This is a list of people associated with John Carroll University, a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio. This includes faculty, alumni, staff, and former university Presidents. The university was founded as Saint Ignatius College by the Society of Jesus. The university was founded in 1886 and enrolls approximately 4,000 students per year.

Alumni

Media

• Paisley Dodds – AP London Bureau chief
• Tim Russert – former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief; host and moderator of Meet the Press; the university's Department of Communication and Theatre Arts was renamed in his honor May 2009^[1]

Government

• Sara Bloomfield – director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (M.A. from John Carroll University)
• Donald Burkart - State Representative, Wyoming Legislature
• Rick Carfagna – State Representative and Assistant Majority Floor Leader, Ohio House of Representatives
• Anthony J. Celebrezze – Federal Court of Appeals judge, US Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare, Mayor of Cleveland
• Frank D. Celebrezze I – politician; brother of Anthony Celebrezze
• Anne C. Conway – judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• John Cranley – Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
• Timothy J. DeGeeter – state representative, Ohio Legislature and mayor of Parma, Ohio
• Mike Hope – state representative, Washington State Legislature
• Tom McNamara – Mayor of Rockford, Illinois
• Donald J. McConnell – former United States ambassador to Eritrea
• Tom Murphy – former mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Mary Rose Oakar – former Congresswoman (M.A. from John Carroll University)
• Jon Powers – politician, U.S. Army captain, and founder of War Kids Relief
• Paweł Wojciechowski – Polish economist; former Polish minister of finance

Military

• Carter Ham – former general, United States Army, serving as commanding general, U.S. Army, Europe
• John D. Lavelle – General, United States Air Force; 4 stars restored by President Barack Obama, 2010
• Carl E. Walz – United States colonel (Ret.) and astronaut (M.S. from John Carroll University)

Business

• James C. Boland – former vice chairman of Ernst & Young; board member of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Sherwin-Williams, Invacare and SITE Centers
• Charles Dolan – founder of Cablevision and HBO
• Timothy Donahue – former executive chairman of Sprint Nextel
• Jack Kahl, founder of Manco and the Duck Tape brand
• John Rooney – former president and CEO of U.S. Cellular
• Richard J. Kramer – Chairman of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Sports

• Graham Armstrong – American football player
• Tom Arth – professional football player, Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers, former head coach for University of Akron
• David Caldwell – former general manager, Jacksonville Jaguars
• Nick Caley – assistant coach, NFL
• Nick Caserio – general manager, Houston Texans
• Enrique Ecker – former NFL player
• London Fletcher – professional football player, St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Redskins
• Peter Goodwin – former dean, World's Strongest Man
• Wade Manning – former NFL player
• Josh McDaniels – former Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, former head coach for the Denver Broncos
• Dominique Moceanu – Olympic gymnast, member of the Magnificent Seven at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first American gymnastics team to win Olympic gold.
• Brian Polian – college football coach
• Chris Polian – American football scout and executive
• Chuck Priefer – assistant coach, NFL
• Greg Roman – American football coach
• Don Shula – professional football player and Hall of Fame coach, Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins
• Carl Taseff – professional football player and coach, Baltimore Colts, Buffalo Bills, and Miami Dolphins
• Tom Telesco – General Manager, Las Vegas Raiders
• Dave Ziegler – Former General Manager, Las Vegas Raiders

Religion

• Donald Edmond Pelotte – bishop, Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico
• Anthony Edward Pevec – retired auxiliary bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
• Anthony Pilla – retired bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

Academia

• Leonard Calabrese – rheumatologist and internationally recognized researcher, Cleveland Clinic
• James Danko – president, Butler University; former dean, Villanova University, Villanova School of Business
• Paul A. Fleury – dean, Yale University School of Engineering
• John Hardon – Jesuit priest, theologian, and intellectual
• Robert L. Niehoff – Jesuit priest, President Emeritus of John Carroll University
• Germain Grisez-French-American philosopher
• Chad Miller PhD, University of Hawaii: Professor in Philosophy

Arts and entertainment

• Eric Carmen – singer, musician
• Brian P. Cleary – author of more than 25 children's books
• Marcello Hernandez – comedian, new cast member on Saturday Night Live
• Christopher Kempf- poet, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Jack Riley – comedic actor

Other

• David Ferrie – alleged by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in assassination of John F. Kennedy

Faculty

• George Bilgere – poet
• Francesco Cesareo – president of Assumption College, former professor of history at John Carroll University
• Vincent Dethier – insect physiologist and entomologist
• Charles Geschke – co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.^[2]
• Sarah Willis – writer and novelist