Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities. This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of these institutions.
Note: Along with lay men and women, and non-Catholics, included in the list below are also a number of Jesuits.
A Florencio Abad – Philippine lawyer and politician (Ateneo de Manila University) Tony Abbott – Australian Prime Minister (St Ignatius' College, Riverview) Monir Fakhry Abdelnour – Egyptian Minister of Tourism (College de la Sainte Famille) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – Former Indian President and Aerospace Scientist, St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli Robert Abplanalp – inventor of the aerosol valve; founder of Precision Valve Corporation (Fordham Preparatory School) Andy Ackerman – television director and producer, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Two and a Half Men (Santa Clara University) Benigno Aquino Jr. – Philippine politician (Ateneo de Manila University) Benigno Aquino III – Philippine politician and son of Benigno Aquino Jr. (Ateneo de Manila University) Edward Fenech Adami – former President of Malta (St Aloysius' College) Héctor Aguilar Camín – Mexican writer, journalist and historian (Universidad Iberoamericana) José Antonio Aguirre – Basque president (University of Deusto) Carlos Alazraki – President and CEO, Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency (Universidad Iberoamericana) Alan Alda – American movie actor and TV star (Fordham University) Iyad Allawi – Iraqi politician (Baghdad College) Robert Altman – American film director (Rockhurst High School) Don Ameche – American actor (Marquette University) Viswanathan Anand – Indian chess grandmaster (Loyola College) Ivo Andrić – Yugoslavian author and Nobel laureate (Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, Bosnia) Guillermo Arriaga – Mexican screenwriter (Amores Perros), Universidad Iberoamericana Mike Arroyo – husband of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Ateneo de Manila University) Emilio Azcarraga Jean – President and owner, Televisa (Universidad Iberoamericana) APO Hiking Society – Filipino singing group (Ateneo de Manila High School)
B Claude Bachet – French mathematician (pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims) Mohsen Badawi – Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer (Collège de la Sainte Famille) Fr. Eugene Balabin, SJ – Russian Catholic priest, collaborator with Martynov and Gagarin, developer of Jesuit "Slavic" Library at Meudon (attended seminary at Vals near Le-Puy-en-Velay) Jakob Balde – German Latinist and poet (University of Ingolstadt) Donald W. Banner – United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (University of Detroit) José Celso Barbosa – medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader (first racially mixed resident to attend Puerto Rico's Jesuit Seminary) George Barna – American political pollster (Boston College) Kevin Barry – martyr of the Irish War of Independence (Belvedere College) John Barrymore – American Shakespearean actor (Georgetown Preparatory School) Jyoti Basu – Communist politician from West Bengal, India (St. Xavier's Collegiate School) Elgin Baylor – American basketball player (Seattle University) Steve Bellan – Cuban baseball player (Fordham University) Saint Robert Bellarmine – (Gregorian University) Pope Benedict XIV – Italian Pope (Collegium Clementianum) Robert Bennett – prominent Washington, D.C. attorney (Brooklyn Prep, Georgetown College, Georgetown University School of Law) William Bennett – former US Secretary of Education and author (Gonzaga College High School) Tom Benson – New Orleans Saints owner (Loyola University New Orleans) Joseph Berardino – former CEO of Arthur Andersen (Fairfield University) Matt Berninger – singer-songwriter, primarily known as the frontman of indie rock band The National (St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati)) Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ – peace activist, author and professor, Woodstock College (Brooklyn Prep, Le Moyne College, Fordham University) Philip Berrigan – author and activist (College of the Holy Cross) Rubén Berríos – President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola of Puerto Rico) Sabeer Bhatia – founder of Hotmail (St Joseph's College, Bangalore, India) Jacques de Billy – French Jesuit mathematician Joan Biskupic – U.S. Supreme Court journalist (Marquette University and Georgetown University Law Center) William Peter Blatty – American author (Brooklyn Prep and Georgetown University) John Boehner – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Xavier University) Georg Freiherr von Boeselager – German officer (Aloisiuskolleg) Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager – German officer (Aloisiuskolleg) Fr. Jean Bolland, SJ – educator, scholar, researcher, hagiographer; founder of the Bollandists; original editor and author of the Acta Sanctorum (Jesuit colleges at Maastricht and Antwerp, Louvain) Jean-Charles de Borda – French mathematician, physicist, political scientist and sailor (Jesuit college at La Fleche) Julio Borges – Venezuelan activist of Primero Justicia Party (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola de Caracas, Venezuela) Gutzon Borglum – American sculptor (Creighton Preparatory School) Philip Bosco – Tony Award-winning actor (Broadway and Hollywood) (Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey) Roger Boscovich – Croatian Jesuit astronomer (Jesuit College in Ragusa) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet – French bishop and theologian (Collège des Godrans) Charles Bossut – French mathematician, confrere of the Encyclopaedists (Jesuit College of Lyon) Robert Bourassa – Quebec politician (College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal) Pat Bowlen – owner of Denver Broncos (Campion Jesuit Catholic High School) Christopher Brennan – Australian author (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) John O. Brennan – US Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security (Fordham