An Eagle, in general, is a nickname for a person who graduated from Boston College High School

Boston College High School

Founded in 1863, Boston College High School is an all-male Jesuit Roman Catholic college preparatory secondary school with historical ties to Boston College. It has an enrollment in grades 7-12 of approximately 1,500 students and is located on a campus on Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester...

 or a Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 school, typically as an undergraduate, or as a graduate student, including Boston College Law School

Boston College Law School

Boston College Law School is one of the six professional graduate schools at Boston College. Located approximately 1.5 miles from the main Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Boston College Law School is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts.With approximately 800 students and...

. The name is derived from the school's
nickname

Athletic nickname

The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams...

 (Eagles

Eagle

Eagles are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in...

) and mascot

Mascot

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 (Baldwin the Eagle

Baldwin the Eagle

Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles.The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat after a track victory, wrote to the college newspaper...

).

A person who graduated from BC High and one of the BC schools is known as a "double Eagle". A BC High alumnus

Alumnus

An alumnus , according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is "a graduate of a school, college, or university." An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor or inmate as well as a former student. In addition, an alumna is "a female graduate or former student of a school, college,...

 who has both an undergraduate and law degree or other graduate degrees from Boston College is known as a "triple Eagle".

Notable Double Eagles

• Paul Loscocco
  Paul Loscocco
  Paul J.P. Loscocco is a former Massachusetts Republican State Representative and candidate for Lieutenant Governor in the 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election....
  
  
• Silvio O. Conte
  Silvio O. Conte
  Silvio Ottavio Conte was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for 16 terms, from January 3, 1959, until his death.-Birth:...
  
  
• Michael F. Flaherty
  Michael F. Flaherty
  Michael F. Flaherty is a former at-large member of the Boston City Council. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected to Boston City Council Vice President in 2001 and Boston City Council President from 2002 to 2006....
  
  
• Mike Ingoldsby
• Patrick M. Lane
• Ronald Logue
  Ronald Logue
  Ronald E. Logue is Chairman of the Board of State Street Corporation , formerly Chief Executive Officer as Jay Hooley assumed that title March 1, 2010 in addition to his role as President. Logue was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Prior to that he held a number of...
  
  
• Ed Markey
  Ed Markey
  Edward John "Ed" Markey is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Boston's northern and western suburbs, such as Medford and Framingham. Markey is the Dean of both the Massachusetts and New England House delegations...
  
  
• John A. McNeice Jr
  John A. McNeice Jr
  John A. McNeice Jr of Canton, Massachusetts is a noted philanthropist and the former Chairman and CEO of the Colonial Group. As of 27 June 2006, he serves on the Board of Trustees of both Boston College and Boston College High School. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Weston Jesuit...
  
  
• Daniel A. Seymour
• David Sorgi
• Jerry York
  Jerry York
  Jerry York is the Men's Hockey Coach at Boston College. He graduated from Boston College High School in 1963 and BC in 1967. York is currently the winningest active coach in NCAA hockey, and is 2nd on the all-time list with 889 wins behind retired Coach Ron Mason...
  
  
• Steve Trapilo
  Steve Trapilo
  Stephen Paul "Steve" Trapilo was a former professional American football Guard in the National Football League. He attended Boston College...
  
  
• Mark Grady

Notable Triple Eagles

• Garrett Bradley, Massachusetts politician
• William Bulger, Massachusetts politician
• Robert V. Costello, Massachusetts lawyer, former president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
• John Curtin, Massachusetts lawyer, former president of the American Bar Association
• Raymond Kenney, former president of the Massachusetts Bar Association
• Michael A. Sullivan
  Michael A. Sullivan
  Michael A. Sullivan is the Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and served two terms as mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Michael is a member of the Sullivan family of Cambridge. He is the third generation in his family to be the mayor of Cambridge following his father and...
  
  , former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• David P. Twomey, professor, Boston College