This list of University of Texas at Austin alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Texas at Austin. The institution is a major research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, US and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.[1] [2] [3] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff.[4] It currently holds the second largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.[5] Over 30 UT Austin undergraduates have served in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, such as Lloyd Bentsen '42, who served as both a U.S. senator and U.S. representative, and was the 1988 Democratic Party vice presidential nominee. Tom C. Clark, J.D. '22, served as United States attorney general from 1945 to 1949 and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967. Cabinet members of American presidents include former United States secretary of state Rex Tillerson '75, former United States secretary of state James Baker '57, former secretary of education William J. Bennett, and former secretary of commerce Donald Evans '73. First Lady Laura Bush '73 and daughter Jenna '04 both graduated from UT Austin, as well as former first lady Lady Bird Johnson '33 & '34 and her eldest daughter Lynda. In foreign governments, the university has been represented by Fernando Belaúnde Terry '36 (42nd president of Peru), and Abdullah al-Tariki (co-founder of OPEC).
UT Austin alumni in academia include the 26th president of the College of William & Mary Gene Nichol '76, the 10th president of Boston University Robert A. Brown '73 & '75, and the 8th president of the University of Southern California John R. Hubbard. The university also graduated Alan Bean '55, the fourth man to walk on the Moon. Additionally, alumni of the university who have served as business leaders include ExxonMobil Corporation former CEO Rex Tillerson '75, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, founder & CEO of Keyhole and pioneer of the successor Google Maps & Google Earth John Hanke, and CEO of Southwest Airlines Gary C. Kelly.
In literature and journalism, UT Austin has produced Pulitzer Prize winners Gail Caldwell and Ben Sargent '70, as well as CNN anchor Betty Nguyen '95. Alumnus J. M. Coetzee also received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
UT Austin has produced several musicians and entertainers. Janis Joplin, the singer who posthumously was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award attended the university, as well as February 1955 Playboy Playmate of the Month and Golden Globe recipient Jayne Mansfield. The big screen has carried the talents of actor Matthew McConaughey '93 (star of The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Sahara (2005), We Are Marshall (2007), et al.) with Farrah Fawcett (one of the original Charlie's Angels) on the small screen.
A number of UT Austin alumni have found success in professional sports. Seven-time Cy Young Award-winner Roger Clemens entered the MLB after helping the Longhorns win the 1983 College World Series. Professional basketball player and Olympic gold medalist Kevin Durant played one season with the Longhorns. Several Olympic medalists have also attended the school, including 2008 Summer Olympics athletes Ian Crocker '05 (swimming world record holder and two-time Olympic gold medalist) and 4 × 400 m relay defending Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards '06. Mary Lou Retton (the first female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, five-time Olympic medalist, and 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year) also attended the university.
