This is a list of influential and newsworthy people affiliated with Emory University, a private university in Atlanta. The list includes professors, staff, graduates, and former students belonging to one of Emory's two undergraduate or seven graduate schools.

Alumni

Pulitzer Prize

Ellen Gabler Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter for ''The New York Times'' and a member of a team awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Early life and education Gabler attended Memorial High School in her native Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I ...

(BA 2003) – investigative reporter for the ''New York Times''; member of a team awarded the 2018

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

for Public Service *

Louis R. Harlan Louis Rudolph Harlan (July 13, 1922 – January 22, 2010) was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materi ...

(BA 1943) – American historian and academic, winner of the

in 1984 *

Frank Main Frank Main is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from Chicago, Illinois. Early life Main was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1964. He grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Bishop Kelley High School in 1982. He graduated from Emory ...

(BA 1986) – Pulitzer Prize-winning (2011) reporter for the ''Chicago Sun Times'' * Dumas Malone (BA 1910) – 1975

-winning historian, former head of Harvard University Press and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient *

David M. Potter David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the American South and the American Civil War. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, graduated from the Academy of Richmond County, an ...

(BA 1931) – Southern historian and

winner (1977) * Claude Sitton (BA 1943) – Pulitzer Prize winner (1983) and former ''New York Times'' national editor *

C. Vann Woodward Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of un ...

(BA 1930) – 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Academia

Presidents of academic institutions

Philip A. Amerson Philip Amos Amerson (born January 1, 1946) is a theological educator, pastor and social researcher. He served as president of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and the Claremont School of Theology. Early life and education Amerson was bo ...

(PhD 1976) – President of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary *

Ivan Loveridge Bennett Ivan Loveridge Bennett, Jr. (March 4, 1922 – July 22, 1990) was an American physician who was dean of the NYU School of Medicine and served as president of New York University 1980–1981. Bennett was educated at Emory University where he was a ...

(BA 1943, MD 1946) – physician, dean of the NYU School of Medicine, president of New York University 1980–1981 * Robert G. Bottoms (BD 1969) – former president of DePauw University *

Marion L. Brittain Marion Luther Brittain Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953) was an American academic administrator and longest serving President of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944. Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief s ...

(BA 1886) – academic administrator, president of the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

1922–1944 * Charles Paul Conn (MA, PhD) – president of

Lee University Lee University is a private Christian university in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was originally the Church of God Bible Training School, a small Bible institute founded in 1918 with twelve students and one teacher, Nora I. Chambers. The school grew ...

in Cleveland, Tennessee *

James H. Daughdrill, Jr. James Harold Daughdrill Jr. (April 25, 1934 – May 3, 2014) was the 18th president of Rhodes College. He was installed as president in 1973 and retired in 1999. He was the son of James Harold Daughdrill and Louisa Coffee Dozier. In 1964, he was ...

(BA 1956) – 18th president of Rhodes College *

Arthur Hollis Edens Arthur Hollins Edens (February 14, 1901 – August 7, 1968) served as President of Duke University from 1949 to 1960. Duke's third president after the school's expansion from college to university, Edens was first president hired from outside the ...

(BA 1928, MA 1938) – 3rd president of Duke University *

Andrew D. Holt Andrew David Holt (December 4, 1904 – August 7, 1987) was an American educator who was the 16th president of the University of Tennessee, filling that position from 1959 to 1970.Milton M. KleinAndrew D. Holt, UT's Sixteenth President (1959-1970), ...

(BA 1927) – 16th president of the University of Tennessee *

Isaac Stiles Hopkins Isaac Stiles Hopkins (June 20, 1841 – February 3, 1914) was a professor and the first President of the Georgia Institute of Technology (1888–1896) as well as pastor of the First Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Biography Hopkins was ...

( Bachelor's degree 1859) – first president of the

Robert Stewart Hyer Robert Stewart Hyer (October 18, 1860 – May 29, 1929) was an educator and researcher in Texas noted for experimenting with early X-ray and telegraphy equipment. He served as president of Southwestern University before becoming the first presiden ...

(BA 1881, MA 1882) – president of Southwestern University, first president of Southern Methodist University, educator and researcher in Texas, noted for experimenting with early X-ray and telegraphy equipment * James F. Jones (Master's degree) – 21st president of

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

, Hartford, Connecticut *

Howard Lamar Howard Roberts Lamar (born November 18, 1923) is an American historian of the American West. In addition to being Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University since 1994, he served as Acting President of Yale University from 1992 to ...

(BA 1945) – former dean of Yale College and former president of Yale University * Michael Lomax (PhD 1984) – President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Negro College Fund, former president of Dillard University (1997–2004) *

Ward B. Pafford Ward B. Pafford (October 25, 1911 – January 23, 2011) was a chairman of the English Department at Emory University from 1953 to 1958, Dean of Valdosta State University from 1966 to 1971, and fourth president of the University of West Georgia from ...

(BA) – 3rd president of the University of West Georgia *John M. Palms – President of the University of South Carolina, 1991–2002 *

Luis M. Proenza Luis Mariano Proenza (born Dec. 22, 1944) is an American academic, and the former president of The University of Akron. He was a member of two advisory committees to US presidents. Biography Proenza holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from E ...

– 15th president of the University of Akron *Luther Martin Smith (BA 1848) – first president of Emory University who also was an alumnus (1867–1871) *

Henry King Stanford Henry King Stanford (April 22, 1916 – January 1, 2009) was the interim president of the University of Georgia (UGA) from 1986 through 1987 and the third president of the University of Miami from 1962 to 1981. Stanford's prior academic administ ...

(BA) – 19th president of the University of Georgia and 3rd president of the University of Miami *

G. Gabrielle Starr Gina Gabrielle Starr (born 1974) is an American literary scholar, neuroscientist, and academic administrator who is the List of Pomona College people#Presidents of Pomona College, 10th president of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Clare ...

(BA 1993, MA 1993) – president of Pomona College in Claremont, California * Robert M. Strozier – former president of

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...

* Frederick Palmer Whiddon (PhD 1963) – founder and first president of the University of South Alabama

Professors

Amalia Amaki Amalia K. Amaki (born Lynda Faye Peek, July 8, 1949) is an African-American artist, art history, art historian, educator, film critic and curator who recently resided in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she was Professor of Modern and Contemporary Ar ...

(MA, PhD) – artist, art historian *

Randall Auxier Randall E. Auxier (born August 7, 1961) is a professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, a musician, environmental activist, union advocate, and candidate (2018) for the United States House of Re ...

(PhD 1992) – professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University *

Jim Chen Jim Chen is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law. He holds the Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law at Michigan State University College of Law. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the dean of the University of Louisv ...

(BA, MA) – Dean of the University of Louisville,

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law The University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, commonly referred to as The University of Louisville School of Law, U of L Brandeis School of Law, or the Brandeis School of Law, is the law school of the University of Louisville. ...

Don H. Compier Don H. Compier became Dean of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry in Topeka, KS, in July 2014. BKSM is a joint project of the Episcopal Dioceses of Nebraska, Western Kansas, Kansas, and West Missouri. It uniquely seeks to educate candidates for o ...

(PhD 1992) – founding dean of the

Community of Christ Seminary The Community of Christ Seminary at the Independence campus of Graceland University is the official and only seminary A seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (s ...

Graceland University Graceland University is a private university with campuses in Lamoni, Iowa, and Independence, Missouri. The university offers degree completion and master's degree programs at satellite campuses in Centerville and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Trento ...

* Cherry Logan Emerson (BA 1938, MA 1939) – Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation founder and distinguished faculty member *

Etta Falconer Etta Zuber Falconer (21 November 1933 – 19 September 2002) was an educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College, where she eventually served as department head and associate provost. She was one of the ear ...

(PhD 1969) – educator and mathematician, one of the first female African-American PhDs in math *

Elizabeth Price Foley Elizabeth Price Foley (born 1965) is a conservative American legal theorist who writes and comments in the fields of constitutional law, bioethics, and health care law. She is a Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, ...

(BA 1987) – legal theorist *

Ted Gayer Ted Gayer (born May 8, 1970) is an United States of America, American economics, economist and the president of the Niskanen Center. He is formerly the executive vice president of the Brookings Institution, where he also once served as the vice pr ...

(BA 1992) – economist, associate professor at

Georgetown Public Policy Institute The McCourt School of Public Policy is one of ten constituent schools of Georgetown University. The McCourt School offers master's degrees in public policy, international development policy, policy management, data science for public policy, and ...

Margot Gayle Margot McCoy Gayle (Born Sarah Margaret McCoy May 14, 1908 – September 28, 2008) was an American historic preservationist, activist, and writer. She led the effort to designate the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District, which preserved Victoria ...

(MS Bacteriology) – former American historic preservationist and author *

Lassie Goodbread-Black Lassie Moore Goodbread was an American farmer and educator who, in 1925, became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida in the University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture. In 2000, Goodbre ...

(MA 1944) – farmer and educator; in 1925, became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida *

(BA 1943) – historian and academic, winner of the

in 1984 *

Valerie Horsley Valerie Horsley is an American cell and developmental biologist. She currently works as an associate professor at Yale University, where she has extensively researched the growth, restoration, and maintenance of skin cells. She is a currently a me ...

(PhD 2003) – biologist *

William Kelso William M. Kelso, C.B.E., Ph. D., F.S.A. (born 1941), often referred to as Bill Kelso, is an American archaeologist specializing in Virginia's colonial period, particularly the Jamestown colony. Personal life A native of Lakeside, Ohio, Kelso ea ...

