This page is a partial list of notable alumni and faculty of the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

Rectors and members of the Board of Visitors

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 18 ...

– 3rd

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

(1801–1809); founder,

Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

(1819–1826) *

James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for hi ...

– 4th

(1809–1817); Rector (1826–1836) * James Monroe – 5th

(1817–1825) *Joseph C. Cabell – Rector (1834–1836 & 1845–1856) * Chapman Johnson – Rector (1836–1845) * Andrew Stevenson – 15th

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. ...

(1827–1833); Rector (1856–1857) *

Thomas Jefferson Randolph Thomas Jefferson Randolph (September 12, 1792 – October 7, 1875) of Albemarle County was a Virginia planter, soldier and politician who served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, as rector of the University of Virginia, an ...

– Rector (1857–1864) * T. L. Preston – Rector (1864–1865) * Alexander Rives – Rector (1865–1866) * B. Johnson Barbour – Rector (1866–1872) * R. G. H. Kean – Rector (1872–1876) * Alexander H. H. Stewart – Rector (1886–1887) * John L. Marye – Rector (1888–1890) * W. C. N. Randolph – Rector (1890–1897) * Armistead C. Gordon – Rector (1897–1898 & 1906–1918) * Charles P. Jones – Rector (1898–1906) * R. Tate Irvine – Rector (1918–1920) *

John Stewart Bryan John Stewart Bryan (October 23, 1871 – October 16, 1944) was an American newspaper publisher, attorney, and college president. He was the nineteenth president of the College of William and Mary, serving from 1934 to 1942. He also served as th ...

– Rector and board member (1918–1922) *C. Harding Walker – Rector (1922–1930) * Fredric W. Scott – Rector (1930–1939) * Robert Gray Williams – Rector (1939–1946) *

Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador ...

– Rector (1946–1949) * Baron Foster Black – Rector (1949–1956) * Frank Talbott, Jr – Rector (1956–1960) * Albert Vickers Bryan – Rector (1960–1964) * Charles Rogers Fenwick – Rector (1964–1966) * Frank W. Rogers – Rector (1966–1970) * Joseph H. McConnell – Rector (1970–1976) * William L. Zimmer, III – Rector (1976–1980) *

D. French Slaughter Jr. Daniel French Slaughter Jr. (May 20, 1925 – October 2, 1998) was an American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1985, until his resignation on November 5, 1991. Early life and education Daniel S ...

– Rector (1980–1982) *

Fred G. Pollard Frederick Gresham Pollard (May 7, 1918 – July 7, 2003) of Richmond, Virginia was a lawyer and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Early life an ...

– Rector (1982–1987) * Joshua Darden Jr. – Rector (1987–1990) * Edward Elliott Elson – Rector (1990–1992) * Hovey S. Dabney – Rector (1992–1998) * John P. Ackerly, III – Rector (1998–2003) * Gordon F. Rainey Jr. – Rector (2003–2005) * Thomas F. Farrell, II – Rector (2005–2007) * H. Haywood Fralin – Rector (2007–2009) * John O. Wynne – Rector (2009–2011) *

Helen Dragas Helen E. Dragas is a Virginia real estate developer and the CEO of the Dragas Companies. She is also a former member of, and rector for, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Early life and career Education Dragas attended the University ...

– Rector (2011–2013) * George Keith Martin – Rector (2013–2015) * William H. Goodwin – Rector (2015–2017) * Frank M. "Rusty" Conner – Rector (2017–present)

Notable faculty

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Space and land exploration

Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...

(attended) –

polar Polar may refer to: Geography Polar may refer to: * Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates * Polar climate, the c ...

explorer, first to fly over

South Pole The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole, Terrestrial South Pole or 90th Parallel South, is one of the two points where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipod ...

Patrick G. Forrester Patrick Graham Forrester (born March 31, 1957) is a NASA astronaut, engineer, and former Chief of the Astronaut Office. He is a retired United States Army colonel and Army aviator. He is married and has two children. Forrester flew on three Space ...

, Grad 1989 –

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

Karl G. Henize Karl Gordon Henize (;JPL-80 "NASA Creates Portrait of Life and ...

, Col 1947, Grad 1948 –

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

; NASA astronaut * Thomas Marshburn, Engr 1984 – NASA astronaut *

Leland Melvin Leland may refer to: Places United States * Leland, Illinois, a village * Leland, Iowa, a city * Leland, Michigan, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Leland, Mississippi, a city * Leland, North Carolina, a town * Leland, O ...

, Engr 1991 – NASA astronaut * Bill Nelson, Law 1968 – NASA astronaut;

U.S. Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

Gregory Olsen Gregory Hammond Olsen (born April 20, 1945) is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventure ...

, Grad 1971 – co-founder and Chairman of Sensors Unlimited, Inc.; third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...

Kathryn C. Thornton Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (born August 17, 1952) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the Univer ...

, Grad 1977, Grad 1979 – NASA astronaut *

Jeff Wisoff Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff (born August 16, 1958) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000. Career Wis ...

, Col 1980 – NASA astronaut; engineering professor at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

United States Supreme Court

Howell Edmunds Jackson Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 until his death in 1895. His brief tenure on the Su ...

, Grad 1854 – Justice,

United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

; U.S. Senator of

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

* James Clark McReynolds, Law 1884 – Justice, United States Supreme Court *

Stanley Forman Reed Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957. He also served as U.S. Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938. Born in Mas ...

, Law 1908 – Justice, United States Supreme Court; United States Solicitor General

Politics and diplomacy

Yasushi Akashi Yasushi Akashi (明石康 ''Akashi Yasushi'', born January 19, 1931 in Hinai, Akita, Hinai, Akita Prefecture) is a senior Japanese diplomat and United Nations Administration (government), administrator. Overview Akashi graduated with Bachelo ...

, Grad 1956 – Chairman, International House of Japan; former Undersecretary of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

* George Allen, Col 1974, Law 1977 – Governor and

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

William Antholis William J. Antholis (born 1965) is a Greek-American political scientist. He is director and CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public po ...

, Col 1986—Director of UVA's

Miller Center The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in United States presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. History The Miller Center was founded in 1975 through the philanthrop ...

; former Managing Director

Brookings Brookings may refer to: Organizations * Brookings Institution, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Places * Brookings, Oregon, USA * Brookings, South Dakota, USA * Brookings County, South Dakota, USA ...

; former White House and State Department staff *

Hanan Ashrawi Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi ( ar, حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي ; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson ...

, Grad 1982 – Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process; peace activist *

Nathan L. Bachman Nathan Lynn Bachman (August 2, 1878April 23, 1937) was a United States Senate, United States Senator from Tennessee from 1933 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. Biography Bachman was born ...

, Law 1903 – U.S. Senator,

; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court *

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 ...

, Law 1900 – 35th Vice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator,

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

* Evan Bayh, Law 1981 – U.S. Senator and Governor,

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

* Andy Beshear, Law 2005 –

Governor of Kentucky The governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of government of Kentucky. Sixty-two men and one woman have served as governor of Kentucky. The governor's term is four years in length; since 1992, incumbents have been able to seek re-el ...

Rupert Blue Rupert Lee Blue (May 30, 1868 – April 12, 1948) was an American physician and soldier. He was the fourth Surgeon General of the United States from 1912 to 1920. He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1916–17. Bio ...

, Col 1890 –

Surgeon General of the United States The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. Th ...

* Kit Bond, Law 1963 – U.S. Senator,

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

Alan Stephenson Boyd Alan Stephenson Boyd (July 20, 1922October 18, 2020) was an American attorney and transportation executive who led several large corporations and also served the U.S. Government in various transportation-related positions. He was the first United ...

, Law 1948 – first

United States Secretary of Transportation The United States secretary of transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to transportation. The secre ...

Harry F. Byrd Jr. Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harry ...

, Law 1936 – U.S. Senator,

James Laurence Cabell Dr. James Lawrence Cabell (August 26, 1813 – August 13, 1889 ) was an American sanitarian and author. Life He was born in Nelson County, Virginia, the son of Dr. George Cabell, Jr., and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. He ...

, Class 1833 – President of National Board of Health *

Millard F. Caldwell Millard Fillmore Caldwell (February 6, 1897 – October 23, 1984) was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist. He was the 29th governor of Florida (1945–1949) and served in all three branches of government at various times in his life, ...

, Law 1924 – Governor,

U.S. Congressman The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

, and State Supreme Court Justice,

Mortimer Caplin Mortimer Maxwell Caplin (July 11, 1916 – July 15, 2019) was an American lawyer and educator, and the founding member of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered. Early life Caplin was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Epstein) and Daniel Caplin ...

, Law 1940 –

Internal Revenue Service The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory ta ...

commissioner, law professor, tax attorney *

James W. Carroll James W. Carroll Jr. is an American attorney and government appointee, who served as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Trump Administration from February 9, 2018 until January 20, 2021. After being confirmed by the U. ...

, Col 1985 – director of the

Office of National Drug Control Policy The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The Director of the ONDCP, colloquially known as the Drug Czar, heads the office. "Drug Czar" was a term first used ...

* James Paul Clarke, Law 1878 – United States Senator and the

18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

Governor of Arkansas A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

* John Cornyn, Law 1995 – U.S. Senator,

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

* Ken Cuccinelli, Engr 1990 –

Attorney General of Virginia The attorney general of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia. Attorneys general are elected for a four-year term in the year following a presidential election. There are no ter ...

Hugh S. Cumming Hugh Smith Cumming (August 17, 1869 – December 20, 1948) was an American physician, and soldier. He served as the fifth Surgeon General of the United States from 1920 to 1936. Biography Early life Cumming was born in Hampton, Virginia. ...

, Med 1893 –

Joseph T. Curry Joseph Tullis Curry (July 24, 1895 - August 21, 1961) was a cotton Planter (American South), planter from St. Joseph, Louisiana, St. Joseph in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1930 to 1944 as a ...

– member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1930–1944 *

William H. Daingerfield William H. Daingerfield (1808–1878) was the one-hundred-and-sixth Mayor of San Antonio, Texas. Early life William H. Daingerfield was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1808. Daingerfield attended the University of Virginia from 1828–1829, be ...

