List of University of Tennessee people

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The following is a list of people associated with the University of Tennessee in all its campuses. The list does not include personnel associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

1 Politics and law
2 Education
3 Actors, directors, and entertainers
4 Artists and musicians
5 Authors
6 Business and economy
7 Military
8 Athletics and sportscasters
9 Journalists and newscasters
10 Nobel laureates
11 Science and technology
12 Astronauts
13 References
14 External links

[edit] Politics and law

Ali Abu al-Ragheb, former Jordanian Prime Minister
Lamar Alexander, former Tennessee Governor, UT President and current US Senator
John Justin Armitage, diplomat^[1]
Victor Ashe, U.S. ambassador to Poland, former mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, member of House of Representatives
Richard W. Austin, member of House of Representatives
Howard Baker, Ambassador and former Senate Majority Leader
Howard Baker, Sr., member of House of Representatives
William M. Barker, Chief Justice to Tennessee Supreme Court
George White Baxter, Governor of Wyoming territory
Marion Speed Boyd, former U.S. district and Chief judge for Tennessee
John Lafayette Camp, politician and Civil War veteran
Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator
Walter Chandler, former mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
Philander Priestly Claxton Jr., alumnus '34; U.S. State Department official; president of the World Population Society from 1975 to 1985 ^[2]
Clement Comer Clay, former Governor of Alabama
Bob Corker, former mayor of Chattanooga, U.S. Senator
John Hervey Crozier, member of House of Representatives
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., former White House Counsel
Lincoln Davis, member of House of Representatives
Jim DeMint, South Carolina U.S. Senator
Lurita Doan, current Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration
John Duncan, Sr., member of House of Representative
Jimmy Duncan, member of House of Representatives
Winfield Dunn, former Governor of Tennessee
James B. Frazier, former Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator
Ronnie Greer, U.S. District judge for eastern Tennessee
Albert Gore, Sr., member of House of Representatives and U.S. Senator
Bart Gordon, member of House of Representatives
Bill Hendon, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
Van Hilleary, U. S. Congressman
John C. Houk, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas G. Hull, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
William L. Jenkins, member of U.S. House of Representatives
Ed Jones, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
Joel A. Katz, Entertainment lawyer [1] (UT College of Law)
Estes Kefauver, former U.S. Senator
Arthur Larson, politician
Dan Lipinski, U.S. Congressman (D-IL) and former professor
William Gibbs McAdoo, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
John E. McCall, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
Jimmy Naifeh, Speaker of the House, Tennessee House of Representatives
Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
George W. Ochs, former Mayor of Chattanooga
Hector Ormachea-Penaranda, Bolivian former Minister of Defense and national Senator
Michael C. Polt, U.S. Ambassador to Serbia
Percy Priest, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
Glenn Reynolds, UT law professor and author of the Instapundit political weblog
Mercer Reynolds, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
Kathryn Dee Robinson, former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana
Kenneth Rush, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Edward Terry Sanford, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Jim Sasser, former U.S. Senator
Ronald L. Schlicher, former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus
Heath Shuler, U.S. Representative from North Carolina, former NFL player
Paul Summers, former Attorney General of State of Tennessee
John S. Tanner, member of House of Representatives
Deborah Tate, United States FCC Commissioner
George Caldwell Taylor, former U.S. district judge
David Duvall Thomas, former deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Lawrence Tyson, former U.S. Senator
Gary R. Wade, Tennessee Supreme Court appointee, as of 2006
Herbert S. Walters, former U.S. Senator
Zach Wamp, member of House of Representatives
Washington C. Whitthorne former U.S. Senator

[edit] Education

Landrum Bolling, Mercy Corps director at large, former Earlham College president and noted negotiator
Philander P. Claxton Sr., founder of the UT Department of Education and U.S. commissioner of education from 1911 to 1921
Bob Clement, president of Cumberland College and politician
John Gaventa, political sociologist

[edit] Actors, directors, and entertainers

Clarence Brown, Academy Award nominated film director
Dixie Carter, actress
John Cullum, actor and singer
James Denton, actor, including role in Desperate Housewives
David Keith, actor and director

[edit] Artists and musicians

Jeff Baxter, Nike designer
Deana Carter, country music singer and songwriter
Ashley Cleveland, gospel singer ^[3]
C. Kermit Ewing, painter
Thomas Fulton, opera conductor^[4]
Park Overall, actress
Cheryl Lynn Studer, opera soprano^[5]
Carl Sublett, painter
Pam Tillis, country music singer
Delores Ziegler, opera singer ^[6]