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPA PhD | Eighth president of Monmouth University | [6] | |||
| 1973 1975 | BSc MSc | Tenth president of Boston University | [7] | ||
| BA, MA, PhD | Fourth president of Texas A&M-Texarkana | [8] [9] | |||
| 1984 | PhD in Community College Leadership Program | Fifth president of Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas, 1995–2007 | [10] | ||
| 1985 | JD | 13th President of Sul Ross State University | [11] [12] | ||
| 1915 | LL.B. | Former dean at the Northwestern University School of Law | [13] | ||
| 1968 | JD | Third chancellor of the Texas Tech University System; former United States representative, Texas District 19 | [14] | ||
| 1977 | PhD | Social worker, president of University of Houston–Victoria and California State University San Marcos | [15] | ||
| 1938 1939 1950 | BA MA PhD | Historian, former president of the University of Southern California | [16] | ||
| MA PhD | Computer scientist, president of Carnegie Mellon University | [17] [18] | |||
| 1931 | LL.M. | Former dean of the University of Texas School of Law | [19] | ||
| PhD | Dean of the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College | [20] | |||
| 1909 | BA | Law dean at University of North Carolina and UT; taught at Northwestern; wrote classic works on evidence and damages | [21] | ||
| 1961 1964 | B.Mus. M.Mus. | Ninth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | [22] | ||
| 1965 | BA | First chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, 1996–2001; member of the Texas State Senate from Lubbock 1983–1996; businessman in San Antonio since 2001 | [23] | ||
| 1969 | PhD | President of the University of Texas at El Paso, 1988–2019 | [24] | ||
| 1976 | JD | Former president of the College of William and Mary; former dean of the law schools at both the University of North Carolina and the University of Colorado at Boulder | |||
| PhD | President and Chief Academic Officer, Centro Escolar University, Manila, Philippines | ||||
| BSW, MSW | President of Philander Smith College, 1998–2004; president of Bethune–Cookman University, 2004–2012 | [25] | |||
| 1967 | BSc | Fifth president of the University of Texas at San Antonio; U.S. representative to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization; member of the president's Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities | [26] | ||
| PhD | Twentieth (and current) president of the University of Memphis | [27] [28] | |||
| 1980 | PhD (Zoology and Marine Science) | 16th President of University of North Texas; 9th president of University of Nevada, Las Vegas | [29] [30] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 1973 | BS PhD | Nobel Prize-winning immunologist | [31] | ||
| 1989 | PhD | Psychologist specialized in sexual orientation | [32] | ||
| 2008 | PhD | Astronomer and science communicator | [33] | ||
| 1955 | BSc | Astronaut, lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 | [34] | ||
| 1935 | BA | Mathematician | [35] | ||
| 1961 | PhD | Psychologist specializing in self and social perception; creator of the Birkman Method assessment | [36] | ||
| 1935 1938 | BA MA | Law professor at Columbia and Yale; pioneer in civil rights litigation; author of leading treatise on the law of admiralty | [37] | ||
| 1974 1977 | MA PhD | Order of the Aztec Eagle medal recipient for work in Mesoamerican art history | [38] | ||
| 1958 | PhD | Geneticist, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and University of Texas Health Science Center; president of the American Society of Human Genetics | [39] | ||
| 1967 | BA | Computer scientist, co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm | [40] | ||
| Lillian K. Bradley | 1960 | PhD | Associate professor at Texas Southern University; first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin | [41] | |
| 1966 | BA | Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington | [42] | ||
| 1989 1994 | MBA PhD | Former finance professor, Santa Clara University; President and Executive Director, Ayn Rand Institute | [43] | ||
| B.SW. | Research professor at University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work | [44] | |||
| 1978 | PhD | Physicist, leader in nonlinear dynamics, PhD student of Ilya Prigogine | [45] | ||
| Karen Butler-Purry | 1987 | MS | Professor, Texas A&M University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | [46] | |
