List of University of Virginia people

University of Virginia is one of only two institutions of higher learning in the United States which was founded by a U.S. President, the other being the State University of New York at Buffalo. This page is a partial list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Virginia.

Rectors and members of the Board of Visitors

• Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809); founder, Rector (1819–1826)^[1]
• James Madison – 4th President of the United States (1809–1817); Rector (1826–1836)
• James Monroe – 5th President of the United States (1817–1825)
• Andrew Stevenson – 15th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1827–1833); Rector (1856–1857)
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph – Rector (1857–1864)
• John Stewart Bryan—Rector and Board Member (1918-1922) ^[2]
• Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. – Rector (1946–1949)
• D. French Slaughter, Jr. – Rector (1980–1982)
• Helen Dragas – Rector (2011–2013)

Notable faculty

• Elizabeth Barnes - Professor of philosophy at the Corcoran Department of Philosophy
• John Bonvillian - Associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
• Anna Brickhouse - Director of American Studies
• James M. Buchanan (1956–1968) - economics; public choice theory; Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986
• Lester J. Cappon - historian, documentary editor, and archivist
• Ronald Coase (1958–1964) - published one of his two most famous articles ("The Problem of Social Cost", 1960) during this time; Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991^[3]
• William Faulkner - faculty; writer in residence; the University of Virginia owns today the world's largest Faulkner collection thanks to his will and later donations; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962^[4]
• Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012) - faculty; known as "the father of biochemical engineering".
• Alfred G. Gilman (1971–1981) - medicine; G protein pioneer; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994
• Milton W. Humphreys - Professor of Latin and Greek, 1887-1915; buried in the campus cemetery
• W. A. Lambeth - medical professor, first athletic director.
• Dumas Malone - historian; biographer of Thomas Jefferson; received the Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time in 1975
• Barry J. Marshall - co-discoverer of Helicobacter pylori as the cause of peptic ulcer disease; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005
• Ferid Murad (1970–1981) - medicine; pioneer in role of nitric oxide in biology; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998
• Edward P. Ney, (Ph.D 1946, faculty 1946–47) - (astro)physics, discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei
• William Barton Rogers (1835–1853) - faculty for natural philosophy and department head for philosophy; founded MIT and became its first president
• Richard Rorty (1982–1998) - philosopher and pragmatist^[5]
• Antonin Scalia (1967–71) - law; joined the team of Richard Nixon in 1971; served on the Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016
• Herbert Stein (1974–1984) - A. Willis Robertson Professor of Economics; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
• Peter Taylor (1967-1983) - literature and writing; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993^[6]
• George Tucker (1775–1861) - moral philosophy; authored the first comprehensive biography of Jefferson in 1837
• Siva Vaidhyanathan (2007–present) - Professor of Media Studies and author of books on copyright and digital media.

Alumni

Space and land exploration

• Richard E. Byrd (attended) – Polar explorer, first to fly over South Pole^[7]
• Patrick G. Forrester, Grad 1989 – NASA astronaut^[8]
• Karl G. Henize, Col 1947, Grad 1948 – astronomer; NASA astronaut^[8]
• Thomas Marshburn, Engr 1984 – NASA astronaut^[8]
• Leland Melvin, Engr 1991 - NASA astronaut^[8]
• Bill Nelson, Law 1968 – NASA astronaut; U.S. Senator, Florida^[8]
• Gregory Olsen, Grad 1971 - co-founder and Chairman of Sensors Unlimited, Inc.; third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station^[8]
• Kathryn C. Thornton, Grad 1977, Grad 1979 – NASA astronaut^[8]
• Jeff Wisoff, Col 1980 - NASA astronaut; engineering professor at Rice University^[8]

United States Supreme Court

• Howell Edmunds Jackson, Grad 1854 – Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee^[9]
• James Clark McReynolds, Law 1884 – Justice, United States Supreme Court^[10]
• Stanley Forman Reed, Law 1908 – Justice, United States Supreme Court; United States Solicitor General^[11]

