Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
William Antholis	1986	Col	Director of UVA'sMiller Center; former Managing DirectorBrookings; former White House and State Department staff
Donald J. Boudreaux	1992	Law	Professor at theMercatus Center atGeorge Mason University
Claire-Marie Brisson	2021	Ph.D	Preceptor in French,Harvard University
William Yancey Brown	1969	Col	President ofBishop Museum, author and institutional leader
John T. Casteen III	1965, 1970	Col, Graduate	President of theUniversity of Virginia
Edmund M. Clarke	1967	Col	FORE Systems Professor ofComputer Science Emeritus atCarnegie Mellon University and recipient of the 2007A.M. Turing Award
Anita H. Clayton	1982	Med	Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at theUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine
John R. Conniff		Law	President ofLouisiana Tech University, 1926–1928	^[1]
Douglas Day	1954	BA; MA,PhD English	author, William Faulkner scholar, Clifton Waller Professor of English and Comparative Languages at UVa
David Ellenson	1973	MA Religion	President Emeritus and Chancellor ofHebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Jerry Falwell Jr.	1986	Law	Chancellor and President,Liberty University
Gary L. Francione		Law	Professor atRutgers University
Joanne B. Freeman	1993, 1998	MA, Ph.D	Professor of History and American Studies atYale University
Wade Hampton Frost	1903	Medicine	Founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, established epidemiology as a science
Elizabeth Garrett	1988	Law	President ofCornell University; former provost of theUniversity of Southern California	^[2]
Roger Harold Hull	1974	Law	President ofBeloit College andUnion College
Charles W. Kent	1882	Col	English professor at UVA
Gloria Cordes Larson	1976	Law	President ofBentley University
Helen Matthews Lewis	1949	Graduate	sociologist, historian, and activist
Edgar Odell Lovett	1895	Graduate	mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured President ofRice University
Richard A. Lutz	1971	Col	Professor at the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences	^[3]
M. Elizabeth Magill	1995	Law	Dean ofStanford Law School
J. Hillis Miller Sr.	1928	Graduate	President of theUniversity of Florida (1947–1953)
Blake Morant	1975, 1978	Col, Law	Dean ofGeorge Washington University Law School
Nick Morgan	1977, 1981	MA, PhD	Assistant Vice President and Provost, University of Virginia; professional at Princeton University	^[4]^: 229
Edward P. Ney	1946	Ph.D	Physicist and college professor who made major contributions tocosmic ray research andatmospheric physics	^[5]
Marvin Banks Perry Jr.	1940	Col	President ofGoucher College andAgnes Scott College
Harrison Randolph	1892	Graduate	President of theCollege of Charleston (1897–1945)
W. Taylor Reveley, III	1968	Law	President,The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law atWilliam & Mary Law School
William Craig Rice	1975	Col	President ofShimer College	^[6]
Larry Sabato	1974	Col	Director of theUniversity of Virginia Center for Politics
Alex Sanders	1990	Law	President of theCollege of Charleston (1992–2001)
Thomas A. Saunders III	1967	Darden	Chairman ofThe Heritage Foundation
Stuart Schreiber	1977	Col	Chemical biologist; founding member of theBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Nicole Shelton	1996, 1998	M.A., Ph.D	Professor of psychology atPrinceton University
Brooks D. Simpson	1979	Col	Professor of history atArizona State University,
Robert Sitkoff	1996	Graduate	Professor atHarvard Law School
Valerie Smith	1978, 1982	Graduate	President,Swarthmore College; former dean of the college,Princeton University	^[7]
William G. Thomas III	1991, 1995	M.A., Ph.D	History professor at theUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow	^[8]
Richard E. Wagner	1966	Ph.D	Professor emeritus ofeconomics atGeorge Mason University
John C. White	1998	Col	Louisiana Superintendent of Education	^[9]
William Wulf	1966	Graduate	President of theNational Academy of Engineering, designer ofBLISS programming language

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability
Robert Llewellyn	1968	Engineering Science	Photographer
Georgia O'Keeffe		Non-degreed	Painter
Nelson Saiers	1997, 1998	Col, Graduate	Artist and hedge fund manager

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Lee Ainslie	1986	Col	founder and managing partner ofMaverick Capital	^[10]
Eric C. Anderson	1996	Engineering	President and CEO, co-founder,Space Adventures
David T. Beers	1975	Col	Special Adviser to the Governor of theBank of Canada, former head of sovereign credit ratings,Standard & Poor's	^[11]
Alfred Berkeley	1966	Col	President,NASDAQ Stock Exchange
John H. Bryan	1960	Darden	CEO and Chairman ofSara Lee
Algernon S. Buford	1850	Law	President,Richmond and Danville Railroad
W. Graham Claytor Jr.	1933	Col	President,Southern Railway andAmtrak; andU.S. Secretary of the Navy
George David	1967	Darden	Chairman and CEO,United Technologies Corporation
William A. Hawkins	1982	Darden	CEO, Medtronic Corp.
Steve Huffman	2005	Engineering	Co-founder ofReddit
Bob Hugin	1985	Darden	Chair ofCelgene
Mansoor Ijaz	1983	Col	Founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd
Paul Tudor Jones	1976	Col	President and founder,Tudor Investment Corporation and theRobin Hood Foundation
Stephen P. Joyce	1982	Comm	President and CEO ofChoice Hotels as well as CEO ofDine Brands Global
Randal J. Kirk	1979	Law	Founder and Chairman, New River Pharmaceutical;	^[12]
Alan Lafley		non-degreed	CEO, Chairman of the Board,Procter & Gamble
Meredith Kopit Levien	1993	Col	President and Chief Executive Officer ofThe New York Times Company
Alexander F. Mathews	1856	Graduate	President and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte	^[13]
Halsey Minor	1987	Col	Co-founder and former CEO,CNET Inc.
Daniel Mudd	1980	Col	CEO,Fannie Mae
Tammy Murphy	1987	Col	Analyst, associate, and project lead atGoldman Sachs
William Nelson Page		Non-degreed	Co-founder of theVirginian Railway
Charlie Papazian	1972	BS Nuclear Engineering	founder of the Association of Brewers and theGreat American Beer Festival,
Michelle Nunn	1989	Col	CEO,Points of Light and President ofCare International USA
Alexis Ohanian	2005	Comm	Co-founder ofReddit
Steven Reinemund	1978	Darden	Chairman and CEO,PepsiCo Inc.
Mendel Rosenblum	1984	Col	Co-founder ofVMware
Julio Mario Santo Domingo	1948	Col	Colombian businessman, billionaire
Sheridan Snyder	1958	Col	entrepreneur and philanthropist
Samuel Spencer	1868	Engineering	President,Southern Railway
Mark B. Templeton	1978	Darden	President and CEO,Citrix Systems
Jaffray Woodriff	1991	Comm	CEO and co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM)
Robert R. Young		Non-degreed	Chairman of the Board,C&O Railroad

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Robert Aldrich		Non-degreed	film director, writer, and producer ofThe Dirty Dozen
Will Anderson	2008	Col	lead singer of the pop-rock bandParachute
Krystal Ball	2003	Col	Anchor onMSNBC'sThe Cycle
David Berman	1989	Col	Lead singer ofindi-rock bandSilver Jews
John Brenkus	1993	Col	Host,ESPN'sSports Science	^[14]
Margaret Brennan	2002	Col	Bloomberg TV anchor,In Business with Margaret Brennan	^[15]
Edward Brophy		Col	Actor
Coran Capshaw	1983	Col	founder, Red Light Management; manager of theDave Matthews Band,Faith Hill, andAlicia Keys
Tom Cora		Col	avant-garde cellist and composer
Katie Couric	1979	Col	anchor ofCBS Evening News; former host ofNBC'sThe Today Show	^[16]
John Dickerson	1991	Col	Anchor ofCBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson
Deidre Downs		Non-degreed	Miss America 2005
Kimberly Dozier	1993	Graduate	Reporter forCBS News	^[17]
Sarah Drew	2002	Col	actress,Grey's Anatomy
Tina Fey	1992	Col	creator, writer, producer and actress,30 Rock; former head writer, actress,Saturday Night Live	^[18]
Schuyler Fisk	2004	Col	singer/songwriter
Bob Gazzale	1987	Col	President,American Film Institute	^[19]^[20]
Jason George	1994	Col	Actor
Brennan Gilmore	2001	Col	bluegrass musician
Richard Glatzer	1975	Graduate	film director, producer, writer,Still Alice,The Fluffer, andQuinceañera	^[21]
Ann Hould -Ward	1978	Graduate	Broadway costume designer,Tony Award recipient
Brit Hume	1965	Col	managing editor,Fox News
Laura Ingraham	1991	Law	Conservative talk show host	^[22]
Mark Johnson	1971	Col	film producer,Rain Man,Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia;Academy Award recipient	^[23]
Jen Lilley	2007	Col	actress,General Hospital,Days of Our Lives,The Artist
Jessica Lynch	2000	Col	Miss New York 2003	^[24]
Tyler Mathisen	1976	Col	co-anchor,Power Lunch; Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives,CNBC	^[25]
Rod MacDonald	1970	Col	singer/songwriter
Stephen Malkmus	1988	Col	lead singer ofindie-rock bandPavement
Benjamin McKenzie	2001	Col	actor,Fox'sThe O.C.
PES	1995	Col	director, filmmaker, director of Oscar-nominated short filmFresh Guacamole
Ed Romanoff		BA Communication	singer-songwriter	^[26]
Andrew Scheinman	1973	Law	TV producer,Seinfeld;Emmy Award recipient
Teddy Sears	1999	Col	actor,Masters of Sex
Tom Shadyac	1981	Col	director,Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,Patch Adams,Bruce Almighty
Melissa Stark	1995	Col	reporter,ESPN andABC'sMonday Night Football
Skipp Sudduth	1983	Graduate	actor
Boyd Tinsley			violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals forDave Matthews Band
Sean Patrick Thomas	1993	Col	actor
Dylan Walsh	1986	Col	actor,Nip/Tuck
Whitney Wegman-Wood		MFA	actress,Kung Fu Ghost; screenwriter,The Last Butterflies
Stan Winston	1968	Col	Special effects expert, four-time Academy Award recipient
Paul Junger Witt	1963	Col	Emmy Award recipient; producer,Dead Poets Society; TV producer,The Golden Girls,The Partridge Family,Soap,Benson, andBlossom	^[27]^[28]
Vern Yip	1990	Col	interior designer,HGTV home improvement personality	^[29]
Sasheer Zamata	2006	Col	actor,Saturday Night Live

