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Catholic University of America

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Washington, DC

Founding Date:
1887

Motto:
Deus Lux Mea Est

Mascot:
Cardinal

Enrollment:
5510

Official Website:
http://www.cua.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kathleen Q. Abernathy
Government
5-Jun-1956   FCC Commissioner, 2001-05
Joseph Alioto
Politician
12-Feb-1916 29-Jan-1998 Mayor of San Francisco, 1968-76
Charlotte Allen
Journalist
?   Conservative writer
James E. Barrett
Judge
8-Apr-1922 7-Nov-2011 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1971-87
Charlene Barshefsky
Diplomat
11-Aug-1950   US Trade Representative, 1997-2001
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Religion
2-Apr-1928 14-Nov-1996 Archbishop of Chicago, 1982-96
Jesse Brown
Government
27-Mar-1944 15-Aug-2002 US Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, 1993-97
Raymond Leo Burke
Religion
30-Jun-1948   Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
Stephen Cambone
Government
22-Jun-1952   Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
Pat Carroll
Actor
5-May-1927   Make Room for Daddy
Bob Casey, Jr.
Politician
13-Apr-1960   US Senator from Pennsylvania
James V. Casey
Religion
22-Sep-1914 14-Mar-1986 Archbishop of Denver, 1967-86
William Casey
Spy
13-Mar-1913 29-Jan-1987 CIA Director, 1981-87
Brian Cashman
Baseball
3-Jul-1967   General Manager, NY Yankees
Charles J. Chaput
Religion
26-Sep-1944   Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia
Jeffrey Chiesa
Attorney
22-Jun-1965   New Jersey Attorney General, 2012-13
Terence Cardinal Cooke
Religion
1-Mar-1921 6-Oct-1983 Archbishop of New York, 1968-83
Robert J. Cornell
Politician
16-Dec-1919 10-May-2009 Congressman from Wisconsin, 1975-79
Mariclare Costello
Actor
3-Feb-1936   Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Karen Czarnecki
Government
?   Conservative commentator
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Religion
23-May-1949   Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
Timothy M. Dolan
Religion
6-Feb-1950   Catholic Archbishop of New York
Thomas E. Donilon
Government
14-May-1955   US National Security Advisor
Peter M. Donohue
Educator
c. 1953   President, Villanova University
Maureen Dowd
Columnist
14-Jan-1952   New York Times columnist
Naomi C. Earp
Government
c. 1950   Chairman of the EEOC, 2006-08
Douglas C. Eby
Business
c. 1959   TimePartners LLC
Larry EchoHawk
Politician
2-Aug-1948   Head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Lee Edwards
Historian
1-Dec-1932   Conservative historian
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Relative
5-Jul-1948   Richard M. Nixon's daughter
Hugh Everett
Physicist
11-Nov-1930 19-Jul-1982 Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics
John C. Favalora
Religion
5-Dec-1935   Catholic Archbishop of Miami
Arthur J. Gajarsa
Judge
1-Mar-1941   US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Francis Cardinal George
Religion
16-Jan-1937 17-Apr-2015 Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, 1997-2014
Henry Gibson
Actor
21-Sep-1935 14-Sep-2009 Laugh-In
Ed Gillespie
Politician
1-Aug-1962   RNC Chairman, 2003-05
Michael D. Griffin
Government
1-Nov-1949   NASA Administrator
Ruth R. Harkin
Business
c. 1944   United Technologies VP, 1997-2005
Tom Harkin
Politician
19-Nov-1939   Former US Senator from Iowa
Diane C. Harris
Business
c. 1942   Hypotenuse Enterprises, Inc.
Theodore Hesburgh
Educator
25-May-1917 26-Feb-2015 President, University of Notre Dame, 1952-87
Kathy Hochul
Politician
27-Aug-1958   Congresswoman from New York
Jean Kerr
Author
10-Jul-1922 5-Jan-2003 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Fred Kleisner
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Wyndham International
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Judge
1943   Chief Judge, FISA Court
Mitch Landrieu
Politician
16-Aug-1960   Mayor of New Orleans
Edward M. Liddy
Business
28-Jan-1946   Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Columnist
22-Mar-1976   National Review Online editor
William E. Lori
Religion
6-May-1951   Archbishop of Baltimore
Laurence Luckinbill
Actor
21-Nov-1934   The Boys in the Band
John Carroll Lynch
Actor
1-Aug-1963   The Drew Carey Show
Roger Cardinal Mahony
Religion
27-Feb-1936   Cardinal, Archbishop of Los Angeles
Terry McAuliffe
Politician
9-Feb-1957   Governor of Virginia
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Religion
7-Jul-1930   Archbishop of Washington, 2000-06
John McGiver
Actor
5-Nov-1913 9-Sep-1975 Midnight Cowboy
Ed McMahon
Talk Show Host
6-Mar-1923 23-Jun-2009 The Tonight Show
Stephen McNichols
Politician
7-Mar-1914 25-Nov-1997 Governor of Colorado, 1957-63
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros
Religion
6-Oct-1915 17-Sep-1983 Archbishop of Boston, 1970-83
Michael W. Michalak
Diplomat
c. 1946   US Ambassador to Vietnam
Jack R. Miller
Politician
6-Jun-1916 29-Aug-1994 US Senator from Iowa, 1961-73
Jason Miller
Actor
22-Apr-1939 13-May-2001 The Exorcist
John J. Myers
Religion
26-Jul-1941   Catholic Archbishop of Newark
George Hugh Niederauer
Religion
14-Jun-1936   Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco
John T. Noonan, Jr.
Judge
24-Oct-1926   9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96
Patrick Noonan
Activist
c. 1943   Chairman of the Conservation Fund
David M. O'Connell
Educator
21-Apr-1955   President, Catholic University of America
Martin O'Malley
Politician
18-Jan-1963   Governor of Maryland, 2007-15
Seán Cardinal O'Malley
Religion
29-Jun-1944   Catholic Archbishop of Boston
Bibi Osterwald
Actor
3-Feb-1918 2-Jan-2002 Bridget Loves Bernie
Michael Potemra
Columnist
?   Deputy Managing Editor, National Review
Martin Puryear
Sculptor
23-May-1941   Post-minimalist
Peggy A. Quince
Judge
3-Jan-1948   Justice, Florida Supreme Court
Rick Renzi
Politician
11-Jun-1958   Congressman from Arizona, 2003-09
James T. Rhodes
Business
c. 1941   CEO of Virginia Electric & Power, 1989-97
Henry duPont Ridgely
Judge
c. 1949   Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Justin Cardinal Rigali
Religion
19-Apr-1935   Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia
Kevin A. Ring
Attorney
c. 1970   Team Abramoff
Thomas J. Rodi
Religion
27-Mar-1949   Catholic Archbishop of Mobile
Peter Roskam
Politician
13-Sep-1961   Congressman, Illinois 6th
Chris Sarandon
Actor
24-Jul-1942   Dog Day Afternoon
Susan Sarandon
Actor
4-Oct-1946   Louise in Thelma and Louise
Karl M. Schmitt
Historian
22-Jul-1922   Mexico and the United States, 1821-1973
Dennis M. Schnurr
Religion
21-Jun-1948   Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati
Fulton J. Sheen
Religion
8-May-1895 9-Dec-1979 America's first televangelist
John Slattery
Actor
13-Aug-1962   Roger on Mad Men
William Smithers
Actor
10-Jul-1927   Jeremy Wendell on Dallas
Robert J. Spitzer
Educator
16-May-1952   President of Gonzaga University
A. Devitt Vanech
Attorney
26-Mar-1906 10-Sep-1967 Deputy US Attorney General, 1951-52
Urban J. Vehr
Religion
30-May-1891 19-Sep-1973 Archbishop of Denver, 1941-67
Allen H. Vigneron
Religion
21-Oct-1948   Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
Jon Voight
Actor
29-Dec-1938   Midnight Cowboy
Brian Williams
Journalist
5-May-1959   Exaggerating newscaster
Karen Hastie Williams
Business
30-Sep-1944   Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring
Donald W. Wuerl
Religion
12-Nov-1940   Archbishop of Washington DC