University) Thomas E. Brennan – Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, founder of Cooley Law School (University of Detroit) Carlos Brito – CEO, InBev (educated by Jesuits in his native Brazil) Isaac Broid Zajman – Mexican architect (Universidad Iberoamericana) Till Brönner – German musician (Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn, Germany) Jerry Brown – American politician (St. Ignatius High School and Santa Clara University) John Bruton – former Taoiseach of Ireland (Clongowes Wood College) Zbigniew Brzezinski – Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, United States National Security Advisor (Loyola High School) Pat Buchanan – American journalist (Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown University) William F. Buckley, Jr. – American author, conservative commentator and public intellectual (Beaumont College in England) Clara de Buen Richkarday – Mexican architect (Universidad Iberoamericana) Georges Buffon – French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon) Jim Bunning – American senator and baseball player (Xavier University) Luis Buñuel – Spanish filmmaker (Jesuit College, Aragon, Spain) Daniel Burman – film producer (Universidad Iberoamericana)
C Ryan Cabrera – Colombian musician (Jesuit College Preparatory School) Rafael Caldera – Venezuelan politician (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola Caracas, Venezuela) Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Spanish dramatist (Jesuit College Madrid) Joseph Califano – U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration (Brooklyn Prep and College of the Holy Cross) Daniel J. Callaghan – American admiral who won the Medal of Honor in WWII (St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco) Tom Campbell – American educator and former U.S. Representative from California (St. Ignatius College Prep) William Joseph Campbell – United States District Judge (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) Tony Canadeo – American football player (Gonzaga University) Philip Caputo – American journalist (Loyola University Chicago) Ernesto Cardenal – Nicaraguan priest and poet Charles Carroll of Carrollton – last surviving (and only Catholic) signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland (College of St. Omer in France) Daniel Carroll – American politician, considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (College of St. Omer in Flanders) Archbishop John Carroll, SJ – first American archbishop and founder of Georgetown University (College of St. Omer, Flanders) Robert P. Casey, Sr. – Governor of Pennsylvania (Scranton Preparatory School and College of the Holy Cross) Robert P. Casey, Jr. – US Senator (Scranton Preparatory School and College of the Holy Cross) William Casey – American former director of the CIA (Fordham University) Giovanni Domenico Cassini – Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (Jesuit College at Genoa) Louis Bertrand Castel – French Jesuit mathematician (Jesuit School in Toulouse) Fidel Castro – President of Cuba (Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba) Raúl Castro – President of Cuba (Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba) Paul Cellucci – former Governor of Massachusetts and US Ambassador to Canada (Boston College) Miguel de Cervantes – Spanish author Giovanni Ceva – Italian mathematician (Jesuit College in Milan) Tommaso Ceva – Italian mathematician (Jesuit College of Brera in Milan) François de la Chaise – French priest and father confessor of King Louis XIV; namesake of the Père Lachaise Cemetery (Jesuit College of Lyon) Ahmed Chalabi – Iraqi politician (Baghdad College) Christopher G. Champlin – United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank (College of St. Omer) Marcia Chatelain – winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, alumna of St. Ignatius College Prep Jasti Chelameswar – Judge, Supreme Court of India (Loyola College, Chennai, India) Elwin Bruno Christoffel – German and French mathematician and physicist (Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne) Vincent Cianci – American politician (Fairfield University) Sandra Cisneros – American author (Loyola University Chicago) Walter Ciszek, SJ – American priest, Russian Catholic Church; accused of being a Vatican spy; Gulag survivor; author; spiritual advisor (Collegium Russicum) Tom Clancy, Jr. – American author (Loyola College in Maryland and Loyola High School) Will Clark – American baseball player (Jesuit High School, New Orleans) Patricia Clarkson – Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress (Fordham University) Saint Peter Claver – Roman Catholic saint Christopher Clavius – German Jesuit astronomer Brian P. Cleary – American humorist, poet and author of dozens of books (Cleveland St. Ignatius High School, John Carroll University) Bill Clinton – President of the United States (Georgetown University) Johnnie Cochran – American lawyer (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) Billy Collins – American poet (College of the Holy Cross) Chris Collins – American hockey player (Boston College) Marquis de Condorcet – French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist (Jesuit College in Reims) Harry Connick, Jr – American singer, entertainer, movie actor (Jesuit High School, New Orleans) Pat Conroy – American writer (Gonzaga High School, Washington, DC) (one year) Arthur W. Conway – Irish mathematician and President of University College Dublin, where he had received a Jesuit education as a young man Pierre Corneille – French dramatist E. Gerald Corrigan – American banker, 7th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Fairfield University and Fordham University) Pierre de Coubertin – French pedagogue and historian Bob Cousy – American basketball player (College of the Holy Cross) Thomas Crean – Irish and British and Irish Lions rugby player, doctor and Major in the British army (Clongowes Wood College Co. Kildare and Belvedere College Dublin), Dublin) Darren Criss – American actor (St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco)