football player and writer Tony Campolo – author, pastor, and speaker Anita Cornwell – author Eric Corey Freed – architect, author, public speaker Jeffrey Gitomer – author, speaker, business trainer David Goodis – crime fiction writer Helene Hanff – writer Tom McHale – novelist Ted Polhemus – writer, photographer, anthropologist Jeffrey Robinson – author William Gardner Smith – author and journalist Jerry Spinelli – writer Lamont B. Steptoe – poet, photographer, publisher Tony Trov – science fiction writer Johnny Zito – science fiction writer Music Irving Berlin – honorary degree '54, songwriter Rubén Colón Tarrats – orchestra director Norman Connors - Musician, Composer, Arranger, & Producer Evelyn Simpson Curenton - composer Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz – DJ, producer, rapper, and songwriter Alix Dobkin – singer/songwriter Pat Finnerty – musician, guitarist, and songwriter Joe Genaro – musician, guitarist and songwriter with the Dead Milkmen Ariana Ghez – classic oboist Julie Gold – songwriter, Grammy Award winner Daryl Hall – musician Marc-André Hamelin – pianist Jared Hasselhoff – bassist in band The Bloodhound Gang Mark Kramer – musician, producer-engineer, Mark Kramer Trio Fred Mascherino – musician, Taking Back Sunday, Breaking Pangaea Joe Masteroff – Tony Award-winning playwright Bill McGlaughlin – composer, conductor, radio host of Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday John Oates – musician Eric Owens – opera singer Billy Paul – Grammy Award winner and R&B singer, known for his number one single "Me and Mrs. Jones" and War of the Gods James Poyser – Grammy Award winning keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Fayette Pinkney – original member of The Three Degrees Jimmy Pop – lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang Jill Scott – R&B/soul artist Debbie Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge Joni Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge Kathy Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge Kim Sledge – Singer and member of the disco/R&B group Sister Sledge Allan Slutsky – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Jeffrey Solow – Grammy nominated classical cellist Terell Stafford – professional jazz trumpet player Tim – Korean ballad singer Susan Werner – singer-songwriter Other John C. Allen – roller coaster designer Ted Bundy – serial killer Reed Erickson - transgender activist, engineer, and philanthropist Richard L. Fox - tax attorney Judith E. Glaser – author and organizational anthropologist E. Urner Goodman – early leader of the Boy Scouts