, Col 1829 – 2nd

Mayor of San Antonio The following is a list of mayors of San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio operates under a council–manager form of government.Kriston CappsWhy Julián Castro's Record as Mayor of San Antonio Doesn't Necessarily Tell Us Much About His Future at HUD ...

; Ambassador *

Henry Winter Davis Henry Winter Davis (August 16, 1817December 30, 1865) was a United States Representative from the 4th and 3rd congressional districts of Maryland, well known as one of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War. He was the driving force behin ...

, Law 1841 – outspoken Radical Republican;

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

Collins Denny Jr. Collins Denny Jr. (1899–1964) was a Virginia lawyer who became known for his opposition to racial integration. He was a legal counsel to public school boards, arguing against the school segregation in the United States, integration of black st ...

(1899–1964), Law 1924 – pro-segregationist lawyer *

Mary DeRosa Mary B. DeRosa is currently a Professor from Practice at the Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Presidency of Barack Obama, Obama Administration and Legal A ...

, Col 1981 – former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the

Obama Administration Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...

* Hasjim Djalal, Law 1959 – Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; Chairman and President of the International Seabed Authority, international law of the sea expert * Joseph T. Doyle, Grad 1990 – Pennsylvania State Representative for the 163rd district (1971–1978) *

William A. Eaton William Alan Eaton is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and United States Ambassador to Panama. Biography Eaton was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1952. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in inte ...

, Col 1978 – United States Ambassador to Panama, United States Assistant Secretary of State * Paul Erickson, Law 1988 – political consultant *

William Meade Fishback William Meade Fishback (November 5, 1831February 9, 1903) was the 17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator-elect for Arkansas. Early life Fishback was born in Jeffersonton, Virginia, in Culpeper County, Virginia, the son of Sophia Ann (Yate ...

, Law 1855 –

17th 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...

and U.S. Senator-Elect,

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

* Luis Fortuño, Law 1985 –

Governor of Puerto Rico The governor of Puerto Rico ( es, gobernador de Puerto Rico) is the head of government of the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and commander-in-chief of the Puerto Rico National Guard. The governor has a duty ...

Thomas Watt Gregory Thomas Watt Gregory (November 6, 1861February 26, 1933) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a progressive and attorney who served as US Attorney General from 1914 to 1919 under US President Woodrow Wilson. Early life Gregory was born ...

, Law 1884 –

Attorney General of the United States The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...

Michael E. Guest Michael E. Guest (born 1957) was a U.S. Ambassador to Romania during the George W. Bush presidency. Guest was sworn in by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 18, 2001, and took up his duties on September 24, 2001. His partner Alex N ...

, Grad 1981 – U.S. Ambassador to

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the

U.S. Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

and serve as a U.S. Ambassador *

Barbara Halliday Barbara Jane Halliday (born 1949) is the mayor of Hayward, California, elected to the office by a plurality in the June 3, 2014 California primary election. Halliday was a city council member for 10 years prior to her election as mayor. She follo ...

, Mayor of

Hayward, California Hayward () is a city located in Alameda County, California in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda Coun ...

Hilary A. Herbert Hilary Abner Herbert (March 12, 1834 – March 6, 1919) was Secretary of the Navy in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. Biography ...

, Law 1855 –

Secretary of the Navy The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense. By law, the se ...

* Mark Herring, Col 1983, Grad 1986 –

, member of the

Senate of Virginia The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the lieutenant governor of Virg ...

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and planter. He was a U.S. representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. senator (1847 ...

, Col 1828 –

and

Eppa Hunton Eppa Hunton II (September 24, 1822October 11, 1908) was a Virginia lawyer and soldier who rose to become a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as a Democrat in both the United States ...

, Law 1843 – CSA Brigadier General;

and

Louis A. Johnson Louis Arthur Johnson (January 10, 1891April 24, 1966) was an American politician and attorney who served as the second United States Secretary of Defense from 1949 to 1950. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1937 to 1940 and the 15th na ...

, Law 1913 – Second

United States Secretary of Defense The United States secretary of defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high ranking member of the federal cabinet. DoDD 5100.1: Enclosure 2: a The s ...

* Brereton Jones, Comm 1961 – Governor of

Edward M. Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...

, Law 1959 – U.S. Senator,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

John Neely Kennedy John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. He served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017. Kennedy has been a memb ...

, Law 1977 – U.S. Senator,

Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...

, State Treasurer of Louisiana *

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...

, Law 1951 – U.S. Senator,

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General *

Angus King Angus Stanley King Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maine since 2013. A political independent since 1993, he previously served as the 72nd governor of Maine from 1995 ...

, Law 1969 – 72nd Governor of

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

, United States Senator from Maine *

William Preston Lane Jr. William Preston Lane Jr. (May 12, 1892 – February 7, 1967) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of Maryland from 1947 to 1951. Early life and education Lane was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on May 12, 1892, ...

, Law 1915 – Governor,

J. Hamilton Lewis James Hamilton Lewis (May 18, 1863 – April 9, 1939) was an American attorney and politician. Sometimes referred to as J. Ham Lewis or Ham Lewis, he represented Washington in the United States House of Representatives, and Illinois in the Unite ...

–

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...

and first

Whip A whip is a tool or weapon designed to strike humans or other animals to exert control through pain compliance or fear of pain. They can also be used without inflicting pain, for audiovisual cues, such as in equestrianism. They are generally e ...

Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. Stephen Nathaniel Limbaugh Jr. (born January 25, 1952) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. From 1992 to 2008, he served as a Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri. E ...

, Law 1988, Missouri Supreme Court Justice * Sean Patrick Maloney, Col 1988, Law 1992 – U.S. Congressman,

New York's 18th congressional district The 18th congressional district of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that contains the northern suburbs and exurbs of New York City. It is currently represented by Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney. ...

and former White House Office of the Staff Secretary *

Thurgood Marshall Jr. Thurgood Marshall Jr. (born August 12, 1956) is an American lawyer and son of the late Supreme Court of the United States Justice Thurgood Marshall. Marshall worked in the Bill Clinton White House and is a retired international law firm partner. ...

, Col 1978, Law 1981 – former

White House Cabinet Secretary The White House Cabinet secretary is a high-ranking position within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The White House Cabinet Secretary is the head of the Office of Cabinet Affairs within the White House Office and the p ...

* Roy Martin, 131st mayor of

Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ...

(1962-1974), 31st

President of the United States Conference of Mayors The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. The cities are each represented by their mayors or other chief elected officials. The organization was founded i ...

(1973-1974) *

Henry M. Mathews Henry Mason Mathews (March 29, 1834April 28, 1884) was an American military officer, lawyer, and politician in the U.S. State of West Virginia. Mathews served as 7th Attorney General of West Virginia (1873–1877) and 5th Governor of West Virgin ...

, Grad 1856 – Governor of West Virginia *

Samuel D. McEnery Samuel Douglas McEnery (May 28, 1837 – June 28, 1910) served as the List of Governors of Louisiana, 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a United States Senate, U.S. senator f ...

, Col 1857 – Governor and U.S. Senator for

* Ana Montes, Col 1979 – convicted Cuban spy *

John S. Mosby John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's ...

(attended) – the "Gray Ghost", CSA guerilla fighter *

Robert Mueller Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer and government official who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. A graduate of Princeton University and New York ...

, Law 1973 – director of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...

* Janet Napolitano, Law 1983 – President of the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

System; former Governor of

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

and Secretary of Homeland Security * Bill Nelson, Law 1968 – U.S. Senator,

; NASA astronaut * Kirstjen Nielsen, Law 1999 – 6th

Secretary A secretary, administrative professional, administrative assistant, executive assistant, administrative officer, administrative support specialist, clerk, military assistant, management assistant, office secretary, or personal assistant is a w ...

of the

United States Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the Federal government of the United States, U.S. United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the I ...

Michelle Nunn Mary Michelle Nunn (born November 16, 1966) is an American philanthropic executive and politician. Since 2015 she has been president and CEO oCARE USA the American national member of CARE International, the humanitarian aid and international deve ...

, Col 1989 – President of

CARE Care may refer to: Organizations and projects * CARE (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation * CARE (relief agency), "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere", an international aid and ...

USA; former US Senate candidate, Georgia * Andy Oldham, Col 2001 – Judge on the

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following federal judicial districts: * Eastern District of Louisiana * M ...

Longin Pastusiak Longin Hieronim Pastusiak (pronounced ; born August 22, 1935 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish politician and historian. Academic career In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affa ...

, Grad 1959 – Marshall of the Senate,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

* Ken Paxton, Law 1991 –

Attorney General of Texas The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer
of the

George W. Randolph George Wythe Randolph (March 10, 1818 – April 3, 1867) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, politician and Confederate general. After representing the City of Richmond during the Virginia Secession Convention in 1861, during eight months in ...

, Law 1842 – Confederate States Secretary of War * Thomas Caute Reynolds, Law 1838 – 11th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri; Governor of

(

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 ...

) *

Chuck Robb Charles Spittal Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician from Virginia and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as the List of governors of Vir ...

, Law 1973 – Governor and U.S. Senator, Virginia * Joseph Taylor Robinson, Law 1895 – Governor and United States Senate Majority Leader, Arkansas *

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointed United States Under Secre ...

, Law 1940 –

Chuck Rosenberg Chuck Rosenberg is an American attorney who served as Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 2015 to 2017. He formerly served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) and for the Southern District ...

, Law 1990 – former United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia and Southern District of Texas; former Counsel to the FBI Director; former Chief of Staff to the US Deputy Attorney General; former Counselor to the US Attorney General * Chip Roy, Commerce 1994 – U.S. Congressman,

Texas's 21st congressional district Texas's 21st congressional district of the United States House of Representatives serves the area north of San Antonio and a significant portion of Austin in the state of Texas. Towns entirely or partially in this district include Boerne, Frede ...

* Larry Sabato, Col 1974 – politics professor; Director of the

University of Virginia Center for Politics The University of Virginia Center for Politics (CfP) is a nonpartisan organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia, that seeks to increase civic knowledge and involvement among all citizens. It was founded in 1998 by professor and political a ...