[edit] Authors

Elizabeth Cox, novelist
Lowell Cunningham, comic book writer
Owen Davis, playwright
Alex Haley, novelist, biographer and essayist
May Justus, author of children's books ^[7]
Marilyn Kallet, poet
Joseph Wood Krutch, novelist, critic and naturalist
Richard Marius, novelist, scholar and speechwriter
Cormac McCarthy, novelist
Dave Ramsey, financial guru, author, and host of The Dave Ramsey Show
Vince Staten, humorist^[8]
Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and essayist
Allen Wier, fiction writer and scholar

[edit] Business and economy

Charles Scott Abbott, one of the two originators of Trivial Pursuit^[9]
James Clayton, President and CEO of Clayton Homes
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, healthcare expert
Charlie Ergen, Echostar CEO
Chad Holliday, CEO, DuPont
Min Kao, CEO and Founder of Garmin
William B. Stokely, former Chairman and CEO of Stokely Van Camp, Inc.
Chris Whittle, founder of Whittle Communications and Edison Schools

[edit] Military

Burwell B. Bell III, U.S. Army Commander
Lt. Gen. John Bradley, chief of the U.S. Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve command.
Robert Emmet Callan, major general in the U.S. Army and assistant chief of staff in the War Department from 1931 to 1935.
Clifton B. Cates, aide to President Woodrow Wilson and later commandant of the Marine Corps Schools
Thomas A. Davis, Captain of Spanish-American war
Norman C. Gaddis, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
Bruce K. Holloway, military commander of Allied Forces
Ridley McLean, rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and wrote the Bluejacket’s Manual, which is still used to teach naval recruits the basics of seamanship
Austin C. Shofner, World War II U.S. General
Maurice F. Weisner, former Pacific Fleet Admiral

[edit] Athletics and sportscasters

Brock Baker, Professional Wrestler and UT Basketball Player
Buddy bolding, Head Baseball Coach at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia
Kevin Burnett, NFL player
Tamika Catchings, WNBA player
R.A. Dickey, professional baseball pitcher
Phillip Fulmer, current football coach of UT's Tennessee Volunteers
Charlie Garner, NFL running back
Justin Gatlin, 2004 Summer Olympics 100m gold medalist
Ernie Grunfeld, former NBA player and current president of basketball operations, Washington Wizards
Sam Graddy, 1984 Summer Olympics 100m silver medalist and 4x100m glod medalist
Albert Haynesworth, NFL Defensive back
Todd Helton, Major League Baseball first baseman for the Colorado Rockies
Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA player
Allan Houston, NBA shooting guard and NCAA All-American
Luke Hudson, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
Bernard King, former NBA player
Kara Lawson, WNBA player/ESPN analyst
Jamal Lewis, NFL running back
Johnny Majors, Heisman Trophy runner-up and UT football coach
Peyton Manning, NFL quarterback
Tim McGee, NFL receiver
Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event winner
Kevin Nash, professional wrestler and UT basketball player
Lindsey Nelson, sportscaster
Woody Paige, sports analyst for The Denver Post and Around the Horn
Bruce Pearl, current men's head basketball coach
Carl Pickens, NFL receiver
Semeka Randall, WNBA player
JT Smith, former NFL player
Michelle Snow, WNBA player
Donté Stallworth, NFL WR
Pat Summitt, women's basketball head coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Reggie White, former NFL defensive lineman
Al Wilson, NFL player
Gibril Wilson, NFL Safety
Jason Witten, NFL player
Matthew Woerner, London Wasps rugby union player
Gene Wojciechowski, college football reporter/senior writer, ESPN The Magazine

[edit] Journalists and newscasters

Jesse Samuel Cottrell, was U.S. minister to Bolivia and Washington correspondent and editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Faith Fancher, journalist
Ann Taylor, NPR newscaster

[edit] Nobel laureates

James Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, received an M.S. degree from UT in 1941.^[10]
Peter Doherty, faculty member in the UT Health Science Center in Memphis

[edit] Science and technology

Milton Shaw, helped develop the reactor plant system for the world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, as well as other nuclear-powered ships.
Carl B. Huffaker, (1914 -1995) American biologist and agricultural scientist
Dr. William M. Bass, professor emeritus and founder of the Forensic Anthropology Center and the "Body Farm"
Jeffrey D. Case, co-developer of SNMP
Jack Dongarra, computer science professor and creator of LINPACK and LAPACK
E.O. Wilson, biologist and naturalist