Notable Alumni

Pilams are leaders in every walk of life. Below we list some of our illustrious members. The limitations of space have made it impossible to list them all. You, starting on your college career have the same opportunity as these men. Through sincere effort and sound preparation, your name too, may some day be listed among these illustrious members of Pi Lambda Phi.

JEROME ALEXANDER (CCNY) – scientist; author of Colloid Chemistry; poet; teacher emeritus
PAULO BENEDETI (FAU) – actor/model; Guiding Light; The Bold and the Beautiful
PETER BERCOVITCH (McGill) - Member of Parliament of Quebec
ARMYAN BERNSTEIN – movie producer/writer; Air Force One, Spy Games, 13 Days
RICHARD J. BLUM (PENN) - formerly executive head of Saks-34th Street; civic leader
ERIC BREWER (CAL) - founder of Inktomi Corporation
LOUIS BROIDO (PITT) - former vice president of Gimbels NYC; civic leader
MORTIMER M. CAPLIN (UVA) - Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1961-1964)
BENJAMIN CARDIN (PITT) – U.S. Congressman (D) 3rd District-Baltimore, Maryland (1987-p)
BENNETT CERF (COL) – founder of Random House Publishing; panelist on What’s My Line?
HOWARD COSELL (NYU) – sportscaster; Wide World of Sports, Monday Night Football
DAVID A. CROLL (TOR) - Member of Parliament, Canada; mayor of Windsor (1931-34, 1939-40)
MARK CUBAN (PITT) - founder of Broadcast.com; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
HARRISON DILLARD (BWC) - Olympic gold medallist for 100m sprint (‘48) & 110m hurdle (’52)
ELIOT ENGEL (LEH/HUN) – U.S. Congressman (D) 17th District-New York (1988-p)
SIMON FABIAN (NYU) – president of Fabian Theater; civic leader
LEON FALK, JR. (YALE) – trustee, U. of Pittsburgh; founder of the Falk Foundation of Pittsburgh
BARRY FARBER (UNC) – talk radio host; Talk America Radio Network
PROF. RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (MIT) – 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics
DAVID GARTH (W&J) - media consultant
ARTIS GILMORE (JAX) - All Pro center for Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics
RANDY GROSSMAN (TEM) – tight end for Pittsburgh Steelers (1974- )
MOSES HARTMAN (COL) - former Justice of the United States Circuit Court
ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS (CCNY) – cofounder of the ACLU; orator; author
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (COL) - theater producer; Oklahoma, The King & I, South Pacific
JOSEPH C. HYMAN (NYU) – executive vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Company
NATHAN L. JACOBS (PENN) - Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
KEVIN JAMES (CORT) - comedian/actor; star of King of Queens
JIMMY JOHNSON (UCLA) - Hall of Fame cornerback for San Francisco 49ers (1961-76)
RAFER L. JOHNSON (UCLA) - Olympic gold medal decathlete (’60); former world record holder
MURRAY KATZ (MIAMI) - founder and president of Empire Kosher Chicken
THEODORE KEY (CAL) - creator of TV show Hazel (1943)
THEODORE W. KHEEL (COL) – arbitrator; National Labor Relations Board; president, NYUL
HERBERT KOHL (WISC) – U. S. Senator (D) Wisconsin; owner of the Milwaukee Bucks
SANFORD “SANDY” KOUFAX (CINN) – pitcher for Brooklyn/Los Angles Dodgers (1955-67); Baseball Hall of Fame (1972)
STANLEY KRAMER (NYU) – producer/director; High Noon; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
RUDY LARUSSO (DART) – forward for Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers (1959- )
ELLIOT LAWRENCE (COR) – composer; Bye, Bye Birdie; The Unsinkable Molly Brown
ENOCH LIGHT (HOPKINS) – conductor/composer; pioneered stereo & quadraphonic recording
ARTHUR M. LOEW (NYU) – former president of Loew's International Corporation
DAVID L. LOEW (NYU) – film producer; The Southerner; A Night in Casablanca
JOSEPH LOHMAN – Illinois State Treasurer (1959-61)
HERBERT H. MAASS (COL) – attorney; president of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
ABBY MANN (TEMPLE) – Academy & Emmy Award winning author/screen writer; Judgement at Nuremberg, Kojak
MICHAEL MANN (WISC) - executive producer of Miami Vice; Academy Award winning director; Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Ali
TONY MARTIN (CINN) - radio, TV, and movie star; Here Come the Girls; Show Boat
SAMUAL NULL (COL) - Supreme Court Justice, New York and Bronx County, New York
JEROME K. OHRBACH (COR) - vice president of Ohrbach's Inc.; civic leader
EDWARD RENDELL (PENN) – 121st mayor of Philadelphia
RICHARD RODGERS (COL) – theater composer/writer; Oklahoma; The Sound of Music
AL ROSEN (MIAMI) – Indians 3rd baseman (1947-56); past president, Yankees & Astros; former general manager of San Francisco Giants
MORRIS V. ROSENBLOOM (PITT) - public relations counselor; Who's Who in America; founder and president of American Surveys, Washington D.C.
RICHARD SAVITT (COR) – first Jew to win Wimbledon (‘51); former member of Davis Cup Team
ALLEN “BUD” SELIG (WISC) - Commissioner of Major League Baseball
BUDD SCHULBERG (DART) – Academy Award winning author/screen writer; On the Waterfront
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ (NYU) – composer/producer for stage, motion pictures and television
ARCHIE M. SLAWSBY (MICH) – former president, National Association of Insurance Agents
ARLEN SPECTER (PENN) – U. S. Senator (D) Pennsylvania; member of the Warren Commission
LEIGH STEINBERG (UCLA) - sports agent for Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Ryan Leaf, etc.
LAWRENCE A. STEINHARDT (YALE) - former Ambassador to Sweden, Peru, Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and Canada
ARON STEUER (COL) - New York Supreme Court Justice
JOSEPH WEIL (FLA) - former Dean of Engineering, U of F; former president, Florida Engineering
SIDNEY YATES (CHI) – U.S. Congressman (D) 9th District-Chicago, Illinois
JACK YELLEN (NYU) – lyricist/producer; Happy Days are Here Again
JAMES A. ZIMBLE (F&M) - Vice Admiral & 30th Surgeon General of Navy