Politics and diplomacy

• Yasushi Akashi, Grad 1956 – Chairman, International House of Japan;^[12] former Undersecretary of the United Nations^[13]
• George Allen, Col 1974, Law 1977 – Governor and U.S. Senator, Virginia^[14]
• Hanan Ashrawi, Grad 1982 – Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process; peace activist^[15]
• Nathan L. Bachman, Law 1903 – U.S. Senator, Tennessee; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court^[16]
• Alben W. Barkley, Law 1900 – 35th Vice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator, Kentucky^[17]
• Francois Barras, Grad 1976 – Swiss Ambassador to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates^[18]
• Evan Bayh, Law 1981 – U.S. Senator and Governor, Indiana^[19]
• Rupert Blue, Col 1890 – Surgeon General of the United States
• Kit Bond, Law 1963 – U.S. Senator, Missouri
• Alan Stephenson Boyd, Law 1948 – first United States Secretary of Transportation
• David Brown, Col 1977 – Mayor of Charlottesville
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Law 1936 – U.S. Senator, Virginia
• James Laurence Cabell, Class 1833 – President of National Board of Health
• Millard F. Caldwell, Law 1924 – Governor, U.S. Congressman, and State Supreme Court Justice, Florida^[20]
• Mortimer Caplin, Law 1940 – Internal Revenue Service commissioner, law professor, tax attorney
• James Paul Clarke, Law 1878 – United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas^[21][22]
• John Cornyn, Law 1995 – U.S. Senator, Texas
• Ken Cuccinelli, Engr 1990 – Virginia Attorney General
• Hugh S. Cumming, Med 1893 – Surgeon General of the United States
• Joseph T. Curry - member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1930 to 1944^[23]
• William H. Daingerfield, 1829 – 2nd Mayor of San Antonio; Ambassador
• Henry Winter Davis, Law 1841 – outspoken Radical Republican; U.S. Congressman, Maryland
• Collins Denny, Jr. (1899-1964), 1924, pro-segregationist lawyer.^[24]
• Mary DeRosa, 1981 - former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
• Hasjim Djalal, Law 1959 – Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations;^[25] Chairman and President of the International Seabed Authority,^[26] international law of the sea expert^[27][28]
• William A. Eaton, 1978, former United States Ambassador to Panama, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
• William Meade Fishback, Law 1855 – 17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator-Elect, Arkansas^[29]
• Luis Fortuño, Law 1985 – Governor of Puerto Rico
• Thomas Watt Gregory, Law 1884 – Attorney General of the United States
• Michael Guest, Grad 1981 – U.S. Ambassador to Romania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. Ambassador^[30]
• Barbara Halliday, mayor-elect of Hayward, California
• Hilary A. Herbert, Law 1855 – Secretary of the Navy
• Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Col 1828 – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senator, Virginia
• Eppa Hunton, Law 1843 – CSA Brigadier General; U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, Virginia
• Louis Arthur Johnson, Law 1913 – Second United States Secretary of Defense
• Brereton Jones, Class 1961 – 58th Governor of Kentucky
• Edward M. Kennedy, Law 1959 – U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
• John Neely Kennedy, Law 1977 – State Treasurer of Louisiana
• Robert F. Kennedy, Law 1951 – U.S. Senator, New York; 1968 U.S. Presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General
• William Preston Lane, Jr., Law 1915 – Governor, Maryland
• Samuel Lawrason, Engineering 1872 – Louisiana state senator who authored Lawrason Act of 1898 regarding municipal government.^[31]
• J. Hamilton Lewis – U.S. Senator, Illinois and first Whip
• Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., Law, Missouri Supreme Court Justice
• Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Col 1978, Law 1981 – Cabinet secretary, Clinton administration
• Henry M. Mathews, Grad 1856 - 5th Governor of West Virginia
• Samuel D. McEnery, Col 1857 - Governor and U.S. Senator for Louisiana
• Chuck McMains, Law 1973 – former Louisiana state representative and lobbyist
• Ana Montes, Col 1979 – convicted Cuban spy
• John S. Mosby (attended) – the "Gray Ghost", CSA guerilla fighter
• Robert Mueller, Law 1973 – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Janet Napolitano, Law 1983 – President of the University of California System; former Governor of Arizona and Secretary of Homeland Security^[32]
• Bill Nelson, Law 1968 – U.S. Senator, Florida; NASA astronaut
• Longin Pastusiak, Grad 1959 – Marshall of the Senate, Poland
• H. Foster Pettit, B.A. and Law - member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1965 to 1970; mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, 1972 to 1978^[33]
• George W. Randolph, Law 1842 – Confederate States Secretary of War
• Pratt C. Remmel, Col 1937 – Mayor of Little Rock from 1951–1955
• Chuck Robb, 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., Law 1940 – U.S. Congressman, New York
• Chuck Rosenberg, 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
• Larry Sabato, Col 1974 – politics professor; Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics; called the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal
• Mark Sanford, Darden 1988 – Governor of South Carolina
• James Alexander Seddon, Grad 1836 – 4th Confederate States Secretary of War
• Joseph D. Selby - lawyer, judge, state legislator in Cheyenne, Wyoming
• Faryar Shirzad, Law – advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
• John William Snow, Grad 1965 – United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Javier Solana, Grad 1968 – Spanish former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous European Union foreign policy chief
• William B. Spong, Jr., Law 1947 – U.S. Senator, Virginia
• John C. Stennis, Law 1928 – U.S. Senator, Mississippi
• Edward Stettinius, Jr., Col 1924 – United States Secretary of State
• Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, Law 1835 – Missouri Attorney General and Border Ruffian
• Robert M. Switzer, Law - United States Representative^[34]
• Charles L. Terry, Jr., Col 1922 – Governor, Delaware
• Lee Emmett Thomas, Law 1889 – Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana (1922–1930) and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representative (1912–1916)^[35]
• Robert Toombs, Law 1830 – U.S. Senator, Georgia
• John V. Tunney, Law 1959 – U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, California
• Thomas B. Turley, Law 1867 – U.S. Senator, Tennessee
• William M. Walton, Law 1851 – Attorney General of Texas
• John Warner, Law 1953 – U.S. Senator, Virginia
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Law 1957 – Governor, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Senator, Connecticut
• Kevin Whitaker, Col 1979 - U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
• John C. White, English 1998 - Louisiana education superintendent since 2012^[36]
• John Sharp Williams, Law 1876 – Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
• Woodrow Wilson (attended) – 28th President of the United States
• Walter Wyatt, Law 1917 – General Counsel, Federal Reserve System
• Yan Huiqing, Col 1900 – Premier and Prime Minister of the Republic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; 1st Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Chinese Representative in the League of Nations ^[37]