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability
Danny Avula		Col	Richmond-Henrico Health District Commissioner; Commissioner of Social Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Mayor ofRichmond, Virginia
Gina Bennett			Central Intelligence Agency Terrorism Senior Targeting Analyst and Senior Advisor for the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning at theNational Counterterrorism Center
Mortimer Caplin	1940	Law	Internal Revenue Service commissioner
James Laurence Cabell	1833		President ofNational Board of Health
James W. Carroll	1985	Col	Director of theOffice of National Drug Control Policy
Paul Ilyinsky	1953	Col	Three-term mayor ofPalm Beach, Florida. American descendant of Russian royalty
Robert Mueller	1974	Law	Director of theFederal Bureau of Investigation
Paul Craig Roberts		Ph.D.	Undersecretary of the Treasury
Thomas A. Scully	1979	Col	Administrator of theCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services
William A. Welch	1886	Graduate	General manager of thePalisades Interstate Park Commission
Walter Wyatt	1917	Law	General Counsel,Federal Reserve System

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Nathan L. Bachman	1903	Law	Justice,Tennessee Supreme Court; U.S. Senator,Tennessee	^[30]
Millard F. Caldwell	1924	Law	State Supreme Court Justice,Florida; Governor,U.S. Congressman	^[31]
Ken Cuccinelli	1990	BS Mechanical Engineering	Attorney General of Virginia
Collins Denny Jr.	1924	Law	Pro-segregationist lawyer in Virginia	^[32]
Thomas Watt Gregory	1884	Law	Attorney General of the United States
Mark Herring	1986	Graduate	Attorney General of Virginia, member of theSenate of Virginia	^[33]
Howell Edmunds Jackson	1854	Graduate	Justice,United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator ofTennessee	^[34]
Robert F. Kennedy	1951	Law	U.S. Senator,New York;1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General
Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.,	1988	Law	Missouri Supreme Court Justice
James Clark McReynolds	1884	Law	Justice, United States Supreme Court	^[35]
Andy Oldham	2001	Col	Judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Ken Paxton	1991	Law	Attorney General of Texas
Stanley Forman Reed	1908	Law	Justice, United States Supreme Court;United States Solicitor General	^[36]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	1982	Law	Chief prosecuting attorney,Riverkeeper; chairman,Waterkeeper Alliance; co-host ofRing of Fire, 26thUnited States Secretary of Health and Human Services	^[37]
Thomas Davis Ranson	1868	Law	Virginian lawyer and businessperson, veteran Capt. of theConfederate States Army serving under Gen.Stonewall Jackson	^[38]
Chuck Rosenberg	1990	Law	United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia and Southern District of Texas; former Counsel to the FBI Director; Counselor to the US Attorney General
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow	1835	Law	Missouri Attorney General andBorder Ruffian
William M. Walton	1851	Law	Attorney General of Texas
Sheldon Whitehouse	1982	Law	Attorney General of Rhode Island, United States Senator fromRhode Island

