SUNY College at Oswego
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in communication
- Occupations
- meteorologisttelevision personalitygame show hostbloggervoice actor
- Biography
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Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the weather anchor on NBC's Today, and occasionally co-hosts 3rd Hour Today. He has a lapsed American Meteorological Society (AMS) Television Seal of Approval (#238).
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Sal Iacono
- Enrolled in SUNY College at Oswego
- 1989-1993 graduated with undergraduate degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpodcaster
- Biography
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Sal Iacono, also known as Cousin Sal, is an American comedian, writer, podcaster, and game show host. He is known for his roles on The Man Show and the late night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He is Jimmy Kimmel's cousin, hence his nickname Cousin Sal.
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Linda Cohn
- Occupations
- ice hockey playersports commentator
- Biography
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Linda Cohn is an American sportscaster. She has anchored ESPN's SportsCenter since 1992.
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Curtis Lepore
- Occupations
- vloggerInternet celebrity
- Biography
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Curtis Lepore is an American actor, musician and internet celebrity who produces Vine videos. In August 2016, he was the seventh most popular user on Vine.
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Robin Curtis
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Robin Curtis is an American actress. She is best known for replacing Kirstie Alley in the role of Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
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Steve Levy
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Steve Levy is an American journalist and sportscaster for ESPN. He is known for his work broadcasting college football, Monday Night Football and the National Hockey League.
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Bill Shine
- Enrolled in SUNY College at Oswego
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in communication studies
- Occupations
- political advisertelevision producer
- Biography
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William Shine is a former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications in the first administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. He spent most of his career as a producer and executive at Fox News. Most recently, he was co-president of Fox News, a position he held for 9 months before he was forced out on May 1, 2017. On March 8, 2019, the White House announced that Shine was resigning to advise President Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
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Alice McDermott
- Occupations
- novelistessayistwriter
- Biography
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Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
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Ken Auletta
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Kenneth B. Auletta is an American author, a political columnist for the New York Daily News, and media critic for The New Yorker.
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David H. McConnell
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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David Hall McConnell Sr. was an American businessman who was the founder and president of the "California Perfume Company", which then became Avon Products.
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John Mannion
- Enrolled in SUNY College at Oswego
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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John W. Mannion is an American educator and politician who has served as the U.S. representative from New York's 22nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as a state senator from the 50th district between 2020 and 2024. Before entering politics, Mannion was a high school biology teacher.
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Christopher Maloney
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Christopher Patrick Maloney is an American singer-songwriter, bass guitarist and music educator. He is widely known for his work with instrumental hard rock band Cosmosquad, his stints in Hardline and with Dweezil Zappa, as an independent solo artist, an instructor at the Musicians Institute, the co-owner of Absolute Music Studios and the co-creator of the online music education site Practice Warriors.
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Takamine Hideo
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Takamine Hideo was an administrator and educator in Meiji period Japan.
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Jeri Muoio
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Geraldine "Jeri" Muoio is an American politician who served as Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida from 2011 to 2019.
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Richard Jay-Alexander
- Occupations
- composerpercussionistactoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Richard Jay-Alexander is an American Broadway producer and director. He served as Executive Director of the North American Flagship Headquarters, Cameron Mackintosh Inc., for twelve years, known for productions which include Les Misérables, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Oliver! and Putting It Together.
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Charles E. King
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Charles Edward King was a Hawaiian-born American educator, Hawaii territorial legislator, and a songwriter who is most widely known as the composer of "Ke Kali Nei Au". King was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995. Music historian George Kanahele regarded King as the "Dean of Hawaiian Music", although this sobriquet is more associated with John Kameaaloha Almeida.
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Harry Bronson
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harry B. Bronson is an attorney and politician from Rochester, New York who serves as a member of the New York State Assembly. A former member of the Monroe County legislature, he was elected to the Assembly in 2010. He is a Democrat.
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Woodbridge N. Ferris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris was an American educator from New York, Illinois and Michigan who served as the 28th governor of Michigan and in the United States Senate as a Democrat. He was the founder and namesake of Ferris State University.
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Frederick Bieber
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Frederick Robert Bieber is a Canadian-American geneticist currently serving as Senior Medical Geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a member of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University, and a Consultant at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston.
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Mary Sheldon Barnes
- Enrolled in SUNY College at Oswego
- Studied in 1869
- Occupations
- historianeducatorwriter
- Biography
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Mary Downing Sheldon Barnes was an American educator and historian. Her teaching style and publications were considered ahead of their time. She used a method that encouraged students to develop their own research skills utilizing primary sources and their own problem solving skills. Sheldon was teacher of and major influence on author and socialist Anna Strunsky.
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Patricia Walrath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patricia A. Walrath is an American politician who represented the 3rd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 to 2009, was a member of the Stow, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen from 1980 to 1986, and the Stow Finance Committee from 1977 to 1980.
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Olive Pond Amies
- Years
- 1844-1917 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Olive Pond Amies was an American educator, lecturer, and editor from the U.S. state of New York. She founded the training school for teachers in Lewiston, Maine; served as editor of a Universalist Church publication; and was the first president of the Woman's Health Protective Association of the United States. Amies favored the temperance movement and women's suffrage.