Business

• Lee Ainslie, Comm 1986 – founder and managing partner of Maverick Capital^[38]
• Eric C. Anderson, Engr 1996 – President and CEO, co-founder, Space Adventures
• Eric A. Drum, CLAS 1987 – founder, OldStocks.com
• David T. Beers, Col 1975 – Special Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, former head of sovereign credit ratings, Standard & Poor's^[39]
• Alfred Berkeley, Col 1966 – President, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
• Vinit S. Bhatt, Engr MS 1984, Founder of Bhatt Innovation Capital, a technology-focused long/short equity hedge fund, http://www.bhattic.com
• Charles L. Brown, Engr 1943 – Chairman and CEO, American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
• John H. Bryan, Darden 1960 – CEO and Chairman of Sara Lee
• 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
• George David, Darden 1967 – Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation
• William Stamps Farish III, Col 1962 – Chairman of the Board, Churchill Downs, U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom^[40]
• Thomas Farrell, 1976, CEO, Dominion Resources
• John A. Griffin, Comm 1985 – founder, president and trustee, Blue Ridge Capital,^[41][42]
• William A. Hawkins, Darden 1982 – CEO, Medtronic Corp.
• Russell Herron, Engr 1979 – author, co-founder of GeoQuest Systems
• Laura K. Ipsen, Monsanto board member
• Mansoor Ijaz, Col 1983 - founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd
• Paul Tudor Jones, Col 1976 – President and founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and the Robin Hood Foundation, billionaire
• Randal J. Kirk, Law 1979 – founder, chairman, New River Pharmaceutical; billionaire^[43]
• Alan Lafley (attended) – CEO, Chairman of the Board, Procter & Gamble
• Alexander F. Mathews, M.A. 1856 - President and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte^[44]
• Halsey Minor, Col 1987 – co-founder and former CEO, CNET Inc.
• Nick Morgan - speaking coach and author^[45]:229
• Daniel Mudd, Col 1980 – CEO, Fannie Mae
• P Clarke Murphy, History 1984 – CEO, Russell Reynolds Associates^[46][47]
• William Nelson Page (attended) – civil engineer, co-founder of the Virginian Railway
• Timothy J. Naughton, Col 1987, CEO and President, AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
• Michelle Nunn, Col 1989 – CEO, Points of Light
• Charles T. Pepper, Med 1855 – the original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company
• Peter Quick, Engr 1978 – Chairman, Gain Capital; former President, American Stock Exchange; former President and CEO, Quick & Reilly^[48]
• Steven Reinemund, Darden 1978 – Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
• Ed Romanoff, Entrepreneur and singer-songwriter^[49]
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Col 1948 – Colombian businessman, billionaire
• John D. Shafer Jr., Darden 1968 – President of Dunkin' Donuts^[50]
• Thomas Shannon, Darden 1992 – CEO, Bowlmor Lanes^[51]
• Sheridan Snyder, Col 1958 – entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Samuel Spencer – Engr 1868 – first President, Southern Railway
• Mark B. Templeton, Darden 1978 – President and CEO, Citrix Systems
• Robert R. Young (attended) – Chairman of the Board, C&O Railroad
• William P. Utt, Engr 1979, 1980, Darden 1984 – CEO/President, KBR

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 five primary physicists selected for the Manhattan Project, pioneer of ultracentrifuge
• S. Ward Casscells, Med 1939 – pioneering orthopedic surgeon, introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States
• Francis Collins, Col 1970 – Director, Human Genome Project
• Heber Doust Curtis, Grad 1902 - astronomer who participated in the "Great Debate" with Harlow Shapley, 1920
• Wade Hampton Frost, Med 1903 – established epidemiology as a science, founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• J. Hartwell Harrison, Med 1932 - pioneer kidney transplant surgeon, member Board of Visitors
• Steve Huffman, Engr 2005 – co-founder of Reddit
• Richard Lutz, Col 1971 – deep sea vent researcher, Director of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences^[52]
• Janet Akyüz Mattei, Grad 1972 – astronomer; Director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers
• Edward P. Ney, Ph.D 1946 and Faculty 1946–47 – astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei
• Alexis Ohanian, Comm 2005 – co-founder of Reddit
• Charles Pollard Olivier, Grad 1911 - astronomer; founder, American Meteor Society
• Charlie Papazian, nuclear engineer; influential member of the American homebrewing movement
• Phil Plait, Grad 1994 – author of Bad Astronomy and Bad Astronomy blog
• Walter Reed, Med 1869 – discovered transmission of yellow fever
• Mendel Rosenblum, Col 1984 – co-founder, VMware
• Stuart Schreiber, Col 1977 - chemical biologist; founding member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
• Ann M. Valentine, BS 1993 - inorganic chemist
• Alexander N. Vyssotsky, Grad 1927 – astronomer; cataloged Milky Way M dwarf stars
• Beverly R. Wellford, Grad 1816 – sixth President of the American Medical Association
• Thomas W. Whitaker, MS 1929, PhD 1931, botanist and horticulturist
• 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, President of the National Academy of Engineering
• Hugh H. Young, Col 1889, Med 1891 – inventor, author, pioneering surgeon
• Norman L. Crabill, MAE – engineer, inventor, author