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Corban Addison	2004	Law	author ofA Walk Across the Sun
Susanne Antonetta	1989	MFA	poet and author
Taylor Antrim	2004	MFA	Novelist
Amy Argetsinger	1990	Col	Writer and editor at theWashington Post
Louis Auchincloss	1941	Law	Novelist, lawyer,National Book Award for Fiction finalist
David Baldacci	1986	Law	novelistMemory Man,The Camel Club,Total Control
Fred Barnes	1965	Col	editor,The Weekly Standard
Sandra Beasley	2002	Col	Poet and writer, 2009Barnard Women Poets Prize
David Blight	2020	Col	Pulitzer Prize winner in history forFrederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Jamelle Bouie	2009	Col	Columnist for theNew York Times,Forbes 30 under 30 2015
Paul Bowles		Non-degreed	Novelist, travel writer, composer, author ofThe Sheltering Sky,Up Above the World
Michael P. Branch		MA, Ph.D	ecocritic, writer, and activist
William Cabell Bruce	1880	Col	1918Pulitzer Prize winner in biography
Oni Buchanan	1997	Col	Poet,National Poetry Series winner 2007
Erskine Caldwell		Non-degreed	novelist, author ofTobacco Road
Virginius Dabney		Col	Editor ofRichmond Times Dispatch, author,Pulitzer Prize winner
Kyle Dargan	2002	Col	Poet, 2019Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Laura Dave	2003	MFA	NovelistThe Last Thing He Told Me
Philip F. Deaver	1978	Graduate	writer and poet
Lane DeGregor	1989, 1995	Col, Graduate	Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Heather Derr-Smith	1995	Col	poet
Tyler Drumheller	1974	Col	pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author ofOn the Brink
Claudia Emerson	1979	Col	2006Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry,Poet Laureate 2008 of Virginia
Emma Copley Eisenberg	2014	MFA	author ofThe Third Rainbow Girl
Linda Fairstein	1972	Law	prosecutor of sex crimes inManhattan and best-selling author of crime novels
Richard Foerster	1972	Col	poet
Thomas Frank	1987	Col	founder and editor,The Baffler
William Fuller	1983	Ph.D.	poet; senior vice president andchief fiduciary officer ofNorthern Trust Corporation	^[39]
Ted Genoways	1999	MFA	Writer, journalist, author
Emily Giffin	1997	Law	chick lit author
W. Douglas Gordon	1898	Law	editorNorfolk Ledger-Dispatch andRichmond Times-Dispatch
David M. Granger	1981	Graduate	editor-in-chief ofEsquire	^[40]^[41]
Julien Green	1922	Col	a major figure of French literature of the 20th century
Chad Harbach	2004	MFA	novelist, author ofThe Art of Fielding
Vashti Harrison	2010	Col	Children's book writer, illustrator, filmmaker, and illustrator ofSulwe
Bernard Holland		Col	former chief music critic forThe New York Times
Philip K. Howard	1974	Law	writer, author ofLife without Lawyers
Edward P. Jones	1981	Graduate	author, winner of 2004Pulitzer Prize for fiction,MacArthur Fellow
Mary Beth Keane	2005	MFA	Novelist
Jack T. Kirby		MA, Ph.D	historian of theSouthern United States, awarded theBancroft Prize for his 2006 bookMockingbird Song	^[42]
Melissa Kirsch	1996	Col	author, assistant editor, culture and lifestyle atNew York Times
Christina Baker Kline	1990	MFA	Novelist
Jeb Livingood	2000	MFA	Poet
Emma Lord	2012	Col	author
Rich Lowry	1990	Col	editor-in-chief,National Review
Erika Meitner		MFA, MA	Poet,National Book Award Finalist 2018 for poetry
Daniel Mendelsohn	1982	Col	Writer and columnist, author ofThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, professor atBard College
Lulu Miller	2013	MFA	Writer andPeabody Award winning science reporter forNPR
Robert Miskimon		Non-degreed	novelist, journalist, poet
Adam Mitzner	1989	Law	Novelist, recipient of theSilver Gavel Awards
Arthur D. Morse			print and television journalist, and author ofWhile Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy
David Nolan	1967	Col	author and historian
Nikki Ogunnaike	2007	Col	Editor in chief ofMarie Claire, former senior digital director ofHarper's Bazaar	^[43]^[44]^[45]
Breece D'J Pancake		Non-degreed	short-story writer
Kiki Petrosino	2001	Col	Poet
Hannah Pittard	2007	MFA	Novelist
Edgar Allan Poe		Non-degreed	Poet, "father of gothic literature", author ofThe Raven,The Tell-Tale Heart
Sarah Posner	1990	Law	Writer and journalist
Will Shortz	1977	Law	editor ofThe New York Times crossword puzzle
Safiya Sinclair	2014	MFA	Poet
Jens Söring		Non-degreed	Autobiographer and writer of social issues, convicted murderer without parole
Lisa Russ Spaar	1978, 1982	Col, MFA	Poet,Pushcart Prize,Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts, professor atUniversity of Virginia
William Force Stead	1905	Col	Poet andchaplain ofWorcester College, Oxford
Darcey Steinke		MFA	author
Sheryl Gay Stolberg	1983	Col	Journalist for theNew York Times
Ron Suskind	1981	Col	Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
Aoibheann Sweeney	2000	MGA	Novelist, author ofAmong Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
Henry S. Taylor	1964	Col	novelist, 1986Pulitzer Prize for PoetryThe Flying Change
Evan Thomas	1977	Law	author, journalist, historian, editor atNewsweek, author ofThe Wise Men
Samantha Thornhill	2004	MFA	Poet
Jia Tolentino	2009	Col	Writer and editor, author ofTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, staff writer atThe New Yorker
Michael Vitez	1979	Col	staff writer,The Philadelphia Inquirer,Pulitzer Prize winner
Helen Wan	1998	Law	novelist, lawyer, author ofPartner Track
Tia Williams	1997	Col	novelist, editor
Theodore Wong	Did not graduate		Translator^[46]
Jenna Wortham,	2004	Col	author and journalist, culture writer at theNew York Times,Black Futures

