List of University of Virginia people

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This page is a partial list of distinguished alumni of the University of Virginia.

1 Rectors and members of the Board of Visitors
2 Alumni
3 Links

[edit] Rectors and members of the Board of Visitors

Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809)
James Madison - 4th President of the United States (1809–1817)
James Monroe - 5th President of the United States (1817–1825)
Andrew Stevenson - 15th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1827–1833)

[edit] Alumni

Robert Mueller, Law 1973 - Director of the FBI

[edit] Military

Brig. Gen. John B. Copenhaver, USAF, Col 1926 - former Command Surgeon, Headquarters Alaskan Air Command
Maj. Gen. William J. Crumm, USAF, Col 1941 - former Deputy Joint Chief of Staff, Atomic Operations Division
Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF, Col 1974, Engr 1976 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Intelligence
Maj. Gen. Andrew M. Egeland Jr., USAF, Col 1965, Law 1968 - former Deputy Staff Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force
Brig. Gen William Lafayette Fagg, USAF, Law 1941 - former Executive Officer, Staff Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force
Lt. Gen. Ralph E. Havens, USAF, Col 1960 - former Commander, Air University
Maj. Gen. Donald W. Henderson, USAF, Engr 1960 - Commander, Space and Missile Test Organization
Brig. Gen. William Preston Nuckols, USAF, Col 1927 - Commander, 33rd Continental Air Defense Division
Brig. Gen. Samuel M. Thomasson Jr, USAF, Law 1947 - former Staff Judge Advocate General, Headquarters Air Force Systems Command
Brig. Gen. Felix J. Zaniewski, USAF, Law 1948 - former Staff Judge Advocate General for Strategic Air Command

[edit] Business

Alan Lafley, GSAS Dropout - CEO, Chairman of the Board, Procter & Gamble Co.
Alfred Berkeley, Col 1966 - President, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
Shelby Bonnie, Com 1986 - CEO, co-founder, CNET Inc.
Charles L. Brown, Engr 1943 - Chairman and CEO, AT&T Corporation
Algernon S. Buford, Law 1850 - President, Richmond and Danville Railroad
W. Graham Claytor Jr., Col 1933 - President, Southern Railway and Amtrak; and U.S. Secretary of the Navy
Craig Cook-Stevenson, Com 2005 - Chief Technology Strategist, JPMorgan and founder of Stevenson Securities
George David, Darden 1967 - Chairman & CEO, United Technologies Corporation
Russell Herron, Engr 1979 - Author, co-founder of GeoQuest Systems
Paul Tudor Jones, Col 1976 - President & Founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and the Robin Hood Foundation
Tim Koogle, Engr 1973 - Vice Chairman and former CEO, Yahoo! Inc.
Halsey Minor, Col 1987 - Co-founder and former CEO, CNET Inc.
William N. Page (attended) - Civil Engineer, co-founder of the Virginian Railway
Charles T. Pepper, Med 1855 - The original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company
Steven Reinemund, Darden 1978 - Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
Rebecca W. Rimel, Nurs 1973 - President, Pew Charitable Trusts
Sheridan G. Snyder, OBE, Col 1958 - Founder, Genzyme Corp., Instapak (Sealed Air Corp), Upstate Inc., Biocatalyst International
Robert R. Young (attended) - Chairman of the Board, C&O Railroad
Mark S. Frey, Comm 1975 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Fairchild Semiconductor

William A. Hawkins, Darden 1982 - CEO, Medtronic Corp.

[edit] Science and technology

John Backus (attended) - Inventor of first high-level programming language, FORTRAN
Daniel Barringer, Grad 1888 - Proved the existence of meteorites on Earth (Barringer Meteorite Crater)
Jesse Beams, Grad 1926 - One of 5 primary physicists selected for Manhattan Project, pioneer of ultracentrifuge
Francis Collins, Col 1970 - Director, Human Genome Project
Heber Doust Curtis, Grad 1902 — Astronomer participated in the "Great Debate" with Harlow Shapley, 1920
Janet Akyüz Mattei, Grad 1972 - Astronomer; Director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Charles Pollard Olivier, Grad 1911 — Astronomer; Founder, American Meteor Society
Vivian Pinn, Med 1967 - Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health
Walter Reed, Med 1869 - Discovered transmission of yellow fever
Alexander N. Vyssotsky, Grad 1927 - Astronomer; Cataloged Milky Way M dwarf stars
Ralph Elmer Wilson, Grad 1910 — Astronomer; Wilson crater on the Moon was co-named after him.
Carl A. Wirtanen, Grad 1939 - Astronomer; Discovered a number of asteroids and comets
William Wulf, Grad 1966 - Designer of BLISS programming language
Hugh H. Young, Clas 1889, Med 1891 - Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon

Alfred G. Gilman, Faculty 1971-1981- G protein pioneer, Nobel Laureate (Medicine and Physiology)

Barry J. Marshall, Faculty 1986-, co-discoverer of H.Pylori as the cause of peptic ulcer disease, Nobel Laureate (Medicine and Physiology)

Francis A. Carey, Faculty 1966- Author of Organic Chemistry, most widely used college organic chemistry text

Matthew A. Howard, Medicine 1985 - Neurosurgeon, inventor, co-founder of Stereotaxis Corp.