(PhD 1971) – archaeologist, director of research and interpretation for the Preservation Virginia (APVA) Jamestown Rediscovery project *

Ben Konop Benjamin Zachary Konop (born March 1, 1976) is a Senior Litigation Counsel in the Office of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C. He also was a law professor and attorney in private practice. In 2006, Konop ...

(BA) – Lucas County Commissioner, an attorney and law professor at Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law and the

University of Toledo College of Law The University of Toledo College of Law is the law school at the University of Toledo, and is located on the university's main campus in a residential neighborhood in western Toledo, Ohio. The school is fully accredited by the American Bar Associ ...

* Amy Malek (BA 2003) – professor, scholar, and sociocultural

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

; department chair and director at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. *

Magali Cornier Michael Magali Cornier Michael is a literary scholar, Professor of English, former Chair of the English Department, and current Associate Dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University. She is also a co-founder and ...

(MA, PhD) – feminist literary scholar, Professor of English, and current chair of the English Department at Duquesne University *

Jacob Mincer Jacob Mincer (July 15, 1922 – August 20, 2006), was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia University for most of his active life. Biography Born in Tomaszów ...

(BA 1950) – "father" of labor economics and Chicago School member *

Howard W. Odum Howard Washington Odum (May 24, 1884 – November 8, 1954) was an American sociologist and author who researched African-American life and folklore. Beginning in 1920, he served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, founding ...

(BA 1904) – sociologist *

Susan Pharr Susan J. Pharr (born March 16, 1944) is an academic in the field of political science, a Japanologist, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, director of Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relati ...

(BA 1966) – academic in the field of political science, Japanologist *

Elaine Reese Jeanne Elaine Reese is an American-New Zealand psychology academic. Academic career After a PhD at Emory University on early-childhood literacy, Reese moved to the University of Otago, where she rose to full professor in 2012. Reese has rece ...

(PhD) - academic psychologist, focuses on early language acquisition. *

James I. Robertson, Jr. James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. (July 18, 1930 – November 2, 2019) was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech. Early life and academic career Robertson was born on July 18, 1930, and raised in Danville, ...

(MA 1956, PhD 1959) – scholar on the American Civil War, professor at Virginia Tech *

Jeffrey Burton Russell Jeffrey Burton Russell (born 1934) is an American historian and religious studies scholar. Early life Russell received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1955 and his PhD from Emory University in 1960. Care ...

(PhD) – an American historian and religious studies scholar * Barton C. Shaw (PhD) – historian, professor at Cedar Crest College *

Christopher Snyder Christopher Allen Snyder is the Dean of Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University, in Starkville, Mississippi. He was previously a professor of European history and director of the Honors Program at Marymount University, in Arli ...

(MA, PhD) – professor of European history and director of the National Celtic Heritage Center at Marymount University *

Melissa Wade Melissa Wade has been the Director of Forensics at Emory University, and the head coach of the school's award-winning policy debate team, the Barkley Forum, since 1972. She has been awarded every national coaching award in her field, and has bee ...

(BA 1972, MA 1976, M.T.S. 1996, Th. M 2000) – debate coach and leader in the Urban debate league movement, director of

Forensics Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and crimina ...

and the

Barkley Forum The Barkley Forum is the intercollegiate debate and forensics organization at Emory University. It is named after Emory alumnus and former United States Vice-President Alben W. Barkley. Debate at Emory began in the 1830s. The literary societies t ...

at Emory University *Judson C. "Jake" Ward Jr. (BA 1933) – Dean of Emory College, later received the Award of Honor of the Association of Emory Alumni, Thomas Jefferson Award, and the Freedom Foundation Award * Sean Wempe (PhD 2015) – assistant professor of history, California State University, Bakersfield; author of ''Revenants of the German Empire. Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations'' and ''Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective'' *

Enoch Marvin Banks Enoch Marvin Banks (November 28, 1877 – November 21, 1911) was an American historian and professor at the University of Florida. In 1911, after the publication of an article attributing the cause of the American Civil War to slavery and critic ...

(BA 1897, MA 1900) – academic historian at the University of Florida

Business

* Nelson Adams (internship 1979 and residency 1982) – physician, President of the

National Medical Association The National Medical Association (NMA) is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and their patients in the United States. The NMA is a 501(c)(3) national professional and scientific organization repr ...

, founder and president of Access Health Solutions, LLC *Paul S. Amos II (MBA) – President and CEO of Aflac *Michael Blum – President and CEO of

Orix USA ORIX Corporation USA (ORIX USA) is a financial services group established in 1981 in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population ...

Asset Management LLC, global financial services firm with offices in 27 countries and a market capitalization of over $11 billion *

Ely Callaway Ely Reeves Callaway Jr. (1919-2001) was an American businessman. He founded the Callaway Golf Company in 1982. Early life Ely Callaway was born in 1919 and raised in LaGrange, Georgia and earned a degree from Emory University. At age 10 he ear ...

(BA 1940) – founder of Callaway Golf *

Mitch Caplan Mitchell H. Caplan is a former CEO of E-Trade Financial Corporation. Background Caplan grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from the Norfolk Academy in 1975. He subsequently received a BA in history from Brandeis University – lat ...

(MBA, JD) – former CEO of E-Trade * John W. Chidsey (MBA, JD) – former CEO of

Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American-based multinational chain store, chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based res ...

* Kenneth Cole (BA 1976)) – clothing designer *

Harlan Crow Harlan Rogers Crow (born 1949) is an American real estate developer from Dallas, Texas. Early life Harlan Crow was born in Dallas, the third son of Margaret Doggett Crow and real estate developer Trammell Crow. He has four brothers and one siste ...

– real estate developer from Dallas, Texas * Aaron Davidson – Chairman of the

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League may refer to: *North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league *North American Soccer League (2011–2017) The North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional men's soccer league b ...

and President of

Traffic Sports USA Traffic Sports USA, based in Miami, is a soccer event management company in the North American, Central American and Caribbean region. Operation A division of Traffic Group, Traffic Sports USA has been responsible for organizing and/or commercial ...

*Michael Dubin (BA 2001) – CEO of

Dollar Shave Club Dollar Shave Club is an American company based in Venice, California, that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail. It delivers razor blades on a monthly basis and offers additional grooming products for home del ...

*Marvin Ellison (MBA 2005) – Executive Vice President of U.S. stores,

Home Depot The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational corporation, multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the l ...

Nir Eyal Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer, and investor known for his bestselling book, ''Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products''. Biography Nir Eyal was born on February 19, 1980, in Hadera, Israel. When he was three, his f ...

(BA 2001) – writer, educator, and entrepreneur in the field of consumer psychology and behavioral design * Jason Goldberg (dropped out) – internet entrepreneur * Michael Golden (MBA) – Vice Chairman of The New York Times Company * Michael Golden (MBA) – President and CEO of Smith & Wesson *

C. Robert Henrikson Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born May 21, 1947) was the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. Henrikson was succ ...

(JD 1972) – Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Metlife, Inc. *Susan Hoy (Law 1974) – Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Vice President for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Emory Law School Distinguished Alumni award recipient in 2008 *Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. (BA 1975) – Chairman of Publix Super Markets, Inc. * Alan J. Lacy (MBA 1977) – former chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company * Jim Lanzone (JD and MBA) – former CEO of

Ask.com Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California, Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from ...

, former CEO of

Clicker A clicker, sometimes called a cricket, is any device that makes a clicking sound, usually when deliberately activated by its user. They usually consist of a piece of thin metal or plastic held in a casing so that the metal is slightly torqued; ...

, current CEO of CBS Interactive *

Robert A. Maruster The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(MBA) – executive vice president and chief operating officer of JetBlue Airways *Teri Plummer McClure (Law 1988) – senior vice president and general counsel of United Parcel Service; Emory Law School Distinguished Alumni award recipient in 2008 * Raymond W. McDaniel Jr. (JD) – chairman and chief executive officer of Moody's Corporation * Richard H. Neiman (JD) – 43rd Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York *Duncan L. Niederauer (MBA 1985) – CEO, NYSE Euronext *

Djuan Rivers Djuan Rivers was the Vice President of Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World from 2014 until May of 2021. He previously served as Vice President for Hotels and Business Solutions at Disneyland Paris after having been General Manager of the ...

(BA 1987) – Vice President of

Disney's Animal Kingdom Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park is a zoological theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division, it is the l ...

at Walt Disney World *

John B. Sams John B. Sams Jr. is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and former vice president of the Air Force Systems business unit, part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. He is a former chairman of the board of visitors at The Citadel a ...

(Advanced Management Program 1988) – Vice President of the Air Force Systems business unit, part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems * Philip Schwalb (Law 1986) – founder of the

Sports Museum of America The Sports Museum of America (SmA) was the United States' first national sports museum dedicated to the history and cultural significance of Sports in the United States, sports in America. It opened in May 2008 and closed less than nine months lat ...

in New York City * Rankin M. Smith Sr. (attended one year, then transferred to the University of Georgia) – businessman and philanthropist *Jack Stahl (BA 1975) – former president and CEO of Revlon, former president and COO of Coca-Cola *

A.J. Steigman Allen "A. J." Steigman (born June 23, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, chess player, and former investment banker. Steigman is currently CEO of Steignet.com. Biography Steigman was born in Orlando, Florida, and grew up in Coral Springs, Flor ...

(BBA 2008) - Founder and CEO of Steignet * Ben J. Tarbutton (BA 1905) – businessman and politician *

Emory Williams Emory Williams, Sr. (October 26, 1911 – February 11, 2014) was an American businessman and entrepreneur. He was the chief financial officer of Sears Roebuck during the 1960s, when Sears was the largest retailer in the world. He went on to becom ...