Writers and academics

• Todd J. Albert, Surgeon and author
• Louis Auchincloss, Law 1941 – novelist, Lawyer
• David Baldacci, Law 1986 – novelist
• Paul Bowles (attended) – novelist, travel writer, composer
• Charles Augustus Briggs, Col 1860 – Hebrew scholar and theologian
• Skylar Hamilton Burris, Col 1997 - Novelist
• C.E. Byrd, Attended 1882–1883 – educator
• Erskine Caldwell, attended 1923-1926 - novelist, author of Tobacco Road
• John T. Casteen III, Col 1965, Grad 1970 – President of the University of Virginia
• John R. Conniff, New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator; president of Louisiana Tech University, 1926-1928; attended University of Louisiana c. 1895^[53]
• Heather Derr-Smith, Col 1995 – poet
• Tyler Drumheller, Col 1974 – Pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author of On the Brink
• Claudia Emerson, Col 1979 – 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
• Linda Fairstein, Law 1972 – prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan and best-selling author of crime novels
• Jerry Falwell, Jr., Law 1987 – Chancellor and President, Liberty University
• Richard Foerster, A&S 1972 – poet
• Joanne B. Freeman - historian
• William Fuller, Ph.D. 1983, poet; senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation^[54]
• Elizabeth Garrett, Law 1988 - President of Cornell University; former provost of the University of Southern California^[55]
• Emily Giffin, Law 1997 – chick lit author
• Julien Green, Col 1922, a major figure of French literature of the 20th century
• Claude Hall, Grad 1954 – historian, author of Abel Parker Upshur
• Trig Johnson, PhD, Col 1994 – educator and musician^[56]
• Edward P. Jones, Grad 1981 – author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow
• Jack Temple Kirby - historian of the Southern United States, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South^[57]
• Gloria Cordes Larson, Law 1976 – President of Bentley University
• Helen Matthews Lewis, Master's of Sociology 1949 - sociologist, historian, and activist
• Edgar Odell Lovett, Grad 1895 – mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured President of Rice University
• J. Hillis Miller, Sr., Grad 1928 – fourth President of the University of Florida (1947–1953)
• Robert Miskimon (attended) – novelist, journalist, poet
• Blake Morant, Col 1975, Law 1978 – Dean of Wake Forest University School of Law (2007–present)
• David Nolan, Col 1967 – author and historian
• Breece D'J Pancake (attended) – short-story writer
• Edgar Allan Poe (attended) – poet, author of "The Raven"
• Harrison Randolph, Grad 1892, thirteenth President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945)
• W. Taylor Reveley, III, Law 1968 – President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School
• William Craig Rice, Col 1975 – president of Shimer College^[58]
• Paul Craig Roberts, economist and political pundit; Undersecretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan
• Will Shortz, Law – editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle
• Brooks D. Simpson, Col 1979 – historian
• Valerie Smith, Grad 1978 – President, Swarthmore College; former Dean of the College, Princeton University^[59]
• Jens Söring, honor student – autobiographer and writer of social issues
• Richard B. Spencer, Col 2001 - White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, President and Director of the National Policy Institute
• William Force Stead, Col 1905 – diplomat and poet
• Henry S. Taylor, Col 1965 – Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
• Dennis Unkovic, Col 1970 – international business advisor; author of six books; partner at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott
• Richard E. Wagner, 1966 – economist