Ferid Murad, Faculty 1970-1981- Pioneer in role of Nitric Oxide in biology, Nobel Laureate (Medicine and Physiology)

William Barton Rogers Faculty 1835-1853 , Founder and President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert M Berne Faculty 1966-2001, Lead the lab that discovered role of Adenosine in coronary blood flow which led to development of widely used cardiac drug Adenocard

Leonard Malis, Med 1943- Neurosurgeon, first to use microsope in OR, introduced field of microsurgery

Wade Hampton Frost, Med 1903- Established epidemiology as a science, founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Alfred Chantin, Faculty 1935-1967, Discovered role of 2,3-DPG in oxygen transfer from hemoglobin which made enormous impact in blood transfusion therapy

S. Ward Casscells, Med 1939- pioneering orthopedic surgeon, introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States

Andrea Saathoff, Grad 1999 - Researcher at Positive Survivors Research Center & Former member of US National Rowing Team

[edit] Writers and academics

Craig K. Agule, Law 2002- Practitioner, Socratic Poet, Houndsman
Louis Auchincloss, Law 1941 - Novelist, Lawyer
Paul Bowles (attended) - Novelist, Travel Writer, Composer
Charles Augustus Briggs, Col 1860 - Hebrew Scholar and Theologian
Linda Fairstein, Law 1972 - Prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan and best-selling author of crime novels
Julien Green/Julian Hartridge Green, Col 1922, one of the major figures of French litterature of the 20th century
Edward P. Jones, Grad 1981 - Author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow
Edgar Odell Lovett, Grad 1895 - Mathematician, Astronomer, First and longest-tenured President of Rice University
Edgar Allan Poe (attended) - Poet, author of The Raven
Paul Craig Roberts, economist and political pundit, who served as Undersecretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan
Larry Sabato, Col 1974 - Called the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal
Will Shortz, Law - Editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle
Brooks D. Simpson, Col 1979 - Historian
William Force Stead, Col 1905 - American diplomat and poet
Henry S. Taylor, Col 1965 - 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
David Baldacci, Law-1986 - best selling novelist

William Faulkner, Faculty, writer in residence 1957-1962, Great Southern writer, Nobel Laureate (Literature)

Peter Taylor, Faculty, Pulitzer prize, Pen/Faulkner award winning novelist,short story writer

 Dumas Malone, Faculty. Historian and Biographer of Thomas Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize winner

Herbert Stein, Faculty, Economist, author,Chairman of President's Council of Economic advisors (Richard Nixon)

[edit] Media

Robert Aldrich (attended) - Film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen
Fred Barnes, Col 1965 - Editor, The Weekly Standard
Katie Couric, Col 1979 - Anchor CBS"Evening News", Former host, NBC's The Today Show
Deidre Downs (attended) - Miss America 2005
Kimberly Dozier, 1993 - reporter for CBS News
Thomas Frank, Col 1987 - Founder and editor, The Baffler
Brit Hume, Col 1965 - Managing editor, Fox News
Laura Ingraham, Law 1991 - Conservative talk-show host
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Law 1969 - Co-host, Ring of Fire
Tom Shadyac, Col 1981 - Director, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Patch Adams (film), Bruce Almighty.
Melissa Stark, Col 1995 - Reporter, ESPN and ABC's Monday Night Football
Whitney Casey, Edu 1997 - Correspondent, CNN and Anchor CNN Headline News
Larry Sabato, Col 1972, TV political pundit
Ron Suskind, Col 1981, Pulitzer prize winning journalist, author

 Virginius Dabney, Col 1921, Editor of Richmond Times Dispatch, author,Pulitzer prize winner(editorial writing)

[edit] Actors, musicians, and artists

Dave Matthews, Col 1990 - Musician, Front man of The Dave Matthews Band
Sarah Drew, Col 2002 - Actress
Tina Fey, Col 1992 - Head writer, actress, Saturday Night Live
Jason George, Col 1994 - Actor
Rod MacDonald, Col 1970 - singer/songwriter
Stephen Malkmus, Col 1988 - Lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement
Benjamin McKenzie, Col 2001 - Actor, Fox's The O.C.
Georgia O'Keeffe (attended summer school) - Painter
Amanda Paige - Playboy Playmate
Sean Patrick Thomas, Col 1993 - Actor
Skipp Sudduth, Grad 1983 - Actor
Dylan Walsh, Col 1986 - Actor Nip/Tuck
Stan Winston, Col - special effects