, Sr. (BA 1932) – retired corporate executive of Sears Roebuck and civic leader in Chicago, namesake of the "Emory Williams Teaching Award" at Emory University *

Robert W. Woodruff Robert Winship Woodruff (December 6, 1889 – March 7, 1985) was an American businessman who served as the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1985. With a large net worth, he was also a major philanthropist, and many educational ...

(one term as an undergraduate) – former president of the Coca-Cola Company, gave over $230 million to Emory University, namesake of its Woodruff Health Sciences Center and the Robert W. Woodruff Library

Arts and letters

Film and television

Orny Adams Orny may refer to: * Orny, Vaud, Switzerland * Orny, Moselle, a commune of the Moselle ''département'', in France * Orny Adams (b. 1970), American comedian {{Disambig ...

(BA 1993) – actor, comedian (''

Teen Wolf ''Teen Wolf'' is a 1985 American coming-of-age romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Rod Daniel and written by Jeph Loeb and Matthew Weisman. Michael J. Fox stars as the title character, a high school student whose ordinary life is changed ...

'') * Erica Ash (BA) – actress and comedian *Scott Budnick (BA 1999) – film producer ('' The Hangover'') * Fala Chen (BBA 2005) – Chinese-American actress, two-time TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actress winner, model, and pageant winner *

Joel Godard Joel Clinton Godard Jr. (born March 31, 1938) is an American television announcer and voiceover artist, best known as the announcer for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' during its entire 16-year run from 1993 to 2009.Joel Godard's official websit ...

(BA 1960) – television announcer for '' Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' * Ernie Harwell (BA 1940) – baseball broadcaster * Glenda Hatchett (JD 1977) – star of the television show ''

Judge Hatchett ''Judge Hatchett'' is an American arbitration-based reality court show, produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. The series premiered on September 4, 2000 and ran for eight seasons until its cancellation on May 23, 2008. It was Sony ...

'' *

Dr. Will Kirby William Terence Kirby (born January 2, 1973), popularly known as Dr. Will, is an American aesthetic dermatologist, an associate clinical professor of dermatology, and a reality television personality. He is known for winning the CBS reality show ...

(BS 1995) – celebrity dermatologist, authority on laser tattoo removal, winner of ''

Big Brother Big Brother may refer to: * Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four''), a character from George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' ** Authoritarian personality, any omnipresent figure representing oppressive control ** Big Brother Awards, a sat ...

'' and star of ''

Dr. 90210 ''Dr. 90210'' is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills, California. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2008 on E!. ''Dr. 90210'' gets its name from the zip code of ...

'' *

Justin Lazard Justin Lazard (born November 30, 1967) is an American retired actor, producer, director, and model. Early life Lazard was born in New York, but raised in Connecticut. His father, Sidney Lazard, is a former foreign correspondent, and his mother, ...

(attended) – actor, producer, director, and model *

Natalia Livingston Natalia Livingston (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Emily Quartermaine (for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award) and Rebecca Shaw on ABC's ''General Hospital'', and for playing Taylor Walker on the NBC ...

(BA 1998) – Emmy Award-winning actress on the soap opera ''

General Hospital ''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the list of longest-running television shows by category, longest-running American soap opera in pro ...

'' * George Page (BA 1957) – television host, known for his work on the PBS series ''Nature'' * Adam Richman (BA 1996) – actor, host of ''

Man v. Food ''Man v. Food'' is an American food reality television series. It premiered on December 3, 2008 on the Travel Channel. The program was originally hosted by actor and food enthusiast Adam Richman. In each episode, Richman explores the "big food" o ...

'' on the Travel Channel * Jim Sarbh (BA 2009) – actor in the Hindi film industry * Stephen Schneider (BA) – actor ('' Broad City'') *Eugene Williams, Jr. (BA 1991) – former child actor, known for

Fruit of the Loom Fruit of the Loom is an American company that manufactures clothing, particularly casual wear and underwear. The company's world headquarters is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Since 2002 it has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Products manu ...

commercials; author, educator, motivational speaker *

Antonia Gentry Antonia Bonea Gentry (born September 25, 1998) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Virginia "Ginny" Miller in the Netflix series '' Ginny & Georgia'' (2021–present). Early life and education Antonia Gentry was born in A ...

(BA 2019) – actress, star of the Netflix Original ''

Ginny and Georgia ''Ginny & Georgia'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Sarah Lampert that was released on Netflix on February 24, 2021. In April 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 5, 2023. In May 2 ...

Journalism and non-fiction writing

* David Brinkley – journalist and television newscaster *

Doug DeMuro Douglas DeMuro (born May 22, 1988) is an American YouTuber, author, columnist, writer, and Internet entrepreneur who currently lives in San Diego, California. DeMuro's focus is on the automotive industry; his car review-focused YouTube channel h ...

– automotive journalist for Jalopnik and later editor at Autotrader Oversteer *

Adam Feuerstein Adam Feuerstein is an American blogger and columnist covering the biotechnology sector. Education Adam Feuerstein completed a bachelor's degree in political science at Emory University. Career Feuerstein covered business, technology, and comm ...

– columnist and journalist in biotechnology sector *

Laura Foreman Laura Foreman (died 2001) was a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, writer and director of dance at New School University. She lived and worked in New York City from the mid-1960s until her death. Biography Foreman worked primarily in danc ...

(BA 1965) – journalist and the first woman political writer at '' The Philadelphia Inquirer''. *Charles Haynes – Director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, DC and senior scholar at the First Amendment Center *

Michelle Ye Hee Lee Michelle Ye Hee Lee (born June 13, 1988) is an American journalist who is currently serving as the Tokyo bureau chief of ''The Washington Post''. She previously served as the president of the Asian American Journalists Association. Early lif ...

- journalist, '' The Washington Post'' *

(BA 1986) – Pulitzer Prize-winning (2011) reporter for the ''Chicago Sun Times'' * Eleanor Randolph – journalist, '' The New York Times'' *

Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal (; born October 8, 1963) is an American radio journalist and the host of ''Marketplace'', a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. He also co-hosts the spinoff podcast ''Make Me Smart'' with Kimberly Adams. ...

(BA 1985) – host of '' Marketplace'', a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations affiliated with American Public Media * Mike Sager (BA 1978) – bestselling author and award-winning journalist *

Jonathan Schanzer Jonathan Schanzer is an American author and senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He oversees the work of the organization's experts and scholars. Professional overview Schanzer was a Research Fellow at ...

– author and scholar in Middle Eastern studies * Bill Sharpe –

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

news anchor * Claude Sitton (BA 1943) – Pulitzer Prize winner (1983) and former ''New York Times'' national editor *

Touré Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (English transcriptions are '' Turay'' and '' Touray''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan e ...

(attended) – novelist, journalist, cultural critic

Literature and poetry

* H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (BA 1963) – author best known for his book ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' *

Nicole Cooley Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. She has authored six collections of poems, including ''Resurrection'', ''Breach'', ''Milk Dress'', and ''Of Marriage''. Her work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Field'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ...

(PhD) – poet *

Alfred Corn Alfred Corn (born August 14, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. Early life Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia in 1943 and raised in Valdosta, Georgia. Corn graduated from Emory University in 1965 with a B.A. in French literature ...

(BA 1965) – poet and essayist *

Elizabeth Otis Dannelly Elizabeth Otis Dannelly ( Marshall; June 13, 1838 – March 21, 1896) was a 19th-century American writer of Southern poetry. Born in Georgia, she was the author, ''Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms'' and ''Wayside Flowers''. Early life and educat ...

(1838–1896) – poet * Norman Finkelstein (PhD) – poet and literary critic * Ken Grimwood (attended 1961–1963) – novelist, author of prize-winning novel ''

Replay Replay may refer to: * Replay (sports), a replayed match between two sport teams Technology * Game replay, a recording of a game session. * Instant replay, in motion pictures and television, a showing again of part of a film * Replay Professional, ...

'', set at Emory *

Olga Grushin Olga Grushin (born June 1971) is a Russian-American novelist. Biography Born in Moscow to the family of Boris Grushin, a prominent Soviet sociologist, Olga Grushin spent most of her childhood in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

(BA 1993) – novelist * Lauren Gunderson (BA 2004) – playwright * Carl Hiaasen (attended for two years, then transferred to the University of Florida) – author *

Edward E. Kramer Edward Eliot Kramer (born March 20, 1961) is an American editor and convicted child molester. Kramer lives in Duluth, Georgia, and was a co-founder and part-owner of the Dragon*Con media convention. Kramer has also edited several works in the gen ...

(MD) – editor and author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and horror works * Ferrol A. Sams Jr. (MD 1949) – humorist and best-selling author of ''Run with the Horsemen'' *

William Y. Thompson William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

(BA 1946) – historian, author of '' Robert Toombs of Georgia'' (1966) * Daniel Wallace (attended as undergraduate, and transferred to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – author of '' Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions'', later made into the Tim Burton film '' Big Fish''

Music

* Peter Buck – lead guitarist, R.E.M. (dropped out) * Kristian Bush (BA 1992) – singer and co-founder of the band

Sugarland Sugarland is an American country music duo founded in Atlanta, Georgia. The duo consists of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles (lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (vocals, guitar, mandolin). They were founded in 2002, at which point Kristen Hall (vo ...

, which won a Grammy Award in 2008 * Scooter Braun (attended as undergrad alum) – music manager of Justin Bieber and

Ariana Grande Ariana Grande-Butera ( ; born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her four-octave vocal range has received critical acclaim, and her personal life has been the subject of widespread media attention. She has received ...

Mac Davis Morris Mac Davis (January 21, 1942 – September 29, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. A native of Lubbock, Texas, he enjoyed success as a crossover artist, and during his early career he wrote for Elvis Presley, ...

