Norm Kent, BA 1971, attorney, publisher, (South Florida Gay News) radio talk show host, (Norm Kent Show ) of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
Jeff Korek, New York City-based trial lawyer; partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, a personal injury law firm
Mary Matalin, political consultant for the Republican Party; advisor to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney (attended but did not graduate)
Mike D'Amato, NFL defensive back, Oakland and New York Jets; Super Bowl III winner; Lacrosse All-American for Hofstra; only person to be All-American in lacrosse and win a Super Bowl
Monroe Freedman, Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics; former HLS Dean (1973–77); author of Lawyers' Ethics in an Adversarial System (1975), the seminal work on lawyer-client privilege
Robert W. Greene (1929-2008), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor of journalism and mass media studies
Gary Gruber, professor, author, testing expert, physicist, educator
Tammy Hensrud, opera singer and adjunct professor of voice
Harvey J. Levin, former University Research Professor, first holder of Augustus B. Weller Chair in Economics, communications economics author and government consultant[15]
^Vermont Senate (2019). "Biography, Senator Dick McCormack". legislature.vermont.gov. Montpelier, VT: Vermont General Assembly. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
^Strickland, Carol. "Novelist Uses The Island's Gold Coast As A Setting For A Clash of Cultures", The New York Times, April 8, 1990. Accessed December 13, 2007. "Mr. De Mille was born in Jamaica, Queens, and educated at Elmont High School and Hofstra University, and so he knows the area well, although he calls himself a member in good standing of the middle class."