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability
Rupert Blue	1890	Co	Surgeon General of the United States
S. Ward Casscells	1939	Medicine	Pioneering orthopedic surgeon, who introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States
Francis Collins	1970	Col	Director of theHuman Genome Project and past director,National Institute of Health
Lisa L. Cunningham		Ph.D.	National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientific director,
Hugh S. Cumming	1893	Medicine	Surgeon General of the United States
David John Doukas	1975	Col	Clinical bioethics scholar, family physician
J. Hartwell Harrison	1932	Medicine	Pioneering kidney transplant surgeon
Charles T. Pepper	1855	Medicine	Physician who surgeon who was the original "Dr. Pepper" according to theDr Pepper Company
Vivian Pinn	1967	Medicine	Former associate director for research on women's health at theNational Institutes of Health
Walter Reed	1869	Medicine	Medical researcher and discovered transmission ofyellow fever
Beverly R. Wellford	1816	Medicine	Sixth president of theAmerican Medical Association
Hugh H. Young	1891	Medicine	Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Fernando Bolivar			Venezuelan military, nephew of GeneralSimon Bolivar
Richard E. Byrd		non-degreed	Naval officer, pioneering American aviator, polar explorer	^[47]
W. Graham Claytor Jr.	1933	Col	U.S. Secretary of the Navy; President,Southern Railway andAmtrak
Philip St. George Cocke	1828		Brigadier general in theConfederate States Army during theAmerican Civil War
Hilary A. Herbert	1855	Law	Secretary of the Navy
Eppa Hunton	1843	Law	CSA Brigadier General;U.S. Congressman andU.S. Senator,Virginia
Robert Magnus	1969	Col	United States Marine Corps four-star general
John B. Magruder		non-degreed	Confederate Army general during the Civil War
John Morgan	1972	Col	Vice Admiral in theUnited States Navy
John S. Mosby	Attended 1850-1853		Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in theAmerican Civil War.
Charles Pede	1984, 1987	Col, Law	United States Armylieutenant general,Judge Advocate General of the United States Army
William Pegram		Law	Artillery officer in theConfederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
Carnot Posey		Law	Confederate general in the American Civil War
George W. Randolph	1842	Law	Confederate States Secretary of War
James Seddon	1836	Graduate	4th Confederate States Secretary of War
Alexander Vandegrift	Attended 1906-1908	Col	Commandant of the Marine Corps,Medal of Honor recipient