(attended) – country musician, songwriter and actor *

Tinsley Ellis Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957) is an American blues and rock musician, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in South Florida. According to ''Billboard'', "nobody has released more consistently excellent blues albums ...

(BA 1979) – blues singer * Keri Hilson (attended) – songwriter and R&B artist *

Amy Ray Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American alto singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemo ...

(BA 1986) – singer, the

Indigo Girls Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part o ...

* Emily Saliers (BA 1985) – singer, the Indigo Girls * Robert Schneider (graduate student) – lead singer, guitarist and producer, The Apples in Stereo

Visual art

Julien Binford Julien Binford (December 25, 1908 – September 12, 1997) was an Americans, American painting, painter. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in France. Settling in Powhatan County, Virginia, he was known for his paintings of the ru ...

– painter *Jane Jackson (Davis) (BA 1979) – photography curator, former art dealer, founding director of The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, editor of ''Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection'' *

Steven Newsome Steven Newsome (1952-2012) was an American arts and museum administrator. Newsome grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He attended Trinity College, Hartford and Emory University. He is the former Chief of the Office of Cultural and Educational Services in ...

– arts administrator

Other

Christopher McCandless Christopher Johnson McCandless (; February 12, 1968 – August 1992), also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of '' Int ...

(BA 1990) – subject of '' Into the Wild'' by Jon Krakauer *

Trip Payne Norman "Trip" Payne''The Crossword Obsession: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime'', by Coral Amende, published 2001 by Berkley Books, p 91, " 'Penny A. Roman', which is an anagram of my real name, 'Norman Payne'" is an Americ ...

(BA 1990) – puzzle constructor and three-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion * Joshua Schwadron – featured in the March 2003 publication of '' GQ'' magazine, which honored him as its national college "Big Man on Campus"

Politics

:''Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.''

Heads of state

Lado Gurgenidze Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze ( ka, ვლადიმერ ��ადოგურგენიძე; born 7 December 1970) is a Georgian career banker, business executive, and the former politician, who was the sixth Prime Minister of Georgia, from ...

(MBA 1993) – 6th Prime Minister of the country of Georgia *

Lee Hong-koo Lee Hong-Koo (born May 9, 1934; Hangul: 이홍구; Hanja: 李洪九) is a former Korean academic, politician, and think tank leader who served as a former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, former South Korean Ambassador to the United Kingd ...

(BA 1959) – 26th Prime Minister of South Korea

U.S. Vice Presidents

Alben W. Barkley Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...

(BA 1900) – 35th United States Vice President

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and other prominent federal government officials

* Robb LaKritz (JD, 1997) – former advisor to the Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary, appointed by

President George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

Jonathan Levy Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media *Jonathan (1970 film), ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer *Jonathan (2016 film), ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by ...

(BA 2004) – clean energy executive, former Congressional staffer and Obama Administration official, including Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz * Jody Powell (PhD) – White House Press Secretary under Jimmy Carter * David Poythress (BA 1964, JD 1967) – former Secretary of State and Commissioner of Labor of the state of Georgia

U.S. Governors and Lieutenant Governors

C. Farris Bryant Cecil Farris Bryant (July 26, 1914 – March 1, 2002) was an American politician serving as the 34th Governor of Florida. He also served on the United States National Security Council as director of the Office of Emergency Planning during t ...

(attended) – 34th Governor of Florida * Bill Haslam (BA 1980) – 49th Governor of Tennessee; heir to the Pilot Flying J fortune; richest Emory alum, worth $2 billion * Crissy Haslam (BBA 1980) – First Lady of Tennessee *

Spessard Holland Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892 – November 6, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 28th Governor of Florida from 1941 to 1945, and later as a US senator for Florida from 1946 to 1971. He would be the first pers ...

(BA 1912) – 28th Governor of Florida and US Senator from Florida *

Claude R. Kirk Jr. Claude Roy Kirk Jr. (January 7, 1926 – September 28, 2011) was the 36th governor of the U.S. state of Florida (1967–1971). He was the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction. Early life Kirk was born in San Bernardino, Ca ...

(BS 1945) – 36th Governor of Florida * Zell Miller (attended) – 79th

Governor of Georgia The governor of Georgia is the head of government of Georgia and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor also has a duty to enforce state laws, the power to either veto or approve bills passed by the Georgia Legisl ...

and Senator from Georgia *

Mark Fletcher Taylor Mark Fletcher Taylor (born May 7, 1957) is an American businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who served two terms between 1999 and 2007 as the 10th lieutenant governor of Georgia. Taylor was the Democratic nominee for gove ...

(BA 1979) – former lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia *

Melvin E. Thompson Melvin Ernest Thompson (May 1, 1903 – October 3, 1980) was an American educator and politician from Millen in the U.S. state of Georgia. Generally known as M.E. Thompson during his political career, he served as the 70th Governor of Georg ...

(BA 1926) – 71st Governor of Georgia

Legislators

=U.S. Senators

= *

Nathan Philemon Bryan Nathan Philemon Bryan (April 23, 1872 – August 8, 1935) was a United States senator from Florida and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Education and career Born on April 23, 1872, in For ...

(BA 1893) – former U.S. Senator from Florida * William James Bryan (BA 1896) – former U.S. Senator from Florida *

Wyche Fowler William Wyche Fowler Jr. (born October 6, 1940) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1987 to 1993. He had previously served in the U.S. House of ...

(JD 1969) – former U.S. Senator from Georgia and ambassador * Carte Goodwin (JD 1999) – politician and attorney who briefly served as junior United States senator from West Virginia * George LeMieux (BA 1991) – U.S. Senator from Florida *

Thomas M. Norwood Thomas Manson Norwood (April 26, 1830June 19, 1913) was a United States senator and Representative from Georgia. Early years and education Born in Talbot County, Georgia, he pursued an academic course, and graduated from Emory College in 1850 ...

(BA 1850) – U.S. Senator and Representative from Georgia * Sam Nunn (BA 1960, LLB 1962) – former U.S. Senator from Georgia *

Tom Stewart Thomas Stewart may refer to: Politicians and nobility * Thomas A. Stewart (politician) (1849–1920), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Thomas E. Stewart (1824–1904), U.S. Representative from New York *Thomas Joseph Stewart (1848–1926), ...

(attended) – former U.S. Senator from Tennessee

=U.S. Representatives

= * Sanford Bishop (JD 1971) – United States Representative from Georgia and a former Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate * John Glen Browder (MA 1971, PhD 1971) – former member of the United States House of Representatives *

Kathy Castor Katherine Anne Castor (born August 20, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer currently representing in the United States House of Representatives, serving since 2007. The district, numbered as the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, is based ...

(BA 1988) – U.S. Congresswoman (D-FL) * Max Cleland (MA) – former United States senator from Georgia * Bill Cobey – former U.S. Representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district; director of the

Jesse Helms Center The Jesse Helms Center, located in Wingate, North Carolina and named for its founder, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, is a repository of Helms' papers, letters, speeches, transcripts of his televised editorials for WRAL-TV, books of faith, and a rep ...

* Tillie K. Fowler (BA 1964, JD 1967) – former United States Representative from Florida *

Newt Gingrich Newton Leroy Gingrich (; né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U ...

(BA 1965) – former

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the U. ...

Elliott Levitas Elliott Harris Levitas (December 26, 1930 – December 16, 2022) was an American politician and lawyer from Georgia. He was a former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 4th congressional district, serving five consecutive terms from 1975 to 1985. ...

(BA 1952, JD 1956) – former U.S. Congressman * James MacKay (LLB 1947) – former U.S. Representative from Georgia * Larry McDonald (MD 1957) – politician, member of the United States House of Representatives; victim of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was shot down by Soviet Union interceptors * Leslie Jasper Steele (BA 1893) – Congressional Representative for Georgia and lawyer *

Fletcher Thompson Standish Fletcher Thompson (February 5, 1925 – September 13, 2022) was an American lawyer, World War II veteran and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congr ...

(BA 1949) – lawyer and Congressional Representative for Georgia * Robert Wexler (attended for undergraduate degree, then transferred to the University of Florida) – Congressman from Florida

=State legislators and city officials

= * Garland T. Byrd (LLB 1948) – former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia *

James V. Carmichael James Vinson Carmichael (October 2, 1910 – November 28, 1972) was member of the Georgia General Assembly, an attorney, business executive, and candidate for Governor of Georgia. Early life Carmichael was born, in Cobb County, Georgia to parent ...

(BA 1932) – member of the

Georgia General Assembly The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directly ...

1935–1940; candidate for governor of Georgia in 1946 *

Jeffrey M. Frederick Jeffrey M. Frederick (born September 23, 1975) is an American politician, CEO, entrepreneur, and craft beer brewery owner. He served three terms as a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Frederick was also chairman of the Republi ...

(BA 1997) – former member of the Virginia House of Delegates and former chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia * James A. Harrell, III (Law) – former Democratic member of the

North Carolina General Assembly The North Carolina General Assembly is the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Government of North Carolina, State government of North Carolina. The legislature consists of two chambers: the North Carolina Senate, Senate and the North Ca ...

Chris Kolb Chris Kolb (born 1958) is a politician from Ann Arbor, Michigan and a former member of the Michigan State House of Representatives. A Democrat, Kolb represented the 53rd district, based in Ann Arbor, from January 2001 to January 2007. He was fi ...

(Law) – politician from Ann Arbor, Michigan; former member of the Michigan State House of Representatives *

Christian J. Miele Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

(JD 2014) – member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr. Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. (born September 28, 1967) is an American politician from Baltimore, Maryland, who once served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate in the 2007 mayoral election. Backg ...