; called the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the ''

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' * Mark Sanford, Darden 1988 – former

Governor of South Carolina The governor of South Carolina is the head of government of South Carolina. The governor is the '' ex officio'' commander-in-chief of the National Guard when not called into federal service. The governor's responsibilities include making year ...

* Thomas A. Saunders III, Darden 1967 – Chairman of

The Heritage Foundation The Heritage Foundation (abbreviated to Heritage) is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. that is primarily geared toward public policy. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presiden ...

* Eugene Scalia, Col 1985 – 28th United States Secretary of Labor *

Thomas A. Scully Thomas Andrew Scully (born October 24, 1957) is an American lawyer and former government official. He was the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2001 to 2004 under President George W. Bush. Scully is curren ...

, Col 1979 – former Administrator of the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer M ...

* James Alexander Seddon, Grad 1836 – 4th Confederate States Secretary of War *

Faryar Shirzad Faryar Shirzad (in fa, فریار شیرزاد); born 1965 in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England ...

, Law 1992 – advisor to United States 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 ...

Marc Short Marc Short (born March 3, 1970) is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to holding this role, Short was the director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018. He became ...

, Darden 2004 – former White House Director of Legislative Affairs *

John William Snow John William Snow (born August 2, 1939) is an American economist, attorney, and businessman who is the former CEO of CSX Corporation and served as the 73rd United States secretary of the treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced ...

, Grad 1965 –

United States Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

* Javier Solana, Grad 1968 – Spanish former

Secretary General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

foreign policy chief *

William B. Spong Jr. William Belser Spong Jr. (September 29, 1920October 8, 1997) was an American Democratic Party politician and a United States Senator who represented the state of Virginia from 1966 to 1973. Biography Early life and education Spong was born in P ...

, Law 1947 – U.S. Senator, Virginia *

John C. Stennis John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901April 23, 1995) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for hi ...

, Law 1928 – U.S. Senator,

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

Edward Stettinius Jr. Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador ...

, Col 1924 –

United States Secretary of State The United States secretary of state is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The office holder is one of the highest ranking members of the president's Ca ...

* Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, Law 1835 – Missouri Attorney General and Border Ruffian *

Robert M. Switzer Robert Mauck Switzer (March 6, 1863 – October 28, 1952) was an American educator, lawyer and politician who served four terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1911 to 1919. Biography Early ...

, Law – United States Representative *

Charles L. Terry Jr. Charles Layman Terry Jr. (September 17, 1900 – February 6, 1970) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court ...

, Col 1922 – Governor,

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

* Robert Toombs, Law 1830 – U.S. Senator, Georgia *

John V. Tunney John Varick Tunney (June 26, 1934 – January 12, 2018) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator and Representative from the state of California in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the son of boxing champion Gene Tunney. ...

, Law 1959 – U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator,

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

Thomas B. Turley Thomas Battle Turley (April 5, 1845July 1, 1910) was a Tennessee attorney who served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1897 to 1901. Biography Turley was born in Memphis and attended public schools and was a private in the Confederat ...

, Law 1867 – U.S. Senator,

William M. Walton William Martin Walton (January 17, 1832 – July 1, 1915) was a prominent lawyer in Austin, Texas. During the Civil War, Walton served as a major in the Confederate Army. After the war, he was elected attorney general of the state and also ...

, Law 1851 –

Attorney General of Texas The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer
of the

John Warner John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 200 ...

, Law 1953 – U.S. Senator, Virginia * Mac Warner, Law 1991 – Secretary of State of West Virginia *

Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (; born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He wa ...

, Law 1957 – Governor, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Senator,

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

Kevin Whitaker Kevin Whitaker (born April 28, 1957) is a United States career diplomat who is the former United States Ambassador to Colombia. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 2014, and sworn in on April 28, 2014. Career Kevin Whitake ...

, Col 1979 – United States Ambassador to Colombia * Sheldon Whitehouse, Law 1982 – Attorney General of Rhode Island, United States Senator from

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

* John C. White, English 1998 – Louisiana education superintendent since 2012 *

John Sharp Williams John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908 ...

, Law 1876 –

Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are congresspeople who coordinate legislative initiatives and serve as the chief spokespersons for their parties on the House floor. These leaders are ele ...

Wayne W. Williams Wayne Warren Williams (born January 19, 1963) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he serves as an at-large member on the city council of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was the Secretary of State of Colora ...

, Law 1989 –

Secretary of State of Colorado The secretary of state of Colorado is the secretary of state of the state of Colorado in the United States. The office is one of five elected constitutional offices in the state. The current secretary of state is Democrat Jena Griswold. Structure ...

Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...

(attended) – 28th President of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

* Walter Wyatt, Law 1917 – General Counsel,

Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...

Yan Huiqing Yan Huiqing (Wade–Giles: Yen Hui-Ch'ing, (also Weiching Williams Yen or simply W.W. Yen) 顏惠慶 (2 April 1877 – 24 May 1950) was a Chinese diplomat and politician who served under the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the People's Re ...

, Col 1900 –

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of governm ...

and

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; 1st Chinese Ambassador to the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

; Chinese Representative in the

League of Nations The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ...

Greg Casar Gregorio Eduardo Casar (born May 4, 1989) is an American politician who is the member for Texas's 35th congressional district in the United States Congress since 2023. He served as a member of the Austin City Council from the 4th district from 20 ...

, Col 2012 - U.S. Congressman, Texas

Business

* Lee Ainslie, Comm 1986 – founder and managing partner of

Maverick Capital Maverick Capital is an American hedge fund firm. It was founded by Lee Ainslie in 1993, who was a " Tiger Cub" under Julian Robertson at Tiger Management, helped raise $38 million in capital by the family of Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly Samuel ...

Eric C. Anderson Eric C. Anderson (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur and aerospace engineer. He is the co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., the first commercial spaceflight company, which has arranged for eight missions for privately funded ind ...

, Engr 1996 – President and CEO, co-founder, Space Adventures * David T. Beers, Col 1975 – Special Adviser to the Governor of the

Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada (BoC; french: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. Chartered in 1934 under the ''Bank of Canada Act'', it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy,OECD. OECD Economic Surveys: Ca ...

, former head of sovereign credit ratings,

Standard & Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is con ...

Alfred Berkeley Alfred R. Berkeley, III (born in 1944) is an American businessman who was president of NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. from 1996 until 2000 and later vice-chair of the NASDAQ from 2000 to 2003. Currently, Berkeley is Chairman of Princeton Capital Mana ...

, Col 1966 – President,

NASDAQ Stock Exchange The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second ...

John H. Bryan John Henry Bryan Jr. (October 5, 1936 – October 1, 2018) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation from 1975 until 2001. He also was the philanthropic driving force behind the creation of Millennium Park ...

, Darden 1960 – CEO and Chairman of

Sara Lee Sara may refer to: Arts, media and entertainment Film and television * Sara (1992 film), ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui * Sara (1997 film), ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda * Sara (2010 ...

Algernon S. Buford Algernon Sidney Buford (January 2, 1826 – May 6, 1911) was a Virginian businessman, politician, and lawyer best known for his 22-year presidency of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, during which he was responsible for growing the line from 1 ...

, Law 1850 – President, Richmond and Danville Railroad *

W. Graham Claytor Jr. William Graham Claytor Jr. (March 14, 1912 – May 14, 1994) was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, and railroad, transportation and defense administrator for the United States government, working under the administrations of three ...

, Col 1933 – President, Southern Railway and

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

; and

U.S. Secretary of the Navy The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense. By law, the sec ...

* George David, Darden 1967 – Chairman and CEO,

United Technologies Corporation United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researched, developed, and manufactured products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, aerospace systems ...

William Stamps Farish III William Stamps Farish III (born March 17, 1939) is an American businessman and a former US ambassador to the UK from 2001 until 2004. Family and early life He was an only child, his father, Army Lt. William Stamps Farish Jr., died in a trainin ...

, Col 1962 – Chairman of the Board,

Churchill Downs Churchill Downs is a horse racing complex located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, famed for hosting the annual Kentucky Derby. It officially opened in 1875 and was named for Samuel Churchill, whose family was ...

, U.S. ambassador to the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

* William A. Hawkins, Darden 1982 – CEO, Medtronic Corp. * Bob Hugin, Darden 1985 – Chair of

Celgene Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs. Its major product is Revlimid ( lenalidomide), which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and also in certain anemias. The company is incorporated in ...

Mansoor Ijaz Mansoor Ijaz (born August 1961) is a Pakistani-American venture financier and hedge-fund manager. He is founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management Ltd, a New York and London-based investment firm that operates ''CARAT'', a proprietary ...

, Col 1983 – founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd *

Paul Tudor Jones Paul Tudor Jones II (born September 28, 1954) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, conservationist and philanthropist. In 1980, he founded his hedge fund, Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, ...

, Col 1976 – President and founder,

Tudor Investment Corporation Tudor Investment Corporation is an American investment firm based in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm invests in both Public equities, public and Private equity, private markets globally. Background In 1980, Paul Tudor Jones founded the Tudor ...

and the

Robin Hood Foundation The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization which attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City. The organization also administers a relief fund for disasters in the New York City area. In 2010, a key supporter gave ...

, billionaire * Stephen P. Joyce, Comm 1982 – former president and CEO of Choice Hotels as well as CEO of

Dine Brands Global Dine Brands Global Inc. is a publicly traded food and beverage company based in Glendale, California. Founded in 1958 as IHOP, it operates franchised and corporate owned full-service restaurants including two restaurant concepts, Applebee's Ne ...

Randal J. Kirk Randal J. Kirk (born March 1, 1954) is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk was the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon (NYSE: XON), a biotechnology company, until 2020. Kirk started as a l ...

, Law 1979 – founder, chairman, New River Pharmaceutical; billionaire *

Alan Lafley Alan George "A. G." Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is an American businessman who led Consumables, consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble, Procter & Gamble (P&G) for two separate stints, from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, during which he ...

(attended) – CEO, Chairman of the Board,

Procter & Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...

Paul Manheim Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

, 1925 - business executive, director and partner,

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Gol ...

