This is a list of notable students, alumni, staff and faculty of Canisius University in Buffalo, New York.

Academia

• Sister Marion Beiter, '44 - mathematician, Chairman of Mathematics for Rosary Hill College
• H. James Birx - Professor of Anthropology, Canisius University
• Paul G. Bulger - President of Buffalo State College
• James Demske, S.J., B.A. '47 – President of Canisius College (1966–1993)^[1]
• John Hurley '78 - 24th president and 1st lay president of Canisius College (2010-2022); president emeritus (2022-pres.)
• Mark Huson - Professor of Finance, University of Alberta, Faculty of Business
• Paul G. Gassman '57 - former Chair of University of Minnesota Chemistry Department
• Thomas J. Lawley '68 - Dean of the Emory University School of Medicine
• Steven Seegel, Ph.D. ’99 - Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at University of Texas at Austin^[2]

Business

• Mary E. Belle '73 – President of Licensing, Jones Apparel Group
• Michael Buczkowski '86 - General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
• Peter M. Cuviello '69 – Vice President and managing director, Lockheed Martin
• Calvin Darden '72 – Senior Vice President, United Parcel Service; named 8th most powerful black executive in the U.S. by Fortune magazine
• Gene F. Jankowski '55 – former chairman, CBS Broadcast Group: Chairman and CEO, Jankowski
• Gregory R. Maday '70 – Senior Vice President, Warner Bros.
• George Mathewson '72 – chairman of the Board, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Carl J. Montante '64 - founder, President, and managing director of Uniland Development; named 2010 Buffalo Outstanding Citizen^[3]
• Charles Moran Jr. - President and COO, Delaware North^[4]
• John W. Rowe '66 – chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.; member of the Academy of Science

Journalism

• Anne Burrell '91 – Food Network chef
• J. Michael Collins – co-founder of PBS Buffalo; Emmy Award winner for executive producing Reading Rainbow
• Elizabeth MacDonald '84 - Gerald Loeb Award and multiple other awards winning financial journalist with The Wall Street Journal, anchorwoman on Fox Business, appeared on NBC's The Today Show, ABC's World News Tonight, Outnumbered, Your World with Neil Cavuto, CBS This Morning, C-SPAN, Court TV, ABC News Radio, NPR, and others
• Michael Scheuer '74 – CBS News terrorism analyst; former CIA employee
• Elaine Sciolino ’70 – author; Paris Bureau Chief for The New York Times
• Cynthia L. Skrzycki '76 – financial columnist for The Washington Post
• Adam Zyglis '04 – editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, winner of 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Medicine and science

• Sister Marion Beiter, '44 - mathematician, Chairman of Mathematics for Rosary Hill College
• Thomas J. Dougherty, Ph.D. '55 – Chief of Radiation/Biology Dept., Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Thomas J. Lawley, M.D. '68 – Dean, School of Medicine, Emory University
• Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D. '71 – chairman, Critical Care Medicine & Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Robert J. Lull, M.D. (deceased) '62 – Chief of Nuclear Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
• George E. Schreiner '43 – Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Edward G. Zubler '49, inventor of the halogen lamp^[5]

Politics, government, and law

• Hon. Charles S. Desmond (deceased) '17 – retired Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals
• Hon. Dennis Thomas Flynn, Delegate to Congress from the Oklahoma Territory
• Hon. Matthew J. Jasen '37 – retired judge, NY State Court of Appeals; Jasen and Jasen, PC
• Hon. John J. LaFalce '61 – former Congressman (NY); Peter Canisius Distinguished University Professor, Canisius College
• Hon. Michael Liebel Jr. (Class of 1887), former Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania and United States Representative for Pennsylvania
• Hon. Salvatore R. Martoche, JSC '62 – New York State Supreme Court Justice; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
• Hon. Anthony M. Masiello '69 – former Mayor of Buffalo, New York
• James T. Molloy '58 – former Doorkeeper, U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. Henry J. Nowak '57 – former Congressman (NY), U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. L. William Paxon '77 – former Congressman (NY); Senior Advisor, Akin, Gump, Hauer, Strauss & Feld
• Denise O'Donnell, former United States Attorney, candidate for New York State Attorney General and New York State Director of Criminal Justice Services
• Edwin J. Roland - Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
• Michael Scheuer '74, Ph.D. – former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka Alec Station); Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004; author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
• Robin Schimminger '69 – New York State Assemblyman
• Dale Volker '63 – New York State Senator

Sports

Dan Carey- professional lacrosse player and now General Manager of the Rochester knight hawks

• Michael Buczkowski - General Manager/Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
• Tommy Colella - football player
• Cory Conacher - ice hockey player
• Leroy Chollet - basketball player
• Corey Herring '08 − basketball player
• Robert A. MacKinnon '50 – former General Manager, Assistant Coach, New Jersey Nets
• Johnny McCarthy - NBA player and coach; coached Golden Griffins Men's Basketball
• Gerry Meehan - former NHL player and General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres
• Michael Meeks - basketball player
• Beth Phoenix − WWE professional wrestler; Class of 2017 WWE Hall of Famer, former WWE Divas Champion & three-time WWE Women's Champion
• Dick Poillon − early National Football League player
• Mike Rappl '77 – former head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins softball team
• Michael F. Smrek '85 – former professional basketball player, NBA Los Angeles Lakers
• Eyal Yaffe '86 - basketball player, Israeli Basketball Premier League

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