(BA 1990) – former member of the

Baltimore City Council The Baltimore City Council is the legislative branch that governs the City of Baltimore and its more than 600,000 citizens. It has 14 members elected by district and a president elected at-large; all serve four-year terms. The Council holds reg ...

, member of the Maryland House of Delegates * Joe Negron (JD 1986) – replacement Republican candidate for the Mark Foley Congressional seat in Florida in 2006 *

Jeff Waldstreicher Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 18 in Montgomery County after serving two term ...

(BA) – politician from Maryland, member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

G. L. P. Wren G is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet. G may also refer to: Places * Gabon, international license plate code G * Glasgow, UK postal code G * Eastern Quebec, Canadian postal prefix G * Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, ...

(Law) – 19th-century member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature for Webster Parish * Peter J. Zuckerman – councilman,

town of North Hempstead North Hempstead is one of three towns in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 237,639 at the 2020 census. History The area was first settled by Europeans around 1643 and became part of the town of Hem ...

, New York

Mayors

Teresa Tomlinson Teresa Pike Tomlinson (born February 19, 1965) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected and served as the 69th Mayor of Columbus, Georgia in 2010. On January 3, 2011, she was sworn in as the city' ...

(JD 1991) – mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2011–2019)

Diplomats

David I. Adelman David Isaac Adelman (born May 24, 1964) is an American lawyer, businessman and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is Managing Director and General Counsel of asset ...

(JD 1989) – United States Ambassador to Singapore *

Gordon Giffin Gordon Davies Giffin (born December 29, 1949) became the 34th United States Ambassador to Canada on September 17, 1997. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gordon Giffin moved to Canada before his first birthday. He lived in Montreal and Toro ...

(JD 1974) – 34th Ambassador of the United States to Canada *

John Hubert Kelly John Hubert Kelly (July 20, 1939 – September 15, 2011) was a United States diplomat. Biography John Hubert Kelly was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on July 20, 1939. He attended Emory University, receiving a B.A. in 1961. He spent 1962 throu ...

(BA 1961) – United States diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Finland *

Larry Leon Palmer Larry Leon Palmer (July 13, 1949 – April 21, 2021) was an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2012 to 2015.. He was the United States Ambassador to Honduras from 2002 to ...

(BA 1970) – United States diplomat, former

United States Ambassador to Honduras The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Honduras. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently ''Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.'' See also * Hon ...

Military

Francis L. Garrett Francis Leonard Garrett (1919-1992) was a Rear Admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy. Biography Garrett was born on April 7, 1919. He attended Wofford College, Emory University and Union Theological Seminary. Garrett died on ...

– Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Navy * Kevin M. McCoy (MBA 1994) – 42nd commander of

Naval Sea Systems Command The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel (not to be confused with "material") organizations. From a physical perspective, NAVSEA has four shipyards for shipbuilding, c ...

John N. McLaughlin John Nicholas McLaughlin (September 21, 1918 – August 8, 2002) was a highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. During his 33 years of active service, McLaughlin was a participant of wars in ...

(BA 1941) – Marine Corps Lieutenant General, served in three wars and spent three years as a

P.O.W. A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...

Edward L. Thomas Edward Lloyd Thomas (March 23, 1825 – March 8, 1898) was a Confederate States Army, Confederate Brigadier General (CSA), brigadier general of infantry during the American Civil War from the state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. He was colonel ...

–

Confederate Confederacy or confederate may refer to: States or communities * Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities * Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between ...

general during the American Civil War

Judges

=U.S. Supreme Court Justices

= * Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II) (BA 1845) – former United States Supreme Court Justice and

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

from Mississippi

=Federal and state judges

= * Rowland Barnes (BA 1972, faculty member at Emory) – former Atlanta Superior Court Judge *

Stanley F. Birch Jr. Stanley Francis Birch Jr. (born August 29, 1945) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Education and career Birch was born in Langley Field, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of ...

(JD 1970, LLM 1976) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit *

Elizabeth L. Branch Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch (born March 30, 1968) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Early life and education Branch was born ...

(JD 1994) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit *

Ada E. Brown Ada Elene Brown (born November 8, 1974) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of A ...

(JD 1999) – federal judge on the

United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (in case citations, N.D. Tex.) is a United States district court. Its first judge, Andrew Phelps McCormick, was appointed to the court on April 10, 1879. The court convenes in D ...

Mark Howard Cohen Mark Howard Cohen (born June 11, 1955) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Biography Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1976 from Emory Universit ...

(BA 1976, JD 1979) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia * Clarence Cooper (JD 1967) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia *

James Larry Edmondson James Larry Edmondson (born July 14, 1947) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Education and early career Born in Jasper, Georgia, Edmondson received a Bachelor of Arts degree ...

(BA 1968) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit *

J. Robert Elliott James Robert Elliott (January 1, 1910 – June 27, 2006) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Education and career Born in Gainesville, Georgia ...

(BA 1930, JD 1934) – former politician, federal judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia *

Orinda Dale Evans Orinda Dale Evans (born April 23, 1943) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Early life and education Born in Savannah, Georgia, Evans received an Artium ...

(JD 1968) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia *

Steven D. Grimberg Steven Daniel Grimberg (born March 11, 1974) is a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Education Grimberg earned his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, ...

(JD 1974) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia * Catharina Haynes (JD 1986) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit *

Frank M. Hull Frank Mays Hull (born December 9, 1948) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Education Hull graduated from the Academy of Richmond County in 1966, and received her Bachelor of ...

(JD 1973) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit *

Willis Hunt Willis Beverly Hunt Jr. (born December 10, 1932) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Education and career Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Hunt graduated fro ...

(LLB 1954) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia * Hugh Lawson (BA 1963, JD 1964) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia * Julien Xavier Neals (JD 1991) – federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey *

Leah Ward Sears Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. When she was first ap ...

(JD 1980) – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; first African-American Chief Justice in the United States *

Thomas B. Wells Thomas Buell Wells (born July 2, 1945) is an American lawyer who served as a judge of the United States Tax Court. Wells was born in Akron, Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Science from Miami University of Ohio in 1967. He was a Supply Corps Off ...

(JD 1973) – judge of the United States Tax Court

Attorneys

* John M. Dowd (JD 1965) – trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax and Criminal Divisions; Emory Law School Distinguished Alumni award recipient in 2008 * Jimmy Faircloth (Master's in Litigation, 1991) – lawyer in Alexandria- Pineville, Louisiana, former executive counsel to Governor

Bobby Jindal Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016. The only living former Louisiana governor, Jindal also served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives a ...

* E. Duncan Getchell (BA 1971) – lawyer, former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit * Thomas Hardeman, Jr. (BA 1945) – politician, lawyer and soldier *

Ken Hodges Kenneth (Ken) B. Hodges III (born September 22, 1965) is a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the former Dougherty County District Attorney and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Georgia in 2010. In 2015, Hodges started h ...

(BA 1988) – former district attorney for Dougherty County, Georgia *

John James Jones John James Jones (November 13, 1824 – October 19, 1898) was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Georgia who served in the United States Congress. The John James Jones House is listed on the National Register of Historic P ...

(BA 1945) – politician and lawyer *

Randolph W. Thrower Randolph William Thrower (September 5, 1913 – March 8, 2014) was an American attorney. He served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1971. Early life and education Thrower was born in Tampa, Flori ...

(BA 1934, JD 1936) – partner at

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, rebranded to the abbreviated name of Sutherland, was an AmLaw 100 American law firm. Founded in 1924 by William Sutherland and Elbert Tuttle as Sutherland & Tuttle, the firm originally achieved national promine ...

LLP, namesake of the Randolph W. Thrower Symposium at Emory University School of Law *

Fani Willis Fani Taifa Willis (, born October 27, 1971) is an American attorney from the state of Georgia. She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta. She is the first woman to hold the office of Fulton County dis ...

(JD 1996) – first female District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia

Activists

Larry Klayman Larry Elliot Klayman (born July 20, 1951) is an American attorney, right-wing activist, and former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor. He founded both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. In addition to his numerous lawsuits against the Clinton adm ...

(JD 1977) – founder of

Judicial Watch Judicial Watch (JW) is an American conservative activist group that files Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials. Founded in 1994, JW has primarily targeted Democrats, in particula ...

Ralph E. Reed, Jr. Ralph Eugene Reed Jr. (born June 24, 1961) is an American political consultant and lobbyist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition during the early 1990s. He sought the Republican nomination for the office of L ...

(PhD) – conservative political activist * Yun Chi-ho (BA) – politician, educator; independence activist in Korea in the early 20th century

Religion

Bishops

Frank Kellogg Allan Frank Kellogg Allan (May 9, 1935 - May 24, 2019) was the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1989 till 2000. Background Allan was born in Hammond, Indiana. He graduated from Emory University in 1956, and in 1959 he received his ...

(BA 1956) – eighth Bishop of the

Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, with jurisdiction over middle and north Georgia. It is in Province IV of the Episcopal Church and its cathedral, the Cathedral of St. Phi ...

Arthur James Armstrong (Arthur) James Armstrong (September 17, 1924 – July 17, 2018) was a bishop of the United Methodist Church. Elected in 1968, he became the youngest Methodist bishop in the United States at the age of 43. As president of the National Council of Ch ...

(BA ) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Sante Uberto Barbieri Sante Uberto Barbieri was a bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1949. A native of Italy, he was elected Bishop by the Latin American Central Conference of the Church. He was assigned the work of the Church in Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay ...

(MA ) – Bishop of the Methodist Church in Latin America *

Robert McGrady Blackburn Robert McGrady Blackburn (12 September 1919 – 17 March 2002) was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972. Birth and family Robert was born in Bartow, Florida, the son of the Rev. C. Fred and Effie Frances (Forsythe) ...