, Asian art collector *

Alexander F. Mathews Alexander Ferdinand Mathews (November 13, 1838 – December 17, 1906) was an American lawyer, banker, and university board director in the U.S. State of West Virginia. He served as a Confederate officer and aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Hen ...

, M.A. 1856 – President and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of RonceverteThe American Historical Society (1923). "Mathews Family of Greenbrier." The History of West Virginia, Old and New (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, Inc.) 2: 7-9. http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/greenbrier/bios/wvoldnew/m3200001.txt Retrieved October 19, 2012 *

Halsey Minor Halsey McLean Minor Sr. is an American businessman who is known for founding CNET in 1993, the first comprehensive consumer-facing technology content publisher. He is also the founder or co-founder of the technology companies such as the virtual ...

, Col 1987 – co-founder and former CEO,

CNET ''CNET'' (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. ''CNET'' originally produced content for radio and televi ...

Inc. * Nick Morgan – speaking coach and author *

Daniel Mudd Daniel H. Mudd (born 1956) is the former president and CEO of Fannie Mae, a post he held from 2005 to 2008, and more recently for years, the CEO of Fortress Investment Group. Education and early career Mudd holds a B.A. degree in American histor ...

, Col 1980 – CEO, Fannie Mae *

Tammy Murphy Tammy Murphy ( ''née'' Snyder; born August 5, 1965) is an American financier who has been the First Lady of New Jersey since 2018. She is also the chair of professional women's soccer team NJ/NY Gotham FC, which she co-owns with her husband, the ...

, Col 1987 – analyst, associate, and project lead at

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

William Nelson Page William Nelson Page (January 6, 1854 – March 7, 1932) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. He was active in the Virginias following the U.S. Civil War. Page was widely known as a metallurgical expert by other industry leaders a ...

(attended) – civil engineer, co-founder of the

Virginian Railway The Virginian Railway was a Class I railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads. History ...

, Col 1989 – CEO, Points of Light * Charles T. Pepper, Med 1855 – the original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company *

Steven Reinemund Steven S. Reinemund (born April 6, 1948) is an American businessman who was chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo between 2001 and 2006 and dean of the Schools of Business at Wake Forest University between 2008 and 2014. Reinemund spe ...

, Darden 1978 – Chairman and CEO,

Pepsi Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961. History Pepsi was ...

Co Inc. * Ed Romanoff, Entrepreneur and singer-songwriter * Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Col 1948 – Colombian businessman, billionaire * Sheridan Snyder, Col 1958 – entrepreneur and philanthropist * Samuel Spencer, Engr 1868 – first President, Southern Railway *

Mark B. Templeton Mark B. Templeton is an American businessman. He served as the President and CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. from 2001 to 2015. Early life and education Templeton attended North Carolina State University, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternit ...

, Darden 1978 – President and CEO,

Citrix Systems Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. C ...

Jaffray Woodriff Jaffray Piers Woodriff (born April 8, 1969, in Virginia) is the co-founder and CEO of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM), a $1 billion hedge fund. Woodriff founded QIM with Michael Geismar and Greyson Williams in 2003. Woodriff attended the ...

, Comm 1991 – CEO and co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM) *

Robert R. Young Robert Ralph Young (February 14, 1897 – January 25, 1958) was an American financier and industrialist. He is best known for leading the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the New York Central Railroad during and after World War II. He was a ...

(attended) – Chairman of the Board,

C&O Railroad The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond t ...

Science and technology

* John Backus (attended) – inventor of first

high-level programming language In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong Abstraction (computer science), abstraction from the details of the computer. In contrast to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language ...

, FORTRAN, and recipient of the 1977

A.M. Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in comput ...

* Daniel Barringer, Grad 1888 – proved the existence of meteorites on Earth ( Barringer Meteorite Crater) * Jesse Beams, Grad 1926 – one of five primary physicists selected for the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

, pioneer of

ultracentrifuge An ultracentrifuge is a centrifuge optimized for spinning a rotor at very high speeds, capable of generating acceleration as high as (approx. ). There are two kinds of ultracentrifuges, the preparative and the analytical ultracentrifuge. Both cla ...

* William Yancey Brown, Col 1969 - President of

Bishop Museum The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the lar ...

, author and institutional leader *

S. Ward Casscells S. Ward "Trip" Casscells (March 18, 1952 – October 14, 2012) was an American cardiologist who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq and later was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Among other honors, he was the recipient of the Dis ...

, Med 1939 – pioneering orthopedic surgeon, introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States *

Edmund M. Clarke Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (July 27, 1945 – December 22, 2020) was an American computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He was the FORE Systems Professor ...

, Col 1967 – FORE Systems Professor of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

Emeritus at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

and recipient of the 2007

Anita H. Clayton Anita H. Clayton is the Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and the David C. Wilson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School ...

, Med 1982 – Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and the David C. Wilson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the

University of Virginia School of Medicine The University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA SoM) is the graduate medical school of the University of Virginia. The school's facilities are on the University of Virginia grounds adjacent to Academical Village in Charlottesville, Virginia. ...

. * Francis Collins, Col 1970 – director of the

Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...

and past Director, NIH *

Norman L. Crabill Norman L. Crabill (born October 28, 1926) is a retired NASA engineer. An employee of NASA since its creation in 1958, Crabill was originally employed by its predecessor National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. Over the course of his n ...

, MAE – engineer, inventor, author * Lisa L. Cunningham , Ph.D. neuroscience,

NIDCD The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a member of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disor ...

Scientific Director * Heber Doust Curtis, Grad 1902 –

who participated in the " Great Debate" with

Harlow Shapley Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal. Shapley used Cepheid variable stars to estim ...

, 1920 *

David John Doukas David John Doukas (born 4 November 1957, Washington, DC), is an American family physician and bioethicist. He holds the James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, and directs the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at Tulane ...

, Col 1975 – Clinical bioethics scholar, Family Physician *

Wade Hampton Frost Wade Hampton Frost (March 3, 1880 – May 1, 1938) was born in Marshall, Virginia. He was the son of a country doctor. Before college, he was first homeschooled by his mother, and then spent the final two years in boarding school. He received his ...

, Med 1903 – established epidemiology as a science; founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health * Matthew P. Hardy, Ph.D. in Biology 1985 – reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in

Leydig cell Leydig cells, also known as interstitial cells of the testes and interstitial cells of Leydig, are found adjacent to the seminiferous tubules in the testicle and produce testosterone in the presence of luteinizing hormone (LH). They are polyhedral ...

differentiation and function *

J. Hartwell Harrison John Hartwell Harrison (February 16, 1909January 20, 1984) was an American urology, urologic surgeon, professor, and author. He performed the first human organ removal for Organ transplantation, transplant to another. This was a pivotal undertak ...

, Med 1932 – pioneer kidney transplant surgeon, member of Board of Visitors * Steve Huffman, Engr 2005 – co-founder of

Reddit Reddit (; stylized in all lowercase as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images ...

Richard Lutz Richard Arthur Lutz (born June 8, 1949) is an American marine biologist and deep-sea oceanographer. He is known for deep-sea research using the '' Alvin'' submersible, and is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the ecology of d ...

, Col 1971 – deep sea vent researcher, Director of the

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

Janet Akyüz Mattei Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004. Biography Mattei was born in Bodrum, Turkey t ...

, Grad 1972 – astronomer; Director, the

American Association of Variable Star Observers The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) is an international nonprofit organization, founded in 1911, focused on coordinating, analyzing, publishing, and archiving variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers. ...

Edward P. Ney Edward Purdy Ney (October 28, 1920 – July 9, 1996) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei a ...

, Ph.D 1946 and Faculty 1946–47 – astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei * Haller Nutt (attended 1832-35) -- developer of the Egypto-Mexican cotton hybrid * Alexis Ohanian, Comm 2005 – co-founder of Reddit *

Charles Pollard Olivier Charles Pollard Olivier (April 10, 1884 – August 14, 1975) was an American astronomer, notable for his contributions to the study of meteors, double stars and variable stars. Biography Charles grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he li ...

, Grad 1911 – astronomer; founder,

American Meteor Society The American Meteor Society, Ltd. (AMS) is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the field of meteor astronomy. Its affi ...

Charlie Papazian Charles N. Papazian (born January 23 ca. 1949) is an American nuclear engineer, brewer and author. He founded the Association of Brewers and the Great American Beer Festival, and wrote ''The Complete Joy of Home Brewing'' (1984). He is the longtim ...

, nuclear engineer; influential member of the American homebrewing movement *

Phil Plait Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objec ...

, Grad 1994 – author of '' Bad Astronomy'' and Bad Astronomy blog *

Walter Reed Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than b ...

, Med 1869 – discovered transmission of

yellow fever Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains – particularly in the back – and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. In ...

Mendel Rosenblum Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware. Early life Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. Whil ...

, Col 1984 – co-founder of

VMware VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. VMware's desktop software ru ...

* Stuart Schreiber, Col 1977 – chemical biologist; founding member of the

Broad Institute The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (IPA: , pronunciation respelling: ), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U ...

of Harvard and MIT *

Nicole Shelton J. Nicole Shelton is an American psychologist and Stuart Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on racial prejudice and interactions between whites and ethnic minorities. Early life and education Shelton grew up in ...

, M.A 1996, Ph.D. 1998 – Stuart Professor of Psychology at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

* Ann M. Valentine, BS 1993 – inorganic chemist *

Alexander N. Vyssotsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Высо́тский, 23 May 1888 – 31 December 1973) was a Russian- American astronomer. Born in Moscow, in 1923 he moved to the United States, where he event ...

, Grad 1927 – astronomer; cataloged

Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...

M dwarf stars * Beverly R. Wellford, Grad 1816 – sixth President of the

American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) is a professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. Founded in 1847, it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership was approximately 240,000 in 2016. The AMA's state ...

* Thomas W. Whitaker, MS 1929, PhD 1931 – botanist and horticulturist *

Ralph Elmer Wilson Ralph Elmer Wilson (April 14, 1886 – March 25, 1960) was an American astronomer. Wilson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Herbert Couper Wilson and Mary B. Nichols. He earned his B.A. from Carleton College and entered the Universit ...

