List of persons associated with Emory University
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This is a list of influential and newsworthy people affiliated with Emory University, a private university in DeKalb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. The list includes professors, staff, graduates, and former students belonging to one of Emory's two undergraduate or seven graduate schools. This is not a complete list, but a best effort.
Contents: | Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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- Alan Abramowitz - Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science
[edit] B
- Sante Uberto Barbieri - Bishop of The Methodist Church in Latin America
- Alben W. Barkley - 35th United States Vice President
- Rowland Barnes - Former Atlanta Superior Court Judge
- Sanford Bishop - United States Representative from Georgia
- Merle Black - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Politics and Government
- David Bray - IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000-2005
- David Brinkley - Journalist and television newscaster
- Courtney Brown - Associate Professor of political science and remote viewing practitioner
- Peter Buck - Lead guitarist, R.E.M. (dropped out)
[edit] C
- Ely Callaway - founder of Callaway Golf
- Jimmy Carter - former President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor since 1982
- Sonny Carter - Astronaut, physician, and professional soccer player
- Kathy Castor - U.S. Congresswoman (D-FL)
- Max Cleland - Former United States Senator from Georgia
- John B. Cobb - Process theologian
- Kenneth Cole - Clothing designer
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[edit] E
- Tinsley Ellis - Blues singer
- Richard Ellmann - late Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar
[edit] F
- James W. Fowler - Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development
- Tillie K. Fowler - Former United States Representative from Florida
[edit] G
- Newt Gingrich - Former United States Speaker of the House
- Joel Godard - Television announcer
- Sanjay Gupta - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory; CNN Medical Correspondent
[edit] H
- Ernie Harwell - Baseball broadcaster
- C. Robert Henrikson - CEO, Metlife
- Carl Hiaasen - Author (attended the college for two years, then transferred to the University of Florida)
- Spessard Holland - Former Governor of and US senator from Florida
- J. Willis Hurst - former chairman of the Department of Medicine, author, and personal cardiologist to President Lyndon Johnson
[edit] J
- Narasimhan Jegadeesh - Dean's Distinguished University Chair in Finance at the Goizueta Business School
- Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. - CEO, Publix
- Bobby Jones - Golfer and founder of The Masters Tournament
[edit] K
- Will Kirby - Winner of the American reality television show Big Brother 2
- Harvey Klehr - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History
- Melvin Konner - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Benn Konsynski - George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis at the Goizueta Business School
[edit] L
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II) - Former United States Supreme Court Justice and Senator from Kentucky
- Dennis C. Liotta - Professor of Chemistry
- Deborah Lipstadt - Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1994)
- Jean-François Lyotard - late Robert Woodruff Professor and prominent French philosopher
[edit] M
- Dumas Malone - Pulitzer Prize winning historian, former head of Harvard University Press
- Christopher McCandless - Subject of "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
- Keiji Morokuma - William Henry Emerson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Director of the Emerson Center
[edit] N
- Sam Nunn - Former United States Senator from Georgia
[edit] R
- Amy Ray - Singer, the Indigo Girls
- Ralph E. Reed, Jr. - Former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition
- Thomas M. Rivers - Famous virologist, headed the National Science Foundation's search for a polio vaccine
- Harriet Robinson - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Director, Microbiology and Immunology at Yerkes Primate Center
- Barbara Rothbaum - psychologist
- Paul Rubin - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law
- Salman Rushdie - author and literary scholar
- Kai Ryssdal - Host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations affiliated with American Public Media
[edit] S
- Don Saliers - William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship
- Emily Saliers - Singer, the Indigo Girls
- Jag Sheth - Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School
- Andy Slater - President and CEO, Capitol Records
- Jack Stahl - President and CEO, Revlon
- Kenneth Stein - William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies
- Vaidy Sunderam - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Computer Science
[edit] T
- Edward L. Thomas - Confederate general during the American Civil War
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[edit] V
- Bob Varsha - Auto racing broadcaster, currently for SPEED Channel
[edit] W
- Frans de Waal - Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- James W. Wagner - University President, 2003-present
- Robert Wexler - Congressman from Florida (attended the college for two years, then transferred to the University of Florida)
- Robert W. Woodruff - Former President of the Coca-Cola Company (left to work at Coca-Cola after two semesters)
- C. Vann Woodward - Pulitzer Prize winning historian
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[edit] References
- "Emory University," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 1, 2006: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Gleason, Jan. "Emory ranked 9th-best national university by U.S. News & World Report magazine" in Emory Report (Atlanta: Emory Report, 1997), Volume 50 No. 1.
- Hauk, Gary S. A Legacy of Heart and Mind : Emory since 1836 (Atlanta: Emory University, developed and produced by Bookhouse Group, Inc., 1999).
- Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University," in Emory College Catalog 2003-2005 (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9-15.