( BD 1943) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church * John Warren Branscomb – Bishop of the Methodist Church * Warren Akin Candler (BA 1877) – Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tenth President of Emory University * James Edward Dickey (BA 1891) – Bishop of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South The Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC, S; also Methodist Episcopal Church South) was the American Methodist denomination resulting from the 19th-century split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement ...

James L. Duncan James Loughlin Duncan (September 11, 1913 – July 20, 2000), the first Bishop of Southeast Florida, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Scottish and Irish immigrants Robert Duncan and his wife, Mary (O'Loughlin) Duncan. He died in ...

(BA 1935)) – Bishop of the Episcopal Church *

Larry M. Goodpaster Larry Martin Goodpaster (born April 23, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2000. Birth and family Goodpaster was born April 23, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. He married Deborah Cox on September 26, 19 ...

(

M.Div. For graduate-level theological institutions, the Master of Divinity (MDiv, ''magister divinitatis'' in Latin) is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America. It is the most common academic degree in seminaries and di ...

1973,

D.Min. The Doctor of Ministry (abbreviated DMin or D.Min.) is a professional doctorate, often including a research component, that may be earned by a minister of religion while concurrently engaged in some form of ministry. It is categorized as an advanced ...

1982) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Paul Hardin, Jr. Paul Hardin Jr. (November 7, 1903 – June 22, 1996) was a bishop in The Methodist Church in the U.S., elected in 1960. He was Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1963 when he joined seven other white ...

(M.Div. 1927) – Bishop in the Methodist Church * Nolan Bailey Harmon – Bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church * Janice Riggle Huie (D.Div 1989) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr. Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr. (1918–2005) was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor and evangelist, as the president of Emory and Henry College, as an author and theologian, as a bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Meth ...

(BD, M.Div. 1946) – President of Emory and Henry College, author and theologian, Bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church *

Lewis Bevel Jones III Lewis Bevel Jones III (1926 – March 6, 2018) was a bishop of the United Methodist Church and Bishop in Residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Born in Gracewood, Georgia, Jones graduated from Emory University in 1946 and re ...

(BA 1946, M.Div. 1949) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church * Clay Foster Lee, Jr. (Bachelor of Divinity 1953) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church * Richard Carl Looney – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Arthur James Moore Arthur James Moore (December 26, 1888 – June 30, 1974) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), the Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1930. Birth and family Arthur was born December ...

(attended as undergraduate 1909–1911) – Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), the Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church * Carl Julian Sanders (BD 1936) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Roy Hunter Short Roy Hunter Short (19 October 1902 – 2 July 1994) was an American bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1948. Birth and family Roy was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Jesse Peters and Minnie L. (Bad ...

– Bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church *

William Turner Watkins William Turner Watkins was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) and of The Methodist Church, elected in 1938. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, as a university professor, and as an editor. Birth a ...

(Ph.B. 1926) – Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) and the Methodist Church *

Timothy W. Whitaker Timothy Wayne Whitaker is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2001. Whitaker distinguished himself as a U.M. pastor, a college lecturer, a member of Annual Conference and U.M. General Agencies and community organizations, a distr ...

(M.Div. 1973) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

Richard J. Wills, Jr. Richard J. Wills Jr (born 3 August 1942) is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2004. Birth and family He married Eileen (Willis) Wills on 12 June 1965. They have four children: Richard J. Wills III of Lakeland, Florida; Suzanne Wi ...

(M.Div. 1967) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church *

John K. Yambasu John K. Yambasu (24 August 1956 - 16 August 2020) was a Sierra Leonean Bishop of the United Methodist Church. He was elected Bishop in 2008 and became one of Sierra Leone's "most illustrious religious personalities." In 2019 he was instrumental i ...

(M.Theo.) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church for Sierra Leone

Ministers and theologians

Young John Allen Young John Allen (January 3, 1836 – May 30, 1907) or Young J. Allen, was an American Methodist missionary in late Qing dynasty China with the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission. He is best known in China by his local name Lin Lezhi ( ...

(BA 1858) – American Methodist missionary in late Qing Dynasty China * Richard E. Blanchard, Sr. (BD 1949) – gospel songwriter * Lewis C. Branscomb – Methodist minister *

John B. Cobb John Boswell Cobb, Jr. (born 9 February 1925) is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, the school of thought associ ...

–

process theologian Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000), John B. Cobb (b. 1925) and Eugene H. Peters (1929-1983). Process theology and ...

James A. Dombrowski James Anderson Dombrowski (January 17, 1897 – May 2, 1983) was an American civil rights activist and Methodist minister. He founded the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, led the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, and was director of th ...

(BA 1923) – southern white Methodist minister, active in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s *

D. L. Dykes, Jr. D. or d. may refer to, usually as an abbreviation: * Don (honorific), a form of address in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and their former overseas empires, usually given to nobles or other individuals of high social rank. * Date of death, as an abbreviati ...

(1917–1997) (BA 1942) – pastor of First United Methodist Church in

Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is t ...

, 1955–1984; urged racial moderation during the civil rights movement *

William P. Harrison William Pope Harrison (September 3, 1830 – February 7, 1895) was an American Methodist minister and theologian, and was the 48th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. He was an author of books on Methodist theology, most notab ...

– minister and theologian,

Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives The chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is the officer of the United States House of Representatives responsible for beginning each day's proceedings with a prayer. The House cites the first half of Article 1, Section 2, Claus ...

Bernice King Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is an American lawyer, minister, and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was five years old when her father was assassinated. In her adolesc ...

(M.Div. and J.D.1990) – daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King *

Eugene Marion Klaaren Eugene Marion Klaaren (1937-October 17, 2015) was a historian and professor of religion. He held a BA from Hope College, an MA from Emory University, a BD from Western Theological Seminary, and a PHD from Harvard University. He then became an Emer ...

(MA) – historian and professor of religion *

Steven Jack Land Steven Jack Land (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian renewal theologian within the Pentecostal movement who began serving as the president of the Church of God Theological Seminary, now Pentecostal Theological Seminary, in 2002. He is the firs ...

(M.Div. 1973, PhD 1991) –

renewal theologian {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Renewal theologians are those theologians who represent the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Neocharismatic movements. Notable Renewal theologians are noted under the grouping with which they are m ...

within the Pentecostal movement *

Doug Moseley Douglas Dewayne Moseley, known as Doug Moseley (March 24, 1928November 8, 2017), was a Kentucky minister and politician who served in the Kentucky Senate The Kentucky Senate is the upper house of the Kentucky General Assembly. The Kentucky S ...

(M.Div. 1957) – retired United Methodist minister and author who served as a Republican member of the

Kentucky State Senate The Kentucky Senate is the upper house of the Kentucky General Assembly. The Kentucky Senate is composed of 38 members elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. There are no term limits for Kentucky Senators. The Kentuc ...

Kiyoshi Tanimoto was a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens. He was one of the six Hiroshima survivors whose experiences of the bomb and later life are portrayed in John Hersey's book '' Hiroshima''. The 1985 edition contains an up ...

(1940) Japanese-born Methodist preacher, survivor of

Hiroshima bombing The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the on ...

Donald Wildmon Donald Ellis Wildmon (born January 18, 1938) is an ordained United Methodist minister, author, former radio host, and founder and chairman emeritus of the American Family Association and American Family Radio. Life and career Wildmon was born in t ...

(M.Div. 1965) – ordained United Methodist minister, author, former radio host, and founder and chairman emeritus of the

American Family Association The American Family Association (AFA) is a Christian fundamentalist 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States.

and

American Family Radio American Family Radio (AFR) is a network of more than 180 radio stations broadcasting Christian Conservative Christianity, Christian-oriented programming to over 30 states.Heidi Blanck Captain (United States), Captain Heidi Michels Blanck is an American public health epidemiologist, nutrition and obesity researcher, and officer of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, US Public Health Service Commissioned Co ...

(PhD) – epidemiologist and chief at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *

Mark Elliott Brecher Mark Elliot Brecher is a physician specializing in pathology, in particular blood transfusion. Biography In 1982, Brecher earned a MD at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; he also had his residency training in anatomic and cli ...

(BA) - Retired Chief Medical Officer LabCorp, Emeritus Professor University of North Carolina *

Lisa Cooper Lisa A. Cooper (born 1963) is an American internal medicine and public health physician who is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Equity in Health and Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University, jointly appointed in the Johns Hopkins School of ...

(BA) – public health physician, professor at Johns Hopkins University, recipient of the

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

fellowship *

Robert DuPont Robert L. DuPont (born March 25, 1936 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American psychiatrist, known for his advocacy in the field of substance abuse. He is president of the Institute for Behavior and Health, whose mission is "to reduce the use of illegal d ...

(BA 1958) – national leader in drug abuse prevention, policy and treatment *

H. Winter Griffith Dr. H. Winter Griffith (1926–1993) was an American physician who authored 27 popular medical books. His books include ''The Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness, and Surgery'' and ''Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs''. Mul ...

(MD 1953) – physician who authored 27 popular medical books *

TImothy Harlan Timothy S. Harlan, MD, FACP, is an American internist, professor, chef and author. He currently is Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, where he also is Executive Director of the Culinary Medicine Program. ...

(BA 1987, MD 1991) – physician, chef and author * John R. Heller Jr. – director of National Cancer Institute 1948–1960 *

Hamilton E. Holmes Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first Afri ...

(MD 1967) – orthopedic physician *

Chonnettia Jones Chonnettia Jones is an American geneticist and developmental biologist. She has served as the executive director of Addgene since 2022. Jones was previously the vice president of research at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and the ...