| 1968 1973 | BSc MA | Science educator and entomologist | [47] | ||
| 1950 1961 | BA PhD | Inventor of sports drink Gatorade | [48] [49] | ||
| 1968 1972 1976 | BA MA PhD | Animal behaviorist, president of the University of Lethbridge | [50] | ||
| 1965 1967 1970 | BSc MSc PhD | Author of the textbook Digital Image Processing, president of Advanced Digital Imaging Research | [51] [52] | ||
| Almadena Chtchelkanova | 1996 | MA | Developed and implemented portable, scalable, parallel adaptive mesh generation algorithms for computational fluid dynamics, weather forecast, combustion and contaminant transport | [53] | |
| Christina Cogdell | 1991 2001 | BA PhD | Professor of Design, University of California, Davis | [54] | |
| 1960 | BSc | Pilot of STS-1, first orbital test flight of NASA Shuttle program | [55] | ||
| Mohammed Dajani Daoudi | MSc | Palestinian professor and peace activist | [56] | ||
| 1893 1894 | BSc MSc | Mathematician | [57] | ||
| 1976 | BSc | Computer scientist, A. M. Turing Award | [58] | ||
| BA MA PhD | Historian of the United States, the American West, and Texas | [59] | |||
| 1963 | BA | Heart surgeon | [60] | ||
| Jinlong Gong | 2008 | PhD | Chinese chemist | ||
| 1974 | PhD | Nurse educator | [61] | ||
| 1931 1945 | MA PhD | Influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico | [62] | ||
| Laura M. Haas | 1981 | PhD | Computer scientist; created systems for data and mapping technology | [63] | |
| 1976 1980 | MA PhD | Chair and professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago; historian and photographer specializing in contemporary art, American spaces and landscapes | [64] | ||
| 1977 | MA | Ethnolinguist | [65] | ||
| early 1940s | MS | Chemist, physicist; major contributor to the miniaturization of computers | [66] | ||
| Medical Degree | Family physician and surgeon | [67] | |||
| 1984 | PhD | Professor of chemistry at St. Edward's University | [68] | ||
| MA and PhD | [69] | ||||
| 1923 1928 < | -- year --> | BA MA PhD | Historian, archaeologist, first director of the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock | [70] | |
| Nancy B. Jackson | 1990 | PhD | Chemist, former president of the American Chemical Society | [71] | |
| 1953 | PhD | Chinese biochemist, the first citizen of the People's Republic of China to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1979 | [72] | ||
| 1935 | PhD | Mathematician | [73] | ||
| 1992 | PhD | Professor of neuroscience at University of Texas at Austin | [74] | ||
| 1998 | PhD | Professor of comparative literature, director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University | [75] | ||
| 1929 1930 | BA MA | Political scientist; studied elections and voting behavior; taught at UCLA; professor at Johns Hopkins University; Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale University; Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government at Harvard University | [76] | ||
| Lauren Krivo | 19801984 | MAPhD | Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University | [77] | |
| MA | Sex and gender historian | [78] | |||
| 1974 | BS | Professor of mechanical and aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville | [79] | ||
| BA | Musicologist and folklorist; son of John Avery Lomax | [80] | |||
| 1908 | BA | Pioneering musicologist and folklorist | [81] | ||
| MSc | Computer scientist, founded Deja News | [82] | |||
| 1966 | PhD | Pioneering piezoelectric materials researcher for underwater sound transducers | [83] | ||
| 1924; 1925 | BA, MA | Professor of political science and pioneer of academic discipline of public administration | [84] [85] | ||
| 1949 1955 | BA MA PhD | Historian, 1987 Jefferson Lecturer | [86] | ||
| PhD | Historian, Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880, college president | [87] | |||
| 1977 | PhD | Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin | [88] | ||
| 1985 | PhD | Joseph Zichis Chair and professor at Michigan State University; editor-in-chief of American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | [89] | ||
| 1952 1954 | BA MA | Historian of mathematics; first curator of mathematical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution | [90] | ||
| Maggie Miller | 2015 | BA | Mathematician researching Low-dimensional topology at UT Austin; received the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize | ||