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kathleen Q. Abernathy
Government
5-Jun-1956   FCC Commissioner, 2001-05
Clyde Cowan
Physicist
6-Dec-1919 24-May-1974 Co-Discover of the neutrino
Avery Cardinal Dulles
Religion
24-Aug-1918 12-Dec-2008 Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal
John M. Facciola
Judge
c. 1944   US Magistrate Judge, District of Columbia
Walter Kerr
Critic
8-Jul-1913 9-Oct-1996 New York Times drama critic
Lise Meitner
Physicist
7-Nov-1878 27-Oct-1968 Discovered nuclear fission
Norman Ornstein
Author
14-Oct-1948   American Enterprise Institute
Stuart Rothenberg
Publisher
c. 1948   Rothenberg Political Report
Fulton J. Sheen
Religion
8-May-1895 9-Dec-1979 America's first televangelist
Brian Tierney
Scholar
1-May-1922   Origins of Papal Infallibility

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles J. Bonaparte
Government
9-Jun-1851 28-Jun-1921 US Attorney General, 1906-09
Raymond Leo Burke
Religion
30-Jun-1948   Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
Charles J. Chaput
Religion
26-Sep-1944   Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia
Timothy M. Dolan
Religion
6-Feb-1950   Catholic Archbishop of New York
John C. Favalora
Religion
5-Dec-1935   Catholic Archbishop of Miami
Steve Garvey
Baseball
22-Dec-1948   Former LA Dodger
Francis Cardinal George
Religion
16-Jan-1937 17-Apr-2015 Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, 1997-2014
Ed Gillespie
Politician
1-Aug-1962   RNC Chairman, 2003-05
Wilton D. Gregory
Religion
7-Dec-1947   Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta
Douglas W. Kmiec
Scholar
24-Sep-1951   US Ambassador to Malta
William E. Lori
Religion
6-May-1951   Archbishop of Baltimore
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Religion
7-Jul-1930   Archbishop of Washington, 2000-06
John J. Myers
Religion
26-Jul-1941   Catholic Archbishop of Newark
David M. O'Connell
Educator
21-Apr-1955   President, Catholic University of America
Seán Cardinal O'Malley
Religion
29-Jun-1944   Catholic Archbishop of Boston
William G. Parrett
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, 2003-07
Daniel Edward Pilarczyk
Religion
12-Aug-1934   Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati, 1982-2009
Justin Cardinal Rigali
Religion
19-Apr-1935   Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia
Allen H. Vigneron
Religion
21-Oct-1948   Catholic Archbishop of Detroit




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