Media

• Robert Aldrich (attended) – film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen
• Fred Barnes, Col 1965 – editor, The Weekly Standard
• John Brenkus, Col 1993 – host, ESPN's Sports Science^[60]
• Margaret Brennan, Col 2002 – Bloomberg TV anchor, In Business with Margaret Brennan
• Bruce Brandfon, Col 1969 - publisher, Scientific American
• Coran Capshaw, Col 1983 – founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys
• Whitney Casey, Educ 1997 – Correspondent, CNN and Anchor CNN Headline News
• Katie Couric, Col 1979 – Anchor CBS Evening News, Former host, NBC's The Today Show
• Virginius Dabney, Col 1921, Editor of Richmond Times Dispatch, author, Pulitzer prize winner (editorial writing)
• Lane DeGregory, Col 1989, Grad 1995 – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist^[61]
• Deidre Downs (attended) – Miss America 2005
• Kimberly Dozier, 1993 – reporter for CBS News
• Thomas Frank, Col 1987 – founder and editor, The Baffler
• Bob Gazzale, Col 1987 – President, American Film Institute^[62][63]
• Richard Glatzer, Grad 1975 - film director, producer, writer, Still Alice, The Fluffer, and Quinceañera^[64]
• David M. Granger, Grad 1981 – Editor-In-Chief, Esquire^[65][66]
• Rea S. Hederman, Darden 1968 – publisher, New York Review of Books^[67]
• Bernard Holland – former chief music critic for The New York Times
• Brit Hume, Col 1965 – Managing editor, Fox News
• Laura Ingraham, Law 1991 – conservative talk show host
• Mark Johnson, Col 1971 – film producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia; Academy Award recipient^[68]
• Rich Lowry, Col 1990 – Editor-In-Chief, National Review
• Jessica Lynch, Col 2000 – Miss New York 2003^[69]
• Elva Mason - Media Manager and Attorney
• Tyler Mathisen, Col 1976 – co-anchor, Power Lunch; Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC^[70]
• George P. Rodrigue III, Col 1978 – Editor, The Plain Dealer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, Col – The Apprentice
• Andrew Scheinman, Law 1973 – TV producer, Seinfeld; Emmy Award recipient
• Tom Shadyac, Col 1981 – director, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty
• Leigh-Taylor Smith, Col 2007 – Miss New York 2009^[71]
• Melissa Stark, Col 1995 – reporter, ESPN and 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
• James Wagner, Col 2008 – staff writer, The New York Times, baseball writer^[72]
• Paul Junger Witt, Col 1963 – film producer, Dead Poets Society, Three Kings and Insomnia; TV producer, The Golden Girls, The Partridge Family, Soap, Benson, and Blossom;^[73] Emmy Award recipient^[74]
• Vern Yip, Col 1990 – interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality^[75]

