This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes current students, former students, and graduates of Florida Atlantic University. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded degrees to over 185,000 alumni.
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Azeez Al-Shaair | Professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers |
| Brandin Bryant | Professional football player for the Buffalo Bills |
| Harrison Bryant | 2019 John Mackey Award Winner and 2019 Unanimous All-American; professional football player for the Cleveland Browns |
| Trevon Coley | Professional football player for the New York Jets |
| John Franklin III | Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, featured in the Netflix documentary series Last Chance U |
| Trey Hendrickson | Professional football player for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Greg Joseph | Professional football player for the Minnesota Vikings |
| Mike Lockley | Former professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Herb Miller | Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| Alfred Morris | Professional football player who is currently a free agent |
| Sharrod Neasman | Professional football player for the New York Jets |
| Ed Newman | National Football League All-Pro football player |
| James Pierre, Jr | Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Keith Reaser | Professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| Devin "Motor" Singletary | Professional football player for the Buffalo Bills |
| Rashard Smith | Professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| Rusty Smith | Former professional football player for the Tennessee Titans; inducted into the FAU Hall of Fame in 2019 |
| Adarius (Glanton) Taylor | Professional football player for the Carolina Panthers |
| Brandon Walton | Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Lucky Whitehead | Former professional football player for the New York Jets |
| Kerrith Whyte | Professional football player who is currently a free agent |
| Trevardo Williams | Profession football player who is currently a free agent |
| Trevardo Williams | Profession football player who is currently a free agent |
See also: Major League Baseball.
| Athlete | Notability | |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen Cali | Professional MLB pitcher[1] | |
| Professional MLB outfielder[2] | ||
| Tim Harikkala | Professional MLB pitcher[3] | |
| David McKay | Professional MLB pitcher | |
| Tommy Murphy | Professional MLB outfielder[4] | |
| Professional MLB outfielder[5] | ||
| Cody Wilson | Professional MLB outfielder |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Colombian-born Israeli Olympic show jumping rider | |
| Brittany Bowe | Team USA Olympic long track speedskater medalist; 1,000-meter world record holder |
| Yolanda Griffith | Professional basketball player in the WNBA[7] |
| Fern "Peachy" Kellymeyer (M.A. 1974) | Professional tennis player, administrator, and 1999 ITA Hall of Fame inductee[8] |
| Ben Silverman | Professional golfer |
| Tecia Torres | Professional mixed martial artist, current UFC strawweight[9] |
| Max von Schlebrügge | Professional soccer player with 10 caps for the Sweden national team |
| Aleksandar Zečević | Serbian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Rafael "Ralph" de la Vega(B.S. 1974) | Former Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions and AT&T International |
| Mark Dean (M.S.E.E. 1982) | Engineering Professor at the University of Tennessee; Co-developer of the IBM PC; former Vice President of the Technical Strategy and Worldwide Operations, IBM Research[10] |
| Richard DiMarchi (B.S. 1974) | Former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company, and current chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University[11] |
| Dr. Arthur C. Evans(B.A. 1982, M.A. 1984) | CEO of the American Psychological Association |
| Joshua Kosoy (MBA 2015) | Former Senior Business Analyst at Royal Caribbean Group, and current Senior Business Intelligence Analyst in operations/strategy at Citrix Systems, Inc. |
| Patricia McKay (B.B.A. 1978) | Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot[12] |
| Luis Alberto Moreno (B.B.A. 1975) | 4th and current President of the Inter-American Development Bank |
| Robert "Skip" Orr (B.A. 1978) | Former President of Boeing Japan, and former Vice President of Motorola[13] |
| Maynard Webb (B.A.) | Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com, and former Chief Operating Officer, and President of Technologies for eBay[14] |
| Phil Zimmermann (B.S. 1978) | Creator of Pretty Good Privacy[15] |
| George Zoley (B.A. 1972, M.P.A. 1975) | Chairman of the Board, chief executive officer, and founder of the GEO Group, Inc., a publicly traded company that became independent from The Wackenhut Corporation[16] |
| Alumni | Notability | |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson G. Bradshaw (B.S., M.S.) | President of Florida Gulf Coast University[17] | |
| Arthur C. Brooks (M.A., 1995) | Social scientist, economist, professor, author, and professional musician | |
| Alberto "Al" Cardenas (B.A. 1969) | Attorney, Republican lobbyist, and trustee of Florida A&M[18] | |
| Keith Hamm (M.A., 1973) | ||
| George L. Hanbury (Ph.D.) | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nova Southeastern University[19] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Don Brewer (B.B.A. 1990) | Drummer and founding member of the band Grand Funk Railroad[20] |
| Chris Carrabba | Singer-songwriter, Dashboard Confessional |
| Carrot Top (real name Scott Thompson) (B.A. Marketing) | Actor and stand-up comedian[21] |
| Scott Henderson (B.A.) | Jazz, blues, and fusion guitarist, Tribal Tech[22] |
| Marc Kudisch (B.F.A. 1988) | Broadway actor and two-time Tony Award nominee[23] |
| Marlow Rosado (B.F.A. 1995) | Grammy-winning Latin music performer and composer |
| Shannon Spake (B.A. Communications) | TV reporter and sports analyst currently hosting NASCAR Race Hub[24] |
| Alumni | Notability | |
|---|---|---|
| Carrie P. Meek (Hon Ph.D.) | Former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 17th district[27] | |
| Daniel A. Mica (B.A. 1966, Hon Ph.D.) | Former U.S. Congressman, President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association[28] |
| Alumni | Notability | |
|---|---|---|
| Carol W. Hunstein (B.S. 1972) | Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia[29] | |
| Ken Jenne (B.A. 1968) | Former Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, and former state legislator[30] | |
| Henry Latimer (M.A.) | First African American circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida[31] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Judith Ortiz Cofer (M.A. 1977) | Puerto Rican author[34] |
| Kevin Crawford | Shakespeare scholar[35] |
| Charles Ghigna | Poet and children's author known as "Father Goose"[36] |
| Mirta Ojito | Cuban-born Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the New York Times and professor of journalism at the University of Miami |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Christopher McKay (B.A.) | Planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center[37] |
| Steven Swanson (M.A. 1986) | NASA astronaut[38] |