, Grad 1910 – astronomer; Wilson crater on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

was co-named after him *

Carl A. Wirtanen Carl Alvar Wirtanen (November 11, 1910 – March 7, 1990) was an American astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets who worked at Lick Observatory. He was of Finnish ancestry. Wirtanen was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After visitin ...

, Grad 1939 – astronomer; discovered a number of

asteroids An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

and comets * William Wulf, Grad 1966 – designer of

BLISS programming language BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C be ...

, President of the National Academy of Engineering *

Hugh H. Young Hugh Hampton Young (September 18, 1870 – August 23, 1945) was an American surgery, surgeon, urologist, and medical researcher. Biography Hugh H. Young was born in San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, Texas on September 18, 1870. He was the son of ...

, Col 1889, Med 1891 – inventor, author, pioneering surgeon

Writers and academics

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...

(attended) – poet, "Father of Gothic Literature", American Literary figure, author of '' The Raven'', ''

The Tell-Tale Heart "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the n ...

'' * Louis Auchincloss, Law 1941 – novelist, lawyer,

National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but ...

Finalist (1967, 1965, 1961, 1960) *

Helen Wan Helen Catherine Wan (born January 29, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American novelist and lawyer. She is the author of the 2013 novel ''The Partner Track'', the story of a young Chinese-American woman poised to become the first minority female partner at ...

, Law 1998 - novelist, lawyer, author of ''

Partner Track '' Partner Track'' is an American legal drama streaming television series developed by Georgia Lee, based on Helen Wan's 2013 novel ''The Partner Track''. It premiered on Netflix on August 26, 2022. In November 2022, the series was canceled af ...

'' *

Laura Dave Laura Dave (born July 18, 1977) is an American novelist. Early life Dave was born in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her interest in writing began when she was in elementary school. Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylv ...

, MFA 2003 - novelist '' The Last Thing He Told Me'' *

Hannah Pittard __NOTOC__ Hannah Pittard is an American novelist and author of short stories. Early life and education Pittard was raised in Georgia. She attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where she received praise for her creative writing. She earned a ...

, MFA 2007 - Novelist * Melissa Kirsch, Col 1996 - author, assistant editor, culture and lifestyle at

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

* Claudia Emerson, Col 1979 – 2006

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 ...

winner for poetry,

Poet Laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

2008 of Virginia *

Christina Baker Kline Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels, including ''Orphan Train'', and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Kline is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship recipient. Back ...

, MFA 1990 - Novelist *

Sheryl Gay Stolberg Sheryl Gay Stolberg (born November 18, 1961) is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C. who covers health policy for ''The New York Times''. She is a former Congressional correspondent and White House correspondent who covered Presidents ...

Col 1983 - Journalist for the

Adam Mitzner Adam Mitzner (born 1964) is an American writer of legal thrillers and a practicing attorney. Early life Mitzner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a 1982 graduate of East Brunswick High School, w ...

, Law 1989 - Novelist, recipient of the Silver Gavel Awards *

Emma Copley Eisenberg Emma Copley Eisenberg is a queer American writer of fiction and nonfiction works. Her first book, ''The Third Rainbow Girl'', was nominated for an Edgar Award, Lambda Literary Award, and Anthony Bouchercon Award. Personal life Copley Eisenberg ...

, MFA 2014 - author of '' The Third Rainbow Girl'' *

David Blight David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previous ...

, Col 2020 -

Winner in History for '' Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'' *

Taylor Antrim Taylor Antrim (born 1974) is a writer and editor best known for his novels ''The Headmaster Ritual'' and ''Immunity''. Antrim is a graduate of Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Virginia. He is currently Executi ...

, MFA 2004 - Novelist *

Aoibheann Sweeney Aoibheann Sweeney (born 1969) is an American author. Biography She was raised in Massachusetts and attended Harvard University and the University of Virginia's MFA Program, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her first novel, ''Among Other Th ...

, MFA 2000 - Novelist, author of ''

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking ''Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking'' is a novel by Aoibheann Sweeney, published in 2007 by Penguin Press. A girl grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with gay friends of her father ...

'' *

Oni Buchanan Oni Buchanan (born 1975) is an American poet, and pianist. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Spring'' (University of Illinois Press, 2008), a 2007 National Poetry Series winner. Her discography includes three solo piano CDs on the independ ...

, Col 1997 - Poet, National Poetry Series Winner 2007 *

William Cabell Bruce William Cabell Bruce (March 12, 1860May 9, 1946) was an American politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who represented the State of Maryland in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929. Background Bruce was born in Charlotte County, V ...

, Col 1880 - 1918

winner in Biography * Samantha Thornhill, MFA 2004 - Poet * Ted Genoways, MFA 1999 - Writer, journalist, author *

Amy Argetsinger Amy Argetsinger is an editor for the Style section of ''The Washington Post''. A staff writer with ''The Post'' since 1995, she covered the Maryland suburbs, higher education and later the West Coast as an L.A.-based reporter before serving eight ...

, Col 1990 - Writer and Editor at the

Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...

Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley (born May 5, 1980, in Vienna, Virginia) is an American poet and non-fiction writer. Background Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, earned a B.A. in English ''magna cum laude'' from the U ...

, Col 2002 - Poet and writer, 2009

Barnard Women Poets Prize The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a literary award in the United States for an English language book of poetry. From 1986 to 2001, the prize was a first-book award called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Winners had their poetry book published und ...

Lulu Miller Louisa Elizabeth Miller, better known as Lulu Miller, is an American writer and Peabody Award-winning science reporter for National Public Radio. Miller's career in radio started as a producer for the WNYC program ''Radiolab''. She helped create ...

, MFA 2013 - Writer and

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 ...

winning Science Reporter for NPR * Alexis Schaitkin, MFA 2013 - author of ''

Saint X ''Saint X'' is an American psychological drama television series developed by Leila Gerstein, based on the novel of the same name by Alexis Schaitkin. The series premiered on Hulu on April 26, 2023. Premise Based on the bestselling novel, this ...

'' *

Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), is an American author, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. Best known for his internationally best-selling and award-winning Holocaust family memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, he is curre ...

, Col 1982 - Writer and columnist, author of '' The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million'', Professor at Bard College *

Corban Addison Corban Addison is an American author. He holds degrees in law and mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia School of Law and California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal ...

, Law 2004 - Author of '' A Walk Across the Sun'' *

Jenna Wortham Jenna Wortham is an American journalist. They work as a culture writer for ''The New York Times Magazine'' and co-hosts ''The New York Times'' podcast '' Still Processing'' with Wesley Morris. In 2020, with Kimberly Drew, Wortham published '' Bla ...

, Col 2004 - author and journalist, culture writer at the

, '' Black Futures'' *

Jamelle Bouie Jamelle Antoine Bouie (born April 12, 1987) is an American columnist for ''The New York Times''. He was formerly chief political correspondent for ''Slate''. David Uberti, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019, called Bouie "one of ...

, Col 2009 - columnist for the

Forbes 30 under 30 ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 is a set of lists of people under 30 years old issued annually by ''Forbes'' magazine and some of its regional editions. The American lists recognize 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in twenty industries ...

2015 * Christopher Catherwood, 2001 - Author and Historian *

Lisa Russ Spaar Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. She is the author of nu ...

, Col 1978, MFA 1982 - Poet,

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for the Creative Arts, Professor at

Kiki Petrosino Kiki Petrosino (born 1979) is an American poet and professor of poetry. She currently teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Early life and education Petrosino was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After spend ...

, Col 201 - Poet *

Erika Meitner Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet. Life She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies. She taught at Univ ...

, MFA - Poet,

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...

Finalist 2018 for Poetry *

Susanne Antonetta Susanne Antonetta is the pen name of Suzanne Paola (born September 29, 1956, in Georgia), an American poet and author who is most widely known for her book ''Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir''. In 2001, ''Body Toxic'' was named by the ''New Y ...

MFA 1989 - poet and author * Sarah Posner, Law 1990 - Writer and Journalist * John Dickerson (journalist), Col 1991 - Journalist and author * Vashti Harrison, Col 2010 - Children's Book Writer, Illustrator, and Filmmaker, illustrator of ''

Sulwe ''Sulwe'' is a children's fiction picture book by actress Lupita Nyong'o. It follows the story of a young girl who wishes for her dark skin to be lighter. The story is ultimately about colorism and learning to love oneself, no matter one's skin ...

'' * Kyle Dargan, Col 2002 - Poet, 2019

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

Jia Tolentino Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino (born 1988) is an American writer and editor. A staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' she previously worked as deputy editor of ''Jezebel'' and a contributing editor at ''The Hairpin''. Her writing has also appeared in ' ...

, Col 2009 - Writer and editor, author of '' Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion'', Staff Writer at ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' *

Mary Beth Keane Mary Beth Keane is an American writer of Irish parentage. She is the author of ''The Walking People'' (2009)'','' ''Fever'' (2013)'','' ''Ask Again, Yes'' (2019), and ''The Half Moon'' (2023). In 2011 she was named one of the National Book Found ...

, MFA 2005 - novelist, Finalist

Goodreads Readers Choice Awards Goodreads is an American Social cataloging application, social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and regis ...

2019 * Lear DeBessonet, Col 2002 - Director of Public Works at the Public Theatre in New York City. *

Chad Harbach Chad Harbach (born 1975) is an American writer. An editor at the journal '' n + 1'', he is the author of the 2011 novel '' The Art of Fielding''. Early life and education Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his ...

MFA 2004 - novelist, author of ''

The Art of Fielding ''The Art of Fielding'' is a 2011 novel by American author Chad Harbach. It centers on the fortunes of shortstop Henry Skrimshander and his career playing college baseball with the fictional Westish College Harpooners. The novel was nominated for ...

'' * Ron Suskind, Col 1981 - novelist, 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing *

Tia Williams Tia Williams is an American novelist and editor. She has published six books and is best known for ''The Accidental Diva'' (2004), ''The Perfect Find'' (2016), and ''Seven Days in June'' (2021). She is also a long-time fashion editor and the curren ...