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Yasushi Akashi	1956	Graduate	Chairman, International House of Japan; former Undersecretary of theUnited Nations	^[48]^[49]
George Allen	1974, 1977	Col, Law	Governor andU.S. Senator,Virginia	^[50]
Hanan Ashrawi	1982	Graduate	Official Spokesperson of thePalestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process	^[51]
Nathan L. Bachman	1903	Law	U.S. Senator,Tennessee; Justice,Tennessee Supreme Court	^[30]
Alben W. Barkley	1900	Law	35thVice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator,Kentucky	^[52]
Evan Bayh	1981	Law	U.S. Senator and Governor,Indiana	^[53]
Andy Beshear	2005	Law	Governor of Kentucky
Kit Bond	1963	Law	U.S. Senator,Missouri
Alan Stephenson Boyd	1948	Law	firstUnited States Secretary of Transportation
Harry F. Byrd Jr.	1936	Law	U.S. Senator,Virginia
Millard F. Caldwell	1924	Law	Governor,U.S. Congressman, and State Supreme Court Justice,Florida	^[31]
Greg Casar	2012	Col	U.S. Congressman, Texas
James Paul Clarke	1878	Law	United States Senator and the18th Governor of Arkansas	^[54]^[55]
John Cornyn	1995	Law	U.S. Senator,Texas
Joseph T. Curry			member of theLouisiana House of Representatives	^[56]
William H. Daingerfield	1829	Col	2ndMayor of San Antonio; Ambassador
Henry Winter Davis	1841	Law	outspokenRadical Republican;U.S. Congressman,Maryland
Mary DeRosa	1981	Col	former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in theObama Administration
Hasjim Djala	1959	Law	Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; chairman and president of theInternational Seabed Authority	^[57]^[58]^[59]^[60]
Joseph T. Doyle	1990	Graduate	Pennsylvania State Representative
William A. Eaton	1978	Col	United States Ambassador to Panama, United StatesAssistant Secretary of State
Paul Erickson	1988	Law	political consultant
William Stamps Farish III	1962	Col	U.S. ambassador to theUnited Kingdom	^[61]
William Meade Fishback	1855	Law	17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator,Arkansas	^[62]
Luis Fortuño	1985	Law	Governor of Puerto Rico
Michael E. Guest	1981	Graduate	U.S. Ambassador toRomania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by theU.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. Ambassador	^[63]
Barbara Halliday			Mayor ofHayward, California
Mark Herring	1986	Graduate	Attorney General of Virginia, member of theSenate of Virginia	^[33]
Yan Huiqing	1900	Col	Premier andPrime Minister of theRepublic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Chinese Ambassador to theSoviet Union; Chinese Representative in theLeague of Nations	^[64]
Robert M. T. Hunter	1829	Col	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives andU.S. Senator,Virginia
Eppa Hunton	1843	Law	CSA Brigadier General;U.S. Congressman andU.S. Senator,Virginia
Louis A. Johnson	1913	Law	SecondUnited States Secretary of Defense
Brereton Jones	1961	Communication	Governor ofKentucky
John Kennedy	1977	Law	U.S. Senator,Louisiana, State Treasurer of Louisiana
Robert F. Kennedy	1951	Law	U.S. Senator,New York;1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General
Ted Kennedy	1959	Law	U.S. Senator,Massachusetts
Angus King	1969	Law	72nd Governor ofMaine, United States Senator from Maine
William Preston Lane Jr.	1915	Law	Governor,Maryland
J. Hamilton Lewis			U.S. Senator,Illinois and firstWhip
Sean Patrick Maloney	1988, 1992	Col, Law	U.S. Congressman,New York's 18th congressional district and formerWhite House Office of the Staff Secretary
Thurgood Marshall Jr.	1978, 1981	Col, Law	FormerWhite House Cabinet Secretary
Roy Martin		Commerce	Mayor ofNorfolk, Virginia (1962 –1974), 31stPresident of the United States Conference of Mayors
Henry M. Mathews	1856	Graduate	Governor of West Virginia
Jennifer McClellan	1997	Law	U.S. Congresswoman,Virginia's 4th congressional district
Samuel D. McEnery	1857	Col	Governor and U.S. Senator forLouisiana United States House of Representatives
Ana Montes	1979	Col	convicted Cuban spy
Janet Napolitano	1983	Law	Governor ofArizona,Secretary of Homeland Security, President of theUniversity of California System	^[65]
Bill Nelson	1968	Law	U.S. Senator,Florida; NASA astronaut
Kirstjen Nielsen	1999	Law	6thSecretary of theUnited States Department of Homeland Security	^[66]
Longin Pastusiak	1959	Graduate	Marshall of the Senate,Poland
Thomas Caute Reynolds	1838	Law	11thLieutenant Governor of Missouri; Governor ofMissouri (Confederate)	^[67]
Chuck Robb	1973	Law	Governor of Virginia andU.S. Senator
Joseph T. Robinson	1895	Law	Governor of Arkansas andUnited States Senate Majority Leader
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.	1940	Law	U.S. Congressman,New York
Chip Roy	1994	Commerce	U.S. Congressman,Texas's 21st congressional district
Mark Sanford	1988	Darden	Governor of South Carolina
Eugene Scalia	1985	Col	28thUnited States Secretary of Labor
Faryar Shirzad	1992	Law	Advisor to United States PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Marc Short	2004	Darden	White House Director of Legislative Affairs
Michael Signer		Law	Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia	^[68]
John W. Snow	1965	Graduate	United States Secretary of the Treasury
Javier Solana	1968	Graduate	Spanish formerSecretary General of theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization and previousEuropean Union foreign policy chief
Richard B. Spencer	2001	Col	Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder ofAlternativeRight.com, President and director of theNational Policy Institute^[69]
William B. Spong Jr.	1947	Law	U.S. Senator, Virginia
John C. Stennis	1928	Law	U.S. Senator,Mississippi
Edward Stettinius Jr.	1924	Col	United States Secretary of State
Robert M. Switzer		Law	United States Representative	^[70]
Charles L. Terry Jr.	1922	Col	Governor of Delaware
Robert Toombs	1830	Law	U.S. Senator,Georgia
John V. Tunney	1959	Law	U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator,California
Thomas B. Turley	1867	Law	U.S. Senator,Tennessee
John Warner	1953	Law	U.S. Senator, Virginia
Mac Warner	1991	Law	Secretary of State of West Virginia
Lowell P. Weicker Jr.	1957	Law	Governor of Connecticut, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Senator
Kevin Whitaker	1979	Col	United States Ambassador to Colombia
Sheldon Whitehouse	1982	Law	United States Senator fromRhode Island,Attorney General of Rhode Island
John Sharp Williams	1876	Law	Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
Wayne W. Williams	1989	Law	Secretary of State of Colorado
Woodrow Wilson		Non-degreed	28th President of theUnited States
Abigail Spangberger	2001	Col	U.S. Congresswoman,Virginia	^[71]

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability
Charles Augustus Briggs	1860	Col	Hebrew scholar and theologian
Lloyd R. Craighill			Second Bishop of Anking, China
Carl P. Daw Jr.		MA, Ph.D	executive director of theHymn Society in the United States and Canada
Collins Denny		Graduate	Bishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church, South (1910–1939)
James Addison Ingle	1885, 1888	BA, MA	first bishop of the Missionary District of Hankow, China
J. William Jones	1859		Confederate chaplain, campus minister, Christian author