– geneticist and developmental biologist; director of insight and analysis at Wellcome Trust *William N. Kelley (BA, MD) – CEO of University of Pennsylvania Health System, Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, co-discoverer of

Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome Lesch–Nyhan syndrome (LNS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT). This deficiency occurs due to mutations in the ''HPRT1'' gene located on the X chromosome. LNS ...

* Michael J. Kuhar – Candler Professor of Neuropharmacology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory *

Alisha Kramer Thomas Jonathan Ossoff ( ; born February 16, 1987) is an American politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia since 2021. A member of the ...

(MD 2018) – physician and health activist * David Malebranche (MD 1996) – Haitian-American physician working in the field of HIV/AIDS; assistant professor of medicine at Emory University *

Arnold J. Mandell Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist. Born in 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1954 and his M.D. from Tulane University in 1958. Founding chairman in 1969 of the Department of ...

– neuroscientist and psychiatrist, founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego *

J. Michael Millis James Michael Millis is an American academic and surgeon specializing in pediatric and adult liver transplantation. He is Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Global Surgery at University of Chicago. He is also the director of Clinical Leadersh ...

(BA 1981) – academic and surgeon * Arnall Patz (BA 1943, MD 1945) – ophthalmology researcher and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who discovered that

oxygen therapy Oxygen therapy, also known as supplemental oxygen, is the use of oxygen as medical treatment. Acute indications for therapy include hypoxemia (low blood oxygen levels), carbon monoxide toxicity and cluster headache. It may also be prophylactica ...

causes blindness in infants * Thomas M. Rivers (BA 1909?) – virologist, headed the National Science Foundation's search for a polio vaccine *

Charles H. Roadman II Charles H. Roadman II (born November 27, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas) was the 16th United States Air Force Surgeon General (1996–1999), Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington D.C. His father, Charles H. Roadman (1914–2 ...

(MD 1973) – 16th United States Air Force Surgeon General *

William C. Roberts William Clifford Roberts (September 11, 1932 – June 15, 2023) was an American physician specializing in cardiac pathology. He was a Master of the American College of Cardiology, a leading cardiovascular pathologist, and the former editor of ...

(MD 1958) – cardiologist and pathologist, first head of pathology for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; executive director of the Baylor Cardiovascular Institute of Baylor University Medical Center *

Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell (also called Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi; February 9, 1911 – March 12, 1967) was an endocrinologist. She researched pituitary extract. Education Russell graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, California, in 1928 ...

– endocrinologist, biochemistry professor *

Aalisha Sahukhan Aalisha Sahukhan (''or Sahu Khan'') is head of Health Protection at the Ministry of Health and Medical Services in Fiji. She has been prominent in the country's battle against COVID-19 and an earlier measles epidemic. She was nominated as one of ...

(MPH) – communicable disease expert, and head of Health Protection at the Ministry of Health and Medical Services in

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. * David Sherer – physician, author and inventor *

Eugene A. Stead Eugene Anson Stead Jr. (October 6, 1908 in Atlanta, Georgia – June 12, 2005) is best known as a physician, medical educator, and researcher. He served on the faculties at Harvard, Emory (where he received a Bachelor of Science and MD degree), ...

(BS 1928, MD 1932) – medical educator, researcher, and the founder of the

physician assistant A physician assistant or physician associate (PA) is a type of Mid-level practitioner, mid-level health care provider. In North America PAs may diagnose illnesses, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medications, and may serve as a pri ...

profession *

Edwin Trevathan Edwin Trevathan, an American child neurologist, pediatrician, epidemiologist, is the Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medic ...

(MD 1982, MPH 1982) – pediatrician and pediatric neurologist; dean of the School of Public Health at

St. Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...

, former director of the Center for Disease Control's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities * W. Dean Warren – former chairman of the Department of Surgery and president of the American College of Surgeons

Technology

David A. Bray The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...

(BS, MS, PhD) – IT chief for the Bioterrorism Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000–2005), senior executive with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, chief information officer with the Federal Communications Commission * Sonny Carter (BS 1969, MD 1973) – astronaut, physician, and professional

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player with the

Atlanta Chiefs The Atlanta Chiefs were an American professional soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The team competed in the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) in 1967 and the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1968 to 1973 and again from 19 ...

* Robert Simpson (MA 1935) – meteorologist and co-developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

Sports

* Warrick Dunn (MBA 2013) – Pro Bowl NFL running back for the

Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...

and Tampa Bay Buccaneers * Bobby Jones (attended law school 1926–1927) – professional golfer, founder of the

Masters Tournament The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, the Masters is the first maj ...

, namesake of The Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship Program at Emory University *

Alec Kessler Alec Christopher Kessler (January 13, 1967 – October 13, 2007) was an American college basketball player for the University of Georgia and later, as a professional, for the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in the Ital ...

(MD 1999) – basketball player for the University of Georgia and the Miami Heat, orthopedic surgeon * Diana Nyad (did not graduate) – world record long-distance swimmer and ranked squash player *

Parson Perryman Emmett Key "Parson" Perryman (October 24, 1888 – September 12, 1966) was a professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher for one season (1915) with the St. Louis Browns, during which he compiled a 2-4 record, with a 3.93 earned ru ...

– professional baseball player *

(Business School) – chess player * Bob Varsha (Law 1977) – automotive racing broadcaster *

Wendy Weinberg Wendy Weinberg (now Wendy Weinberg Weil; born June 27, 1958) is an American former competition swimmer who was an Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Maccabiah Games medalist. Swimming career At the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel, she won a ...

– Olympic medalist swimmer *

Andrew Wilson (swimmer) Andrew Wilson (born September 16, 1993) is a retired American swimmer. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he placed 6th in the 100 meter breaststroke, 17th in the 200 meter breaststroke, and won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, for h ...

(2017) - 2020 Olympic gold medalist swimmer

Honorary degrees

* Tom Brokaw (2005H) – author of '' The Greatest Generation'' (1998),

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

(1989) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014) * Kim Dae-Jung (1983H) – 8th president of the Republic of Korea *

Vicente Fox Quesada Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the ...

(2009H) – 55th president of Mexico *

Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' ...

(2010H) –

Austrian American Austrian Americans (, ) are Americans of Austrian descent, chiefly German-speaking Catholics and Jews. According to the 2000 U.S. census, there were 735,128 Americans of full or partial Austrian descent, accounting for 0.3% of the population. The ...

actor and philanthropist; 38th Governor of California 2003–2011

Faculty

African American studies

Carol Anderson Carol Anderson (born June 17, 1959) is an American academic. She is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on public policy with regard to race, justice, and equality. Educatio ...

– author of '' White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide'' *

Nathan McCall Nathan McCall (born 1955) is an American author and journalist. He has written in the genres of novel, memoir, biography, and social commentary, often focusing on the African-American experience. Biography As the stepson of a Navy man, McCall ...

– journalist and ''New York Times'' bestselling author

Business

Benn Konsynski Benn Konsynski has been the George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University since 1994. Previously, he spent six years on the faculty at the ...

– George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis at the Goizueta Business School * Paul Rubin – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law * Jagdish Sheth – Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School

History

* Michael Bellesiles – controversial author of '' Arming America'' *

Dan T. Carter Dan T. Carter is an American historian. Life Carter graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at the University of Maryland, and the Un ...

– historian of the modern South * Elizabeth Fox-Genovese – feminist historian and a primary voice of the conservative women's movement * Eugene Genovese – historian of the American South and American slavery * Jeffrey Lesser – historian of Latin America, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and chair of the History Department *

Gyanendra Pandey Gyanendra Kedarnath Pandey (born 12 August 1972) is a former Indian cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each compr ...

– a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project * Mark Ravina – scholar of early modern (Tokugawa) Japanese history *

Kenneth Stein Kenneth W. Stein is a professor known for studying the Arab–Israeli conflict, in both historical and social-economic context. He spent many years working with the Carter Center from the 1980s, before cutting ties in 2006; and decades teaching at ...

– William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies

Journalism

Hank Klibanoff Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949 in Florence, Alabama) is an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University. He and Gene Roberts won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for the book '' The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Str ...

– former Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', current journalism professor

Law

Harold J. Berman Harold J. Berman (February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) was an American legal scholar who was an expert in comparative, international and Soviet/Russian law as well as legal history, philosophy of law and the intersection of law and religion. ...

(law professor 1985–retirement) – founder of the American Law Center in Moscow, co-founder of the World Law Institute *

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(born 1964) – law professor *

Kathleen Neal Cleaver Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born May 13, 1945) is an American law professor and activist, known for her involvement with the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Party, a political and revolutionary. Early life Juette Kathleen Neal was bor ...

– activist and senior lecturer *

Bruce Frohnen Bruce P. Frohnen is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law, where he teaches courses in Public and Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and Legal Profession. Early life He holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where ...

– Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law

Literature

Geoffrey Bennington Geoffrey Bennington (born 1956) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Georgia, United States, and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerlan ...

– literary critic and philosopher, expert on

deconstruction The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. It was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who defined it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences w ...

Cathy Caruth Cathy Caruth (born 1955) succeeded Jonathan Culler as Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the departments of Literatures in English and Comparative Literature. After graduating ''cum laude'' ...

– literary critic and founder of trauma studies * Richard Ellmann – Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar *

Michael A. Elliott Michael A. Elliott is an American scholar of English literature and academic administrator. He became 20th president of Amherst College on August 1, 2022. Education and career Elliott received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1992 and Ph.D. ...

– Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, 20th President of

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

* Mikhail Epstein – S.C. Dobbs Professor of cultural theory and Russian literature * Shoshana Felman – literary critic, commentator on psychoanalysis, and founder of trauma theory *

Ha Jin Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life Ha Jin was born in L ...

