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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Sam Nunn - Former United States Senator from Georgia

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Bob Varsha - Auto racing broadcaster, currently for SPEED Channel

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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.