, Col 1997 - novelist, editor * Emma Lord, Col 2012 - author *

Henry S. Taylor Henry Splawn Taylor (born June 21, 1942) is an American poet, author of more than 15 books of poems, translation, and nonfiction, and winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, ...

, Col 1964 - novelist, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ''The Flying Change'' *

Eleanor Henderson Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introd ...

MFA 2005 - novelist, author of ''

Ten Thousand Saints ''Ten Thousand Saints'' is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. It is based on the novel of the same name by Eleanor Henderson. The film stars Asa Butterfield as Jude Keffy-Horn, the protagon ...

'', assistant professor at

Ithaca College Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca, New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca (which is separate from the town), Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and go ...

David Baldacci David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. Biography Early life and education David Baldacci was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. H ...

, Law 1986 – novelist '' Memory Man'', ''

The Camel Club The Camel Club is a group of fictional characters created by American novelist David Baldacci. They are the protagonists of five of his novels: ''The Camel Club'', ''The Collectors'', ''Stone Cold'', ''Divine Justice'', and '' Hell's Corner''. ...

'', '' Total Control'' *

Jeb Livingood Jeb Livingood is an American essayist, short story writer, editor, and academic. Life He graduated from University of Virginia, American University, George Mason University, and University of Virginia, with an M.F.A. in 2000. He exhibited at th ...

, MFA 2000 - Poet *

Donald J. Boudreaux Donald Joseph Boudreaux (born September 10, 1958) is an American economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Ea ...

, Law 1992 – economist, professor *

Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his ...

(attended) – novelist, travel writer, composer, author of '' The Sheltering Sky'', ''

Up Above the World Up Above the World is a novel by Paul Bowles first published in 1966 by Simon and Schuster and in Great Britain by Peter Owen Publishers in 1967. ''Up Above the World'' was the last of Bowles’s four novels. Plot summary In the middle of th ...

'' *

Charles Augustus Briggs Charles Augustus Briggs (January 15, 1841 – June 8, 1913), American Presbyterian (and later Episcopalian) scholar and theologian, was born in New York City, the son of Alanson Briggs and Sarah Mead Berrian. He was excommunicated from the Presby ...

, Col 1860 – Hebrew scholar and theologian * Erskine Caldwell, attended 1923–1926 – novelist, author of ''

Tobacco Road Tobacco Road may refer to: Prose * ''Tobacco Road'' (novel) (1932), by Erskine Caldwell ** ''Tobacco Road'' (play) (1933), by Jack Kirkland ** ''Tobacco Road'' (film) (1941), directed by John Ford Music * "Tobacco Road" (song) (1960s), by John D. ...

'' *

John T. Casteen III John Thomas Casteen III (born December 11, 1943, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American educator. He served as president of the University of Connecticut from 1985 to 1990 and as Professor of English and president of the University of Virginia f ...

, Col 1965, Grad 1970 – President of the

John R. Conniff John Robinson Conniff, Sr. (January 20, 1874 – January 20, 1957) was an educator from New Orleans, Louisiana, who served from 1926 to 1928 as the seventh president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in North Louisia ...

, New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator; president of

Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activ ...

, 1926–1928; attended University of Louisiana c. 1895 *

Philip F. Deaver Philip F. Deaver (1946–2018) was an American writer and poet from Tuscola, Illinois. His work appeared in literary magazines, including The New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Frostproof Review, the Florida Review, Poetry Miscellany and ...

, Grad 1978, writer and poet * Evan Thomas, Law 1977 - author, journalist, historian, editor at

Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis (businessman), Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print m ...

, author of ''

The Wise Men (book) ''The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made'' is a non-fiction book authored by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1986, it describes the actions of a group of U.S. federal government officials and members ...

'' *

Philip K. Howard Philip King Howard (born October 24, 1948) is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. He started Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organizatio ...

, Law 1974 - writer, author of ''Life without Lawyers'' *

Heather Derr-Smith Heathen (Heather Derr-Smith) (born 1971) is an American poet. Their fourth book, ''Thrust'', won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and was published by Persea Books in 2017. Derr's fifth book, Outskirts is forthcoming from University ...

, Col 1995 – poet *

Tyler Drumheller Tyler Scott Drumheller (April 12, 1952 – August 2, 2015) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who served as chief of the European division for clandestine operations in the Directorate of Operations from 2001 until he ...

, Col 1974 – pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author of ''On the Brink'' *

Linda Fairstein Linda Fairstein (born May 5, 1947) is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She was the head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's offic ...

, Law 1972 – prosecutor of sex crimes in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

and best-selling author of crime novels *

Jerry Falwell Jr. Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr. (; born June 17, 1962) is an American attorney, former academic administrator, and prominent evangelical. Starting with his 2007 appointment upon the death of his father, televangelist and conservative activist Jerry Falw ...

, Law 1987 – Chancellor and President,

Liberty University Liberty University (LU) is a private Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty i ...

* Richard Foerster, A&S 1972 – poet *

Joanne B. Freeman Joanne B. Freeman (born April 27, 1962) is a U.S. historian and tenured Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Having researched Alexander Hamilton both independently and collaboratively with mentors and peers for more tha ...

– historian * William Fuller, Ph.D. 1983, poet; senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of

Northern Trust Corporation Northern Trust Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Chicago that caters to corporations, institutional investors, and ultra high net worth individuals. Northern Trust is one of the largest banking institutions in the Uni ...

* Elizabeth Garrett, Law 1988 – President of

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

; former provost of the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

Emily Giffin Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her notable works include '' Something Borrowed'', ''Heart of the Matter'' and ''The One and Only''. Early life Emily Giffin ...

, Law 1997 –

chick lit Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at younger women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers while writers and critics have rejected its inherent sexism. Novels id ...

author *

Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...

, Col 1922 – a major figure of French literature of the 20th century *

Roger Harold Hull Roger Harold Hull (born June 18, 1942) is the founder, chairman, and president of the Help Yourself Win Foundation. The foundation is the result of the consolidation of the Help Yourself and Schenectady-Win foundations. Prior to creating the Help ...

, Law 1974 – President of

Beloit College Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin. Founded in 1846, when Wisconsin was still a territory, it is the state's oldest continuously operated college. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and has ...

and

Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...

Thomas M. Humphrey Thomas MacGillivray Humphrey (born 1935) is an American economist. Until 2005 he was a research advisor and senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and editor of the Bank's flagship publication, the ''E ...

– economist *

Edward P. Jones Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel ''The Known World'' received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award. Biography Edward Paul Jones was born ...

, Grad 1981 – author, winner of 2004

for fiction, MacArthur Fellow * Jack Temple Kirby – historian of the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book ''Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South'' *

Gloria Cordes Larson Gloria Cordes Larson is a prominent lawyer, public policy expert, and business leader. Larson was named president of Bentley University in 2007 and served in that role until June 2018. She was the seventh president of Bentley and the first woman ...

, Law 1976 – President of Bentley University * Helen Matthews Lewis, Master's of Sociology 1949 – sociologist, historian, and activist *

Edgar Odell Lovett Edgar Odell Lovett (April 14, 1871 – August 13, 1957) was an American educator and education administrator. He was the first president of Rice Institute (now Rice University) in Houston, Texas. Lovett was recommended to the post by Woodr ...

, Grad 1895 – mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured President of

M. Elizabeth Magill Mary Elizabeth Magill (born 1965) is the 9th president of the University of Pennsylvania, a position she has held since July 1, 2022. She was the provost of the University of Virginia and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law fr ...

, Law 1995 – Dean of Stanford Law School *

J. Hillis Miller Sr. J. Hillis Miller Sr. (August 29, 1899 – November 14, 1953) was an American university professor, education administrator and university president. Miller was a native of Virginia, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees before emb ...

, Grad 1928 – fourth President of the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

(1947–1953) *

Robert Miskimon Robert Miskimon (born 1943) is an author, journalist and poet whose fiction has received favorable reviews in ''The Midwest Book Review'', the ''Monterey Peninsula Herald'' and the ''San Francisco Review of Books''. His published fiction includes ' ...

(attended) – novelist, journalist, poet *

Blake Morant Blake D. Morant is an American legal educator and professor of law at George Washington University Law School, where he was the Dean in 2014-2019. History Morant received a bachelors (BA) degree in 1975 and juris doctor (JD) degree in 1978 fro ...

, Col 1975, Law 1978 – Dean of

George Washington University Law School The George Washington University Law School (GW Law) is the law school of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Established in 1865, GW Law is the oldest top law school in the national capital. GW Law offers the largest range of cou ...

Arthur D. Morse Arthur David Morse (December 27, 1920 – June 1, 1971) was an American author and television producer for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and a World War II historian. As a journalist, he worked both in print and television and concerned ...

- print and television journalist, and author of ''While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy'' *

Bret Myers Bret Myers (born April 1, 1980) is an American former soccer player and current professor. Myers played with the Williamsburg Wizards youth travel team, with the University of Richmond, and with the Richmond Kickers. He won a gold medal with Te ...

(born 1980) - soccer player and professor *

David Nolan David Nolan may refer to: * David Nolan (politician) (1943–2010), co-founder of the United States Libertarian Party * David Nolan (American author) David Nolan is an American author, civil rights activist, and historian. Biography Nolan was b ...

, Col 1967 – author and historian *

Breece D'J Pancake Breece D'J Pancake (b. Breece Dexter Pancake, June 29, 1952 – April 8, 1979) was an American short story writer. He is said to be "one of the greatest authors you've never heard of" according to an article on his work in '' Study Breaks''. ...

(attended) – short-story writer *

Marvin Banks Perry Jr. Marvin Banks Perry Jr. (September 29, 1918 – December 12, 1994) was an American academic and college administrator who served as president of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College. He also was a professor of English literature, English at Washi ...

, 1940 – President of Goucher College and

Agnes Scott College Agnes Scott College is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia. The college enrolls approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The college is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and is considered one of the ...

Harrison Randolph Harrison Randolph (December 8, 1871 – 1954) was the 13th President and professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston from 1897 to 1945. Randolph was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to John Feild Randolph and Virginia Dashiell Randolph, ...