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
John Backus		Non-degreed	Inventor of firsthigh-level programming language,FORTRAN, and recipient of the 1977A.M. Turing Award
Daniel Barringer	1888	Graduate	proved the existence of meteorites on Earth (Barringer Meteorite Crater)
Jesse Beams	1926	Graduate	one of five primary physicists selected for theManhattan Project, pioneer ofultracentrifuge
Norman L. Crabill	1957	Master of Aeronautical Engineering	Engineer, inventor, author
Heber Doust Curtis	1902	Graduate	Astronomer who participated in the "Great Debate" withHarlow Shapley, 1920
Patrick G. Forrester	1989	Graduate	NASA astronaut	^[72]
Matthew P. Hardy	1985	Ph.D.Biology	Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions inLeydig cell differentiation and function	^[73]
Karl G. Henize	1947, 1948	Col, Graduate	Astronomer; NASA astronaut	^[72]
Thomas Marshburn	1984	Engineering	NASA astronaut	^[72]
Janet Akyüz Mattei	1972	Graduate	astronomer; director, theAmerican Association of Variable Star Observers
Leland Melvin	1991	Engineering	NASA astronaut	^[72]
Bill Nelson	1968	Law	NASA astronaut;U.S. Senator,Florida	^[72]
Edward P. Ney	1946	Ph.D	astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei
Haller Nutt		Non-degreed	Developer of the Egypto-Mexican cotton hybrid
Charles Pollard Olivier	1911	Graduate	astronomer; founder,American Meteor Society
Gregory Olsen	1971	Graduate	third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to theInternational Space Station	^[72]
Phil Plait	1994	Graduate	author ofBad Astronomy andBad Astronomy blog
Kathryn C. Thornton	1977, 1979	Graduate	NASA astronaut	^[72]
Ann M. Valentine	1993	BS	inorganic chemist
Alexander N. Vyssotsky	1927	Graduate	Astronomer; catalogedMilky Way M dwarf stars
Thomas W. Whitaker	1929, 1931	MS, Ph.D	Botanist and horticulturist
Jeff Wisoff	1980	Col	NASA astronaut; engineering professor atRice University	^[72]
Ralph Elmer Wilson	1910	Graduate	Astronomer;Wilson crater on theMoon was co-named after him
Carl A. Wirtanen	1939	Graduate	Astronomer; discovered a number ofasteroids andcomets
Wesley L Harris	1964	Engineering	Professor atMIT; Vice President ofNational Academy of Engineering	^[74]

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Val Ackerman	1981	Col	Founder and former president ofWNBA, and current commissioner of theBig East Conference
Jeff Agoos	1990		Swiss–born American soccer defender
Cory Alexander	1995	Col	Professional basketball player with the NBA	^[75]
Darion Atkins	2015		Professional basketball player forHapoel Holon of theIsraeli Basketball Premier League
Ronde Barber	1996	Communication	Professional football player withTampa Bay Buccaneers	^[76]
Tiki Barber	1997	Communication	Professional football player with theNew York Giants; current sportscaster
Morgan Gautrat	2014		Professional soccer player and member of the US Women's National Soccer Team
Malcolm Brogdon	2016		Professional basketball player with theWashington Wizards	^[77]
Heather Burge			Professional basketball player with theWNBA	^[78]
Heidi Burge	1993	Col	Professional basketball player with theWNBA	^[78]
Chris Canty	2004	Col	Professional football player	^[79]
Rick Carlisle	1984	Col	Professional football player; current head coach,Dallas Mavericks
John Choma	1970		Professional football player with theSan Francisco 49ers
Casey Crawford			Professional football player
Mike Cubbage			Professional baseball player and manager
Virginius Dabney			College football player and coach
Somdev Devvarman	2008	Col	Professional tennis player
Bill Dudley	1942	Education	Professional football player and NFLHall of Fame
Mamadi Diakite	2020		Professional basketball player	^[80]
Daryl Dike			Professional soccer player andU.S. men's national team player
Jeffrey Eggleston	2007		long-distance runner
Carlton Elliott			Professional football layer with theGreen Bay Packers
Alecko Eskandarian		Col	Major League Soccer #1 overall draft pick, player withD.C. United andU.S. national team
Paul Ereng	1993	Col	1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters
D'Brickashaw Ferguson	2006	Col	Professional football player with theNew York Jets
Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.			Professional basketball player	^[81]
Tim Finchem	1973		Commissioner of thePGA Tour
Jake Gelof			Professional baseball player
Zack Gelof			Professional baseball player
Conor Gill	2002	Col	Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award; 2002
Robert Kent Gooch			College football player
Jim Grobe	1975, 1978		Head coach ofthe Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
Al Groh	1967	Communications	Former head coach ofNew York Jets, former head coach ofVirginia football team
Margaret Groos			1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon winner; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters
Kyle Guy			Professional basketball player with theSacramento Kings	^[82]
Brandon Guyer			Professional baseball player with theTampa Bay Rays
Darryl Hammond	1988	Col	ProfessionalArena Football League player
John Harkes			Professional soccer player and coach
Joe Harris	2014		Professional basketball player	^[83]
DeAndre Hunter			Professional basketball playerAtlanta Hawks	^[84]

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Jason Kessler	2009	Col	Neo-Nazi,white supremacist
Ginnie Sebastian Storage		BA	47th President General of theDaughters of the American Revolution	^[91]
Otto Warmbier			College student imprisoned inNorth Korea in 2016 on a charge ofsubversion