[edit] Athletics

Val Ackerman, Col 1981 - Founder and former president of WNBA
Jeff Agoos, Com 1991 - Soccer player with San Jose Earthquakes and U.S. national team
Ronde Barber, Com 1996 - Cornerback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tiki Barber, Com 1997 - Tailback, New York Giants
Heather and Heidi Burge, both Col 1993 - Former WNBA players
Rick Carlisle, Col 1984 - Former NBA player; current head coach, Indiana Pacers
Bill Dudley, Educ 1942 - NFL Hall of Fame player.
Alecko Eskandarian Col (attended) - MLS #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team
Paul Ereng, Col 1993 - Gold medalist in 800 meters at 1988 Summer Olympics
D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Col 2006 - Offensive Tackle, New York Jets
Tim Finchem - Law 1973, Commissioner of the PGA Tour
Conor Gill, Col 2002 - won the Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award in 2002; named MLL MVP in 2004.
Al Groh, Comm 1967 - former Head Coach of New York Jets, current Head Coach of Virginia Football team
Darryl Hammond, Col 1988 - Arena Football League career tackles leader
Thomas Jones - Running Back, Chicago Bears
Bowie Kuhn - Law 1950, former commissioner of major league baseball
Wali Lundy - Running Back, Houston Texans
Tom McKnight - Professional Golfer on Champions Tour
Tony Meola, Col 1989 - Major League Soccer and World Cup goalkeeper
Heath Miller, Col 2004 - Tight end, Pittsburgh Steelers
Herman Moore, Col 1991 - NFL record-holder for catches in a season
Ed Moses, Col - Olympic gold medalist in swimming
Shamek Pietucha, Col 1999 - Olympic swimmer
Chris Rotelli, 2003 - Professional Lacrosse player
Claudio Reyna (attended) - Soccer player with Manchester City in English Premiership; captain of U.S. national team
Eppa Rixey, Col 1912 - Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Ralph Sampson, Col 1983 - NBA #1 overall draft pick, All-Star center with Houston Rockets
Kurt Smith, Col 2006 - Current NFL player, San Diego Chargers
Dawn Staley, Col 1992 - Olympic gold medalist, carried U.S. flag at opening ceremonies of 2004 Summer Olympics
DeMya Walker, Col 1999 - WNBA player
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. - Founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium
Ryan Zimmerman - Col 2005 - 3rd Baseman for the Washington Nationals
Ana Montes - Convicted Cuban Spy

[edit] Chaplains

Collins Denny (1889-91), later a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1910-1939)

[edit] Links

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ACADEMICS	Schools: School of Architecture (SARC/GARC) • College of Arts & Sciences (CLAS/GSAS) • School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCED) • Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) • McIntire School of Commerce (SCC) • Curry School of Education (SED/GED) • School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS/GEAS) • School of Law (LAW/GLAW) • School of Medicine (SMD) • School of Nursing (NURS/GNUR) • US Army Judge Advocate General’s School Programs: Jefferson Scholars • Echols Scholars • Rodman Scholars Research: Association of American Universities • Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy • Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities • Japanese Text Initiative • Universitas 21 • Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership • Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture • Applied Research in Patacriticism • Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship • Legion • Mentat • Real-Time Cmix Research publications: Journal of Law and Politics Miscellaneous: Honor code • Rare Book School • Semester at Sea • University of Virginia's College at Wise
ATHLETICS	ACC • Virginia Cavaliers • Cavalier Marching Band • Virginia Pep Band • theSabre • Wahoos • Wah-hoo-wah Rivalries: Commonwealth Cup • Jefferson-Eppes Trophy • South's Oldest Rivalry Current Facilities: Aquatics and Fitness Center • Birdwood Golf Course • Davenport Field • John Paul Jones Arena • Klöckner Stadium • Lake Monticello • Lannigan Track • Memorial Gym • Panorama Farms • The Park • Scott Stadium • Sheridan Snyder Tennis Center • Turf Field Past Facilities: University Hall
GROUNDS	The Lawn • The Range • The Rotunda • The Corner • Charlottesville • Fan Mountain Observatory • Jefferson Hall • McCormick Observatory • Rugby Road
STUDENT LIFE	Publications: The Cavalier Daily • Corks & Curls • The Virginia Quarterly Review • University of Virginia Press • Virginia Law Weekly Debating Societies: Jefferson Literary and Debating Society • Washington Literary Society and Debating Union Performing Arts: Academical Village People • Hullabahoos • New Dominions • Virginia Glee Club • Other Residential Colleges: Brown College at Monroe Hill • Hereford College • International Residential College Secret Societies: IMP Society • Seven Society • Z Society • Other
PEOPLE	Notable Alumni • University Presidents Thomas Jefferson • James Madison • James Monroe • Woodrow Wilson • Robert F. Kennedy • Edgar Allan Poe • Georgia O'Keeffe • Javier Solana • Paul Tudor Jones • Katie Couric • Tiki Barber • Ronde Barber • Ralph Sampson • Dawn Staley • Claudio Reyna • Tina Fey
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