, Grad 1892 – thirteenth President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945) *

W. Taylor Reveley, III Walter Taylor Reveley III (born January 6, 1943) is an American legal scholar and former lawyer. He served as the twenty-seventh president of the College of William & Mary.

, Law 1968 – President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School *

William Craig Rice William Craig Rice (May 4, 1955 – June 20, 2016) was an American educator. He was the Director of the Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Career Rice was born in 1955 in Washington, D.C. He received his ...

, Col 1975 – president of Shimer College * Paul Craig Roberts, economist and political pundit; Undersecretary of the Treasury *

Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic phi ...

, Longtime professor of Humanities among the most widely discussed and controversial contemporary philosophers author of Achieving our Country * Alex Sanders, Law 1990 – nineteenth President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001) * Will Shortz, Law – editor of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' crossword puzzle * Brooks D. Simpson, Col 1979 – historian *

Robert Sitkoff Robert H. Sitkoff (born 1974) is the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law and the John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he specializes in trusts and estates. He previously served as professor of law at New York University Sch ...

, Grad 1996 – professor at

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

and scholar on trusts and estates * Valerie Smith, Grad 1978 – President,

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

; former Dean of the college,

Jens Söring Jens Söring, usually rendered in English as Jens Soering, (born 1 August 1966, in Bangkok, Thailand) is a German who, in 1990, was convicted in Virginia, United States of America of murdering the parents of his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Haysom. ...

– honor student, autobiographer and writer of social issues, convicted murderer without parole * William Force Stead, Col 1905 – diplomat and poet *

Darcey Steinke Darcey Steinke (born April 25, 1962) is an American author and educator. She has written five novels: ''Up Through the Water,'' ''Suicide Blonde,'' ''Jesus Saves,'' and ''Milk,'' ''Easter Everywhere,'' and ''Sister Golden Hair''. Steinke has als ...

, MFA – author *

William G. Thomas III William G. Thomas III (born 1964) is an American historian. He is a Professor of History and the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research focuses on the Southeastern United States, ...

PhD – history professor at the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...

, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. *

Richard E. Wagner Richard Edward Wagner (born April 28, 1941) is an American economist. He is professor of economics at George Mason University. He works primarily in the fields of public finance and public choice. Wagner received his doctorate in economics from ...

, 1966 – economist

Media

Margaret Brennan preparing for a CBS News report in August of 2017

Robert Aldrich Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His notable credits include '' Vera Cruz'' (1954), ''Kiss Me Deadly'' (1955), ''The Big Knife'' (1955), '' Autumn L ...

(attended) – film director, writer, and producer of ''

The Dirty Dozen ''The Dirty Dozen'' is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph M ...

'' *

Krystal Ball Krystal Marie Ball (born November 24, 1981) is an American political commentator and media host. She was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, a regular contributor to ''The Huffington Post'' and a co-host of ...

, Col 2003 – anchor on

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

's '' The Cycle'' *

Meredith Kopit Levien Meredith Kopit Levien (born 1970/1971) is an American media executive who is the chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. Early life and education Meredith Kopit was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Carole and Marvin ...

Col 1993 - President and Chief Executive Officer of

Company * Fred Barnes, Col 1965 – editor, ''

The Weekly Standard ''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "red ...

'' *

John Brenkus John Brenkus (born 1971) is an American producer, director, and television personality. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of BASE Productions, a production company that specializes in creating reality television programs for channels such as Spike, ...

, Col 1993 – host,

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

's ''

Sports Science Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sport and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally inc ...

'' *

Margaret Brennan Margaret Brennan (born March 26, 1980) is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C. The current moderator of '' Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan'' on CBS News, she is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for ''CBS Evening News'', and t ...

, Col 2002 – Bloomberg TV anchor, ''In Business with Margaret Brennan'' *

Coran Capshaw Robert Coran Capshaw is an American music industry executive and entrepreneur. He is the manager of Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Lady A, Trey Anastasio and Chris Stapleton among others. Capshaw founded Red Light Management and co-founded ATO Recor ...

, Col 1983 – founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and

Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys started composing songs when she was 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Col ...

* Katie Couric, Col 1979 – anchor of '' CBS Evening News''; former host of NBC's '' The Today Show'' *

Virginius Dabney Virginius Dabney (February 8, 1901 – December 28, 1995) was an American teacher, journalist, and writer, who edited the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch ''from 1936 to 1969 and wrote several historical books. Dabney won the Pulitzer Prize for edito ...

, Col 1921 – editor of ''Richmond Times Dispatch'', author, Pulitzer Prize winner (editorial writing) *

Lane DeGregory Lane DeGregory is an American journalist who works for the ''Tampa Bay Times''—St. Petersburg Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2009, recognizing "The Girl In the Window" (August 3, 2008)—"her moving, richly detailed stor ...

, Col 1989, Grad 1995 –

–winning journalist *

Deidre Downs Deidre Downs Gunn (born July 7, 1980) is an American physician and former beauty pageant titleholder. Downs was Miss Alabama 2004 and later was crowned Miss America 2005. Education After graduating from Pelham High School in 1998, Downs attended ...

(attended) –

Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...

2005 *

Kimberly Dozier Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966) is a contributing writer to ''The Daily Beast'' and a contributor to CNN. She was previously a correspondent for the Associated Press, covering intelligence and counterterrorism, and prior to that, a CBS News co ...

, 1993 – reporter for ''

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...

'' *

Thomas Frank Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, Col 1987 – founder and editor, '' The Baffler'' *

Bob Gazzale Bob Gazzale is an American film historian and television producer. He became the American Film Institute's third president and CEO in November 2007. Gazzale is from California. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he helped to l ...

, Col 1987 – President,

American Film Institute The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leade ...

* Richard Glatzer, Grad 1975 – film director, producer, writer, ''

Still Alice A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor. A still uses the same concepts as a basic distillation apparatus, but on a much larger scale. Stills have been used ...

'', '' The Fluffer'', and ''

Quinceañera A (also , , , and ) is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has pre-Columbian roots in Mexico (Aztecs) and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin America. The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a (; gender (linguistics), ...

'' * W. Douglas Gordon – editor ''Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch'' and ''

Richmond Times-Dispatch The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' (''RTD'' or ''TD'' for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. Circulation The ''Times-Dispatc ...

'' *

David M. Granger David M. Granger is an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of ''Esquire'' Magazine from June 1997 until March 2016. Granger is a literary agent and media consultant working with Aevitas Creative Management. Education Granger has a Master ...

, Grad 1981 – editor-In-Chief, ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' * Bernard Holland – former chief music critic for ''

'' * Anushay Hossain – columnist * Brit Hume, Col 1965 – managing editor, Fox News * Laura Ingraham, Law 1991 – conservative talk show host * Mark Johnson (producer), Mark Johnson, Col 1971 – film producer, ''Rain Man'', ''Good Morning, Vietnam'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia''; Academy Award recipient * Robert Llewellyn (photographer), Robert Llewellyn, photographer, Engineering 1964–1968 * Rich Lowry, Col 1990 – editor-In-Chief, ''National Review'' * Jessica Lynch (Miss New York), Jessica Lynch, Col 2000 – Miss New York 2003 * Tyler Mathisen, Col 1976 – co-anchor, ''Power Lunch''; Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC * Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, Col – ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice'' * Andrew Scheinman, Law 1973 – TV producer, ''Seinfeld''; Emmy Award recipient * Tom Shadyac, Col 1981 – director, ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''Patch Adams (film), Patch Adams'', ''Bruce Almighty'' * Leigh-Taylor Smith, Col 2007 – Miss New York 2009 * Melissa Stark, Col 1995 – reporter,

and American Broadcasting Company, ABC's ''Monday Night Football'' * Ron Suskind, Col 1981 – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author * Michael Vitez, Col 1979 – staff writer, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', Pulitzer Prize winner * Paul Junger Witt, Col 1963 – film producer, ''Dead Poets Society'', ''Three Kings (1999 film), Three Kings'' and ''Insomnia (2002 film), Insomnia''; TV producer, ''The Golden Girls'', ''The Partridge Family'', ''Soap (TV series), Soap'', ''Benson (TV series), Benson'', and ''Blossom (TV series), Blossom''; Emmy Award recipient * Vern Yip, Col 1990 – interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality

Actors, musicians, and artists

* Will Anderson (singer), Will Anderson, lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute (band), Parachute * David Berman (musician), David Berman, Col – lead singer of indie-rock band Silver Jews * Edward Brophy, Col – actor * Tom Cora, Col – avant-garde cellist and composer * Sarah Drew, Col 2002 – actress, ''Grey's Anatomy'' * Tina Fey, Col 1992 – creator, writer, producer and actress, ''30 Rock''; former head writer, actress, ''Saturday Night Live'' * Schuyler Fisk, Col 2004 – singer/songwriter * PES (director), Col 1995 - director, filmmaker, director of Oscar nominated short film ''Fresh Guacamole'' * Jason George, Col 1994 – actor * Brennan Gilmore, Col 2001 – bluegrass musician; former U.S. diplomat; political activist * Ann Hould-Ward, Grad 1978 – Broadway costume designer, Tony Award recipient * Jen Lilley, Col 2007 – actress, ''General Hospital'', ''Days of Our Lives'', ''The Artist (film), The Artist'' * Rod MacDonald, Col 1970 – singer/songwriter * Stephen Malkmus, Col 1988 – lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement (band), Pavement * Benjamin McKenzie, Col 2001 – actor, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's ''The O.C.'' * Georgia O'Keeffe (attended) – painter * Nelson Saiers, Col 1997, Grad 1998 – artist and hedge fund manager * Teddy Sears, Col 1999 – actor, ''Masters of Sex'' * Skipp Sudduth, Grad 1983 – actor * Boyd Tinsley, violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave Matthews Band * Sean Patrick Thomas, Col 1993 – actor * Stan Winston, Col 1968 – special effects expert, four-time Academy Award recipient * Dylan Walsh, Col 1986 – actor, ''Nip/Tuck'' * Sasheer Zamata, Col 2008 – actor, ''Saturday Night Live''