Name	Field	UVA position	Notability	References
Henry J. Abraham	Political Science	James Hart Professor of Government	scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law	^[92]
Bruce Arena	Soccer	Head men's soccer coach	coached the Virginia Cavaliers to five NCAA championships; head coach of the US national men's soccer team;
Silvia Blemker	Biomedical Engineering	Professor	Professor of biomechanical engineering and also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Springbok Analytics
Julian Bond	History	Professor	Founder of theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; co-founder and first president of theSouthern Poverty Law Center
John Bonvllian	Psychology	Associate professor	Pioneer in the field ofaugmentative and alternative communication	^[93]
Anna Brickhouse	American Studies	Department director
James M. Buchanan	Economics		Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986
Lester J. Cappon	History	Archivist and professor	Archivist forColonial Williamsburg, Inc.
Meredith Clark	Media Studies	Assistant professor	Expert onBlack Twitter
Ronald Coase	Economics		Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991	^[94]
Martha Derthick	Public Administration	Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs	Consummate authority on theSocial Security Administration
Robert E. Emery	Psychology	Professor and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law		^[95]
William Faulkner	English	Writer in residence	Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949;Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962	^[96]
Elmer L. Gaden	Biochemistry	Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering	Known as "the father of biochemical engineering".
Alfred G. Gilman	Pharmacology	Assistant professor	1994Nobel Prize in Physiology
Larycia Hawkins	Political Science	Associate professor in religious studies and political science		^[97]
Matthew Holden	Political Science	Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics	former president of theAmerican Political Science Association; former Commissioner of theFederal Energy Regulatory Commission,Public Service Commission of Wisconsin	^[98]
Thomas M. Humphrey	Economy		Economist for theFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Milton W. Humphreys	Latin and Greek	Professor
Patricia Jennings	Education	Professor
David C. Jordan	Political Science	Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics	United States Ambassador toPeru	^[99]
Robert S. Kemp	Business	Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce		^[100]
Charles W. Kent	English	Professor
W. A. Lambeth	Medicine	Professor and athletic director	Firstathletic director at UVA
Jennifer L. Lawless	Political Science	Commonwealth Professor of Politics; faculty affiliate of theFrank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy		^[101]
Angeline Stoll Lillard	Psychology	Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor		^[102]
Dumas Malone	History	Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History	Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volumeJefferson and His Time
Barry Marshall	Medicine		2005Nobel Prize in Physiology
Ferid Murad	Biochemstiry, Pharmacology	Professor; Director, Clinical Research Center; and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine	1998Nobel Prize in Physiology
Edward P. Ney	Physics	Assistant Professor	Made major contributions tocosmic ray research, atmospheric physics,heliophysics, andinfrared astronomy	^[5]
Brian Nosek	Psychology	Professor		^[103]
Ken Ono	Mathematics	Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics	Expert onNumber Theory andSrinivasa Ramanujan
Charlotte Patterson	Psychology	Professor and Director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program	Specialist in the psychology of sexual orientation	^[104]
Andrea L. Press	Media Studies and Sociology	William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology
William B. Quandt	Political Science	Professor in the Department of Politics	Member of theNational Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to theCamp David Accords and theEgypt–Israel peace treaty	^[105]
William Barton Rogers	Philosophy	Department head and faculty	FoundedMIT and became its first president
Richard Rorty	Philosophy	Kenan Professor of Humanities	influential writer	^[106]
Larry Sabato	Political Science	Professor of politics; founder and director of theCenter for Politics	Named the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by theWall Street Journal	^[107]
James D. Savage	Political Science	Professor of politics; Faculty Affiliate of theBatten School	Author and specialist incomparative budgetary,fiscal, andmacroeconomic policy	^[108]
Antonin Scalia	Law	Professor	Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States	^[109]
Natasha Sheybani	Biomedical Engineering	Assistant professor	First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award
William D. Spotnitz	Medicine	Cardiothoracic surgeon,University of Virginia Health System	Researcher in the use offibrin glue	^[110]
Herbert Stein	Economics	A. Willis Robertson Professor	Chairman of theCouncil of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon andGerald Ford
Peter Taylor	English		Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987;PEN/Malamud Award in 1993	^[111]
George Tucker	Philosophy	Professor of Moral Philosophy	Early biographer ofThomas Jefferson and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Eric Turkheimer	Psychology	Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology	Specialist in how genes and environments shape the development of human behavior	^[112]
Siva Vaidhyanathan	Media Studies	Robertson professor of Media Studies	Permanent columnist atThe Guardian andSlate
Jerry White	Business Administration	Professor of Practice; Adjunct faculty of the Politics Department	CEO of Global Impact Strategies Inc.; co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize	^[113]
Bruce A. Williams	Media Studies	Professor of Media Studies
Stephen K. White	Political Science	James Hart Professor of Politics		^[114]
Daniel T. Willingham	Psychology	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies	Specialist in cognition related to K –12 education	^[115]
Timothy Wilson	Psychology	Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology	Author of popular books	^[116]
Tibor Wlassics	Italian	Kenan Professor of Italian Studies	Research on the poetDante Alighieri	^[117]
Brantly Womack	Political Science	Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs		^[118]

Movatterモバイル変換

Alumni

Academics and education

Art and architecture

Business

Entertainment

Government

Law

Literature and journalism

Medicine

Military

Politics

Religion

Science and technology

Sports

Other

Notable faculty and staff

Rectors and members of the board of visitors

See also

References

External links