Actors, musicians, and artists

David Berman

Tina Fey

• Will Anderson, lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute
• 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/songstress
• Jason George, Col 1994 – actor
• Ann Hould-Ward, Grad 1978 – Broadway costume designer, Tony Award recipient
• Jen Lilley, Col 2007 – actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Artist
• 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) – painter
• 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 WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference
• 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
• Darion Atkins - basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Ligat HaAl
• Ronde Barber, Comm 1996 – 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
• Brian Buchanan – former MLB player
• Heather and Heidi Burge, both Col 1993 – former WNBA players^[76]
• Chris Canty - former NFL defensive end
• Rick Carlisle, Col 1984 – former NBA player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks
• John Choma - retired NFL offensive linemen, San Francisco 49ers
• Casey Crawford - NFL tight end
• Mike Cubbage – Former MLB third baseman and manager
• Virginius Dabney – running back
• Chris Dey, Col 1989 – President, New York Islanders (NHL)
• Somdev Devvarman, Col 2008 - tennis professional with a career high ranking of 62 in the world
• Bill Dudley, Educ 1942 – NFL Hall of Fame player
• Jeffrey Eggleston, 2007 - long-distance runner
• Carlton Elliott – defensive end, Green Bay Packers
• 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
• Mustapha Farrakhan Jr. – guard for the Bakersfield Jam^[77]
• 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.
• Robert Kent Gooch – quarterback
• Jim Grobe, 1975, 1978 – current head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
• Al Groh, Comm 1967 – former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia football team
• Brandon Guyer – outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays
• Darryl Hammond, Col 1988 – Arena Football League career tackles leader
• John Harkes, former soccer player and captain of U.S. national team
• Brett Hughes, 2004 – professional lacrosse player; co-founder and Chairman of Lacrosse the Nations 501c3
• Mike Jones/Virgil/Vincent/Curly Moe – professional wrestler
• Thomas Jones – running back, Kansas City Chiefs
• Melanie Kok – silver medalist in rowing at 2008 Summer Olympics
• Joe Koshansky – first baseman for the San Francisco Giants farm system (formerly with the Colorado Rockies)
• Bowie Kuhn – Law 1950, former Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Jeff Lamp – former NBA player
• Noel LaMontagne - retired NFL offensive linemen, Cleveland Browns
• Sylven Landesberg, basketball shooting guard (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
• Chris Long, defensive end for the St. Louis Rams
• Javier López – relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
• John Loyd – tackle
• Wali Lundy – running back, Houston Texans
• Buck Mayer – running back
• Tom McKnight, Com 1976 – Champions Tour golfer
• Tony Meola, Col 1989 – Major League Soccer and World Cup goalkeeper
• Heath Miller, Col 2004 – tight end, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Eugene Monroe, Col 2008 – offensive Tackle, Jacksonville Jaguars
• Herman Moore, Col 1991 – NFL former record-holder for catches in a season
• Ed Moses, Educ 2004 – Olympic gold medalist in swimming
• Ben Olsen (attended) – international soccer player; former player and current coach of D.C. United
• John Phillips - NFL tight end
• Shamek Pietucha, Col 1999 – Olympic swimmer
• Chris Rotelli, 2003 – professional lacrosse player
• John Beverly Pollard – quarterback
• Claudio Reyna (attended) – International soccer player; former captain of U.S. national team
• LaRoy Reynolds - Middle Linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
• Mark Reynolds – third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals
• Eppa Rixey, Col 1912 – Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Ralph Sampson, Col 1983 – NBA #1 overall draft pick, All-Star center with Houston Rockets and member of the Hall of Fame
• Matt Schaub, Col 2003 – quarterback, Houston Texans
• Michael Schwimer, 2008 – relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
• Mike Scott – NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks
• Don Shula – head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins; career wins leader among NFL coaches; defensive backs coach for the 1958 Virginia Cavaliers football team
• Chris Slade, Col 1993 – Defensive End / Linebacker NFL All Pro New England Patriots
• Michael Slive, Law 1965 – outgoing commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) (retiring in 2015)
• Devin Smith, professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv
• 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
• Bradley Walker - former referee
• DeMya Walker, Col 1999 – WNBA player
• 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 – third baseman for the Washington Nationals

Military

Gen. Robert Magnus

• Fernando Bolivar, Venezuelan militar, nephew of General Simon Bolivar
• 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 – former 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^[78]
• Maj. Gen. Donald W. Henderson, USAF, Engr 1960 – Commander, Space and Missile Test Organization^[79]
• Captain Humayun Khan - U.S. Army officer killed in combat in Iraq
• Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC, Col 1969 – Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
• VADM John Morgan, USN, Col 1972 – former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy
• Brig. Gen. William Preston Nuckols, USAF, Col 1927 – Commander, 33rd Continental Air Defense Division
• Vice Admiral Denby H. Starling, II USN, Engr 1974 – former Commander, Navy Cyber Forces and Commander, Naval Network Warfare Command
• 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

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 - Confederate chaplain, campus minister, Christian author.

Environmentalism

• Gary L. Francione – legal theorist, law professor, and animal rights/vegan activist. Earned M.A. and J.D. at UVA.
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Law 1982 – Chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance; co-host of Ring of Fire; Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper^[80]
• William A. Welch – engineer and environmentalist who had a major impact on the state and national park systems of the United States

References

External links

• "Manual of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia" (PDF).  (364 KB)