Athletics

* Val Ackerman, Col 1981 – founder and former president of Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference * Jeff Agoos (born 1968) - Swiss-born American soccer defender * Bruce Arena – coached the Virginia Cavaliers to 5 NCAA men's soccer championships; head coach of US national men's soccer team; professional soccer coach * Cory Alexander – former NBA player, 29th pick in the 1995 NBA draft * Darion Atkins – basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Ronde Barber, Comm 1996 – former cornerback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers * Tiki Barber, Comm 1997 – former running back, New York Giants; current sportscaster * Morgan Brian 2014 – member of the US Women's National Soccer Team * Malcolm Brogdon 2016 – guard, Milwaukee Bucks; #15 jersey retired by UVA * Heather Burge – former WNBA player * Heidi Burge, Col 1993 – former WNBA player * Chris Canty (defensive lineman), Chris Canty – former NFL defensive end * Rick Carlisle, Col 1984 – former National Basketball Association, NBA player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks * John Choma (offensive lineman), John Choma – retired National Football League, NFL Lineman (American football), offensive linemen, San Francisco 49ers * Casey Crawford (American football), Casey Crawford – former NFL tight end * Mike Cubbage – former MLB third baseman and manager * Virginius Dabney (American football), Virginius Dabney – running back * Chris Dey, Col 1989 – President, New York Islanders (NHL) * Somdev Devvarman, Col 2008 – tennis professional; career high world ranking of 62 * Bill Dudley, Educ 1942 – NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame player * Mamadi Diakite, 2020 – NBA player * Jeffrey Eggleston, 2007 – Long-distance track event, long-distance runner * Carlton Elliott – defensive end, Green Bay Packers * Alecko Eskandarian, Col (attended) – Major League Soccer 2003 MLS SuperDraft, #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and United States men's national soccer team, U.S. national team * Paul Ereng, Col 1993 – gold medalist in 800 meters at 1988 Summer Olympics * D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Col 2006 – former offensive tackle, New York Jets * Mustapha Farrakhan Jr. – guard for the Bakersfield Jam * Tim Finchem, Law 1973 – Commissioner of the PGA Tour * Jake Gelof (born 2002) - baseball third baseman * Zack Gelof (born 1999) - American-Israeli third baseman in the Oakland Athletics organization * Conor Gill, Col 2002 – won the 2002 Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award; 2004 Major League Lacrosse, MLL MVP * Robert Kent Gooch – quarterback * Jim Grobe, 1975, 1978 – current head coach of Wake Forest Demon Deacons, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team * Al Groh, Comm 1967 – former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia Cavaliers football, Virginia football team * Margaret Groos – winner of th
1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon
and 1988 U.S. Olympic team member; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters. * Kyle Guy, NBA player for Sacramento Kings * Brandon Guyer – former outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays * Darryl Hammond, Col 1988 – Arena Football League (1987–2008), Arena Football League career tackles leader * John Harkes – former soccer player and captain of United States men's national soccer team, U.S. national team * Joe Harris (basketball), Joe Harris 2014 – guard, Brooklyn Nets *DeAndre Hunter, NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks * Adam Haseley – baseball player for the Chicago White Sox * Ty Jerome, NBA player for the Phoenix Suns * Mike Jones (wrestler), Mike Jones – professional wrestler; under the names Virgil, Vincent, and Curly Moe * Thomas Jones (American football), Thomas Jones – running back, Kansas City Chiefs * Henry Jordan – retired NFL Lineman (American football), defensive lineman, Pro Football Hall of Fame * Melanie Kok – silver medalist in rowing at 2008 Summer Olympics * Joe Koshansky – former first baseman for the Colorado Rockies * Bowie Kuhn, Law 1950 - former Commissioner of Baseball, Commissioner of Major League Baseball * Braxton Key – professional basketball player * Jeff Lamp – former NBA player * Noel LaMontagne – retired NFL Lineman (American football), offensive lineman, Cleveland Browns * Sylven Landesberg - American-Israeli basketball shooting guard (Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv) * Chris Long - defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles * Javier López (baseball), Javier López – former relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants * John Loyd – tackle * Wali Lundy – running back, Houston Texans * Eugene Mayer, Buck Mayer – running back * Tom McKnight, Com 1976 – Champions Tour golfer * Tony Meola, Col 1989 – Major League Soccer and FIFA World Cup, World Cup goalkeeper *Jerome Meyinsse, 2010 - basketball center in the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Heath Miller, Col 2004 – tight end, Pittsburgh Steelers * Eugene Monroe, Col 2008 – offensive tackle, Jacksonville Jaguars * Trey Murphy III – NBA player * Shawn Moore - former NFL and CFL player, former All-American at UVA * Herman Moore, Col 1991 – NFL former record-holder for catches in a season * Ed Moses (swimmer), Ed Moses, Educ 2004 – Olympic gold medalist in swimming * Ben Olsen (attended) – international Association football, soccer player; former player and current coach of D.C. United *London Perrantes (born 1994) - basketball player for Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Premier League * John Phillips (American football), John Phillips – NFL tight end * Shamek Pietucha, Col 1999 – Olympic swimmer * Chris Rotelli, 2003 – professional lacrosse player * John Beverly Pollard – quarterback * Sonny Randle, 1958 – football, NFL wide receiver * Claudio Reyna (attended) – international Association football, soccer player; former captain of United States men's national soccer team, U.S. national team * LaRoy Reynolds – middle linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons * Mark Reynolds (baseball), Mark Reynolds – former third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals * Eppa Rixey, Col 1912 – National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher *Jake Rozhansky (born 1996) - American-Israeli soccer player * Ralph Sampson, Col 1983 – NBA 1983 NBA Draft, #1 overall draft pick, NBA All-Star Game, All-Star center with Houston Rockets and List of players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame * Becky Sauerbrunn - defender for the Utah Royals and US women's national team * Matt Schaub, Col 2003 – quarterback, Houston Texans * Michael Schwimer, 2008 – relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies * Mike Scott (basketball), Mike Scott – NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks * Don Shula – head coach of the History of the Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins; career wins leader among NFL coaches; defensive backs coach for the 1958 Virginia Cavaliers football team * Chris Slade (American football), Chris Slade, Col 1993 – defensive end / linebacker NFL All Pro New England Patriots * Michael Slive, Law 1965 – former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) * Devin Smith (basketball), Devin Smith - professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv * Emily Sonnett, Col 2015 – defender for the Portland Thorns and US women's national team * Dawn Staley, Col 1992 – Olympic gold medalist, carried U.S. flag at opening ceremonies of 2004 Summer Olympics * Chris Taylor (baseball), Chris Taylor – shortstop/outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers * Bradley Walker – former referee * DeMya Walker, Col 1999 – WNBA player * Lesley Lehane, Lesley Welch Lehane – winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country, 1982 * George Welsh (American football), George Welsh – former head football coach * Ralph C. Wilson Jr. – founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium * Monica Wright, Col 2010 – WNBA player, currently UVa's all-time career leader in points for women * Ryan Zimmerman, Col 2005 – former third baseman for the Washington Nationals

Military

* :es:Fernando Bolivar, Fernando Bolivar – Venezuelan military, nephew of General Simon Bolivar * Philip St. George Cocke, 1828, Brigadier General (CSA), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. * Robert Magnus, Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC, Col 1969 – Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps * John Morgan (admiral), VADM John Morgan, USN, Col 1972 – former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy * John Singleton Mosby, was a Confederate States Army, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as ''Mosby's Rangers''. * John B. Magruder, A Confederate States Army, Confederate Army general during the Civil War * Lt. Gen. Charles Pede, USA, Col 1984, Law 1987 - Judge Advocate General of the United States Army *William Pegram, was a artillery officer in Robert E. Lee's Confederate States Army, Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. *Carnot Posey, was a planter and lawyer, and a Confederate States Army, Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was transported to University of Virginia, where he had gone to law school. Later being buried at the school.

Religion

* Lloyd Rutherford Craighill – second Bishop of Anking, China * Carl P. Daw Jr. – Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada * Collins Denny (1889–1891) – Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1910–1939) * David Ellenson – professor, President Emeritus and Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion * James Addison Ingle – first Bishop of the Missionary District of Hankow, China * J. William Jones –

chaplain, campus minister, Christian author

Environmentalism

* Michael P. Branch – Ecocriticism, ecocritic, writer, activist * Gary L. Francione, M.A. and J.D. – legal theorist, law professor, and animal rights/vegan activist * Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Law 1982 – Chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance; co-host of ''Ring of Fire (radio program), Ring of Fire''; Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper * William A. Welch – engineer and environmentalist who had a major impact on the state and national park systems of the United States

Other

*Jason Kessler, neo-Nazi, white supremacist. *Richard B. Spencer, Col 2001 – Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, President and director of the National Policy Institute *Otto Warmbier, imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. Released 2017 in a vegetative state and died soon afterward.

Fictional

* Freedom (Franzen novel), Joey Berglund, character in ''Freedom (Franzen novel), Freedom'' by Jonathan Franzen * Death of a Salesman, Biff Loman, character in ''Death of a Salesman'' by Arthur Miller"came back after that month and he took his sneakers—remember those sneakers with ‘University of Virginia’ printed on them? He was so proud of those, wore them every day. And he took them down in the cellar, and burned them up in the furnace." * Elizabeth McCord (character), Elizabeth McCord, portrayed by Téa Leoni, and List of Madam Secretary characters, Henry McCord, portrayed by Tim Daly, on ''Madam Secretary (TV series), Madam Secretary'' * Clarice Starling, protagonist of the novels ''The Silence of the Lambs (novel), The Silence of the Lambs'' and ''Hannibal (Harris novel), Hannibal'' by Thomas Harris, and the film adaptations ''The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Silence of the Lambs'', portrayed by Jodie Foster, and ''Hannibal (2001 film), Hannibal'', portrayed by Julianne Moore * List of The West Wing characters, Gina Toscano, portrayed by Jorja Fox, on ''The West Wing''

Enslaved laborers

* Isabella and William D. Gibbons * Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

References

External links

* {{Authority control Lists of people by university or college in Virginia, University of Virginia University of Virginia people, *