– Chinese-American writer, former Professor of English at Emory; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist * James H. Morey – Professor of English, expert in Middle English * Salman Rushdie – author and literary scholar *

Avi Sharon Avi Sharon is a professor of Classics, translator and consultant. Life He graduated from Emory University, and Boston University, with a Ph.D. in Classics, where he studied under Donald Carne-Ross and William Arrowsmith. His work has appeared i ...

– professor of classics, translator, consultant * Stephen Spender – artist in residence, mid-1980s *

Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U ...

– Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, United States Poet Laureate 2012 and Robert W. Woodruff professor of English and Creative Writing

Philosophy

Thomas R. Flynn Thomas Robert Flynn (born June 2, 1936) is an American philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2011). Flynn was ordained in 196 ...

– Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy * Jean-François Lyotard – late Robert Woodruff Professor and prominent French philosopher

Political science

Alan Abramowitz Alan Ira Abramowitz (born December 1, 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections in the United States, and political parties in the United States. Early life Abramowitz ...

– Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science * Gregory Berns – neuroeconomist and writer * Courtney Brown – Associate Professor of political science and remote viewing practitioner * Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor since 1982 *

Marion V. Creekmore Jr. Marion Virgil Creekmore Jr. (born January 8, 1939) is the distinguished visiting professor of history and political science at Emory University. He also served in the US Foreign Service and then as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the ...

– former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Republic of Maldives *

Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

– fourteenth and current Dalai Lama; named presidential professor of Emory University * Harvey Klehr – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History * Tom Price (former professor) – member of United States House of Representatives *

Dan Reiter Dan Reiter (born 29 September 1967, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American political scientist. He is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Political Science at Emory University. Education Reiter received his B.A. with hon ...

– professor of political science

Medicine

* Robert Wayne Alexander – chair of the medical school, 1999 *

Renato D. Alarcón Renato D. Alarcón is an emeritus professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and works at Cayetano Heredia University. He was born in Arequipa, Peru and would go on to graduate from Cayetano Heredia University as a surgeon i ...

, Head of the department of Psychiatry *

Daniel Brat Daniel Jay Brat is an American neuropathologist and brain tumor investigator. He is the Magerstadt Professor and Chair of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. Education Brat earned ...

– neuropathologist and academic, Emory professor 1999-2017, currently Magerstadt Professor of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine * Doug Bremner – Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, School of Medicine, author * Sanjay Gupta – Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory; CNN medical correspondent *

Thomas R. Insel Thomas Roland Insel (born October 19, 1951) is an American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the ...

– neuroscientist; director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory 1994–1999; left to become director of the National Institute of Mental Health *

Melvin Konner __NOTOC__ Melvin Joel Konner (born 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where ...

– Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology *

Han Qide Han Qide (; born July 1945) is a Chinese physician and politician. Han is currently the chairman of the Jiusan Society and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Cong ...

(韩启德) – Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress of China; previously with Emory School of medicine 1985–1987 and Woodruff Medal Winner in 2006 *

Barbara Rothbaum Barbara Rothbaum is a psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department and a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. Rothbaum is head of the Trauma and Anxie ...

– psychologist and head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory *

Neil B. Shulman Neil Barnett Shulman (March 18, 1945 – November 6, 2023) was an American doctor and medical writer, who was an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Emory University. He conducted and published clinical research on hypertension and wa ...

– Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, author, children's book writer, website and movie developer *

Eric Sorscher Eric Sorscher is an American medical researcher whose primary focus is cystic fibrosis. Some of his research interests include understanding the function of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and its associated gene, as we ...

– professor, Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research

Music

* Eric Nelson – Director of Choral Studies; conductor of Emory's 40-voice Concert Choir and its 180-voice University Chorus; 2004 recipient of "Crystal Apple" award for excellence in teaching at Emory

Science and technology

Fereydoon Family Fereydoon Family (born September 18, 1945) is a leading Persian physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics. He is currently Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics and a member of the Emerson Center for Scientific Computati ...

– Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics, Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

Dennis C. Liotta Dennis Liotta is a chemistry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is noted for his work on the development of antiviral drugs. Career Liotta's fields of research are organic synthesis and medicinal chemist ...

– Professor of Chemistry and co-inventor of the AIDS drug emtricitabine *

Keiji Morokuma Keiji (けいじ, ケイジ) is a Japanese given name usually used for males. Meaning varies depending on the kanji characters used. Possible writings Common kanji used include: * 啓司 * 啓治 * 圭二 * 圭司 * 慶次 * 慶治 * 敬二 * ...

– William Henry Emerson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry; Director of the Emerson Center *

Ilya Nemenman Ilya Mark Nemenman (born January 8, 1975 in Minsk, Belarus) is a theoretical physicist at Emory University, where he is a Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and Biology. He is known for his studies of information processing in biolo ...

– Winship Distinguished Research Professor of theoretical physics and biology, Fellow of the American Physical Society *

Marion Sewer Marion Sewer (1972-2016) was a pharmacologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences known for her research on steroid hormone biogenesis and her commitment to increasing ...

– pharmacologist known for her work on lipid metabolism and efforts to support underrepresented minorities in science, served as deputy chair of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Minority Affairs Committee

Sociology

Robert Agnew Robert Agnew (June 4, 1899 – November 8, 1983) was an American movie actor who worked mostly in the silent film era, making 65 films in both the silent and sound eras. He was born in Dayton, Kentucky. A review of ''The Heart of Broadway'' i ...

– Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology; developer of

General Strain Theory General strain theory (GST) is a theory of criminology developed by Robert Agnew. General strain theory has gained a significant amount of academic attention since being developed in 1992. Robert Agnew's general strain theory is considered to be a ...

Sam Cherribi Dr. Oussama (Sam) Cherribi is a Moroccan-Dutch sociologist, former politician for The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) party, and current professor at Emory University. He was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 19 ...

–

Moroccan-Dutch Moroccans in the Netherlands (, , also known as Dutch-Moroccans or Moroccan-Dutch) are immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants. Migration history Moroccans were not much represented in the first major postwar wave of mi ...

politician and senior lecturer in sociology at Emory * Frans de Waal – Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Religion

Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer (May 28, 1927 – November 28, 2018) was an American university professor, religious scholar, and theologian, noted for his incorporation of Death of God theology and Hegelian dialectical philosophy into his body o ...

(professor 1956–1968) – liberal theologian who postulated in the early 1960s the "death of God" * Merle Black – Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Politics and Government *

James W. Fowler James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics un ...

– Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development * Deborah Lipstadt – Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies; author of ''Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory'' (1994) * Don Saliers – William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship * Andrew Sledd – first president of the University of Florida (1905–1909), president of

Southern University Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is the largest historically black college or university (HBCU) in Louisiana, a ...

(1910–1914), first professor of New Testament literature at Candler School of Theology (1914–1939) *

Devin J. Stewart Devin J. Stewart is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic language and literature. His research interests include Islamic law, the Qur'an, Islamic schools and branches and varieties of Arabic.Islamic studies and Middle Eastern studies

Presidents of Emory

# Ignatius Alphonso Few, 1836–1839 #

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (September 22, 1790 – July 9, 1870) was an American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist, known for his book ''Georgia Scenes''. He was the uncle of the senior Confederate General James Longstreet. He held p ...

, 1840–1848 #

George Foster Pierce George Foster Pierce (1811–1884) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South who served as the first president of Wesleyan College (then known as Georgia Female College) and was also president of Emory University (then known ...

, 1848 -1854 #Alexander Means, 1854–1855 #James R. Thomas, 1855–1867 #Luther M. Smith (1848C), 1867–1871 #Osborn L. Smith (1842C), 1871–1875 #

Atticus Green Haygood Atticus Greene Haygood (1839–1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He edited the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, served as president of Emory College, and wrote several publications. Biography Atticus Green ...

(1859C), 1875–1884 #

(1859C), 1884–1888 # Warren Akin Candler (1875C), 1888–1898 #Charles E. Dowman (1873C), 1898–1902 # James Edward Dickey (1891C), 1902–1915 #Harvey Warren Cox, 1920–1942 #Goodrich C. White (1908C), 1942–1957 #S. Walter Martin, 1957–1962 # Sanford S. Atwood, 1963–1977 #

James T. Laney James T. Laney (born December 24, 1927) is an American minister, professor, and former diplomat. He served as dean of the Candler School of Theology, president of Emory University, and United States Ambassador to South Korea. Early life and educa ...

, 1977–1993 #Billy E. Frye (1954G, 1956 Ph.D.), 1993–1994 #

William Chace William Chace (born 1938) is a Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He specializes in the work of James Joyce in addition to the work of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Elio ...

, 1994–2003 #

James W. Wagner James W. Wagner (born 1953) served as the 19th President of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 2003 to 2016.

, 2003–2016 #

Claire E. Sterk Claire Elizabeth Sterk is a Dutch scientist and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health at Emory University. Sterk held faculty positions in anthropology, sociology, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory. From 2016 to 202 ...

, 2016–2020 #

Gregory L. Fenves Gregory Louis Fenves (born March 1, 1957) is a structural engineer, professor and college administrator who is the twenty-first president of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Fenves was elected a member of the National Academy of Enginee ...

, 2020–present

References

*"Emory University," ''New Georgia Encyclopedia''. Retrieved July 1, 2006: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. *Gleason, Jan. "Emory ranked 9th-best national university by U.S. News & World Report magazine" in ''Emory Report'' (Atlanta: Emory Report, 1997), Volume 50 No. 1. *Hauk, Gary S. ''A Legacy of Heart and Mind : Emory since 1836'' (Atlanta: Emory University, developed and produced by Bookhouse Group, Inc., 1999). *Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University," in ''Emory College Catalog 2003–2005'' (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9–15.

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