| 1999 | BSc PhD | Astronomer, research scientist at McDonald Observatory | [91] | ||
| 1901 | BSc | Mathematician | [92] | ||
| 1976 | BA | Evolutionary biologist and entomologist, University of Texas Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor, and co-founder of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute | [93] | ||
| 2004 | Post-doc | Neuroscientist at Indian Institute of Science; author; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [94] | ||
| 1980 | PhD | Chemistry professor; Nelson Diversity Surveys author; scientific workforce scholar | [95] | ||
| Lisa Piccirillo | 2019 | PhD | Mathematician; solved the Conway Knot Problem | [96] | |
| 1940s | BA MA | Historian at Texas Christian University 1957–2000 | style=text-align:center;" | [97] | |
| 1962 1965 1966 | BSc MSc PhD | Mathematician, inventor of Data Vortex | [98] | ||
| 2015 | BSc | Social scientist, author of The End of Animal Farming | [99] | ||
| 1944 1949 | BA PhD | Mathematician | [100] | ||
| 1943 | BSME PhD | Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director of Center for Electromechanics | [101] | ||
| Christine E. Schmidt | 1988 | BS | Biomedical engineer, nerve graft inventor, and professor at University of Florida | [102] | |
| 1944 | BSc | Trauma surgeon | [103] [104] | ||
| Robert Slocum | 1981 | PhD | Professor of botany and biology at Goucher College | [105] [106] | |
| Bette Talvacchia | 1975 | MA | Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut | [107] | |
| 1941 1943 | BA MA | Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine | |||
| 1964< | -- This might be inaccurate, but its the closest I could find. --> | PhD | Astronomer | [108] | |
| 1983 | MA | Astrophysicist | [109] [110] | ||
| BA | Plastic surgeon, researcher, and co-author of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Textbook | [111] | |||
| 1915 | BA | Historian and author of the Handbook of Texas | [112] | ||
| 1995 | BSc BA | Mechanical engineer and public speaker on energy policy | [113] | ||
| 1988 | BSc | Geneticist and anthropologist | [114] | ||
| 1901 | Librarian; first woman to head the Texas State Library; first librarian of Texas Tech University; co-founder and first president of the Southwestern Library Association | [115] [116] | |||
| Amelia Worthington Williams | 1926, 1931 | BAMAPh.D. | Texas historian | [117] [118] | |
| 1992 | MSc | Astronaut, mission specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-121 | [119] |
| Name | Class year | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael A. Baker | 1975 | BSc | ||
| Alan Bean | 1955 | BSc | Fourth person to walk on the Moon as a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 mission | [120] |
| Kenneth Cockrell | 1972 | BSc | [121] | |
| Robert L. Crippen | 1960 | BSc | ||
| Frederick W. Leslie | 1974 | BSc | ||
| Paul S. Lockhart | 1981 | MS | ||
| Carl J. Meade | 1973 | BSc | ||
| Andreas Mogensen | 2008 | PhD | ||
| Frances "Poppy" Northcutt | 1965 | BSc | First female Mission Control engineer | [122] |
| Karen Nyberg | 1996 | MS | ||
| Stephanie D. Wilson | 1992 | MS | ||
| Neil Woodward | 1988 | MA | ||
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | BA | Alaouite prince, advisor of King Mohammed VI and president of energy company Mediholding SA | |||
| 1983 | BSc in geophysics | Billionaire oil and gas developer | [123] | ||
| 1904 1905 | BSc LL.B. | Oil speculator and political activist; father of William F. Buckley, Jr. | [124] | ||
| 1997 2001 | BBA | Co-founder of Tiff's Treats | [125] | ||
| 1997 2001 | BS | Co-founder of Tiff's Treats | |||
| 1979 | BA | Chairman of ClubCorp | [126] | ||
| 1983 1984 | (never graduated) | Founder of Dell Computers | [127] | ||
| (never graduated) | Co-founder of DreamWorks Animation; founder of Asylum Records and Geffen Records | [128] | |||
| 1993 | MBA (McCombs) | General partner at Benchmark Capital | [129] | ||
| 1989 | BA (Plan II) | Co-founder of Keyhole; manager of the Google successor programs Google Maps and Google Earth | [130] | ||
| 1968 | BBA (McCombs) | Former owner of the Texas Rangers | [131] | ||
| 1981 1985 | BSc MSc | Chairman and CEO of Hilcorp; 56th richest American | [132] | ||
| 1974 | MBA (McCombs) | CEO of H.J. Heinz Co. | [133] | ||
| 1974 | BBA (McCombs) | CEO of Southwest Airlines | [134] | ||
| 1982 | BSE | Engineer; first woman and Asian elected Texas Instruments Senior Fellow | [135] | ||
| 1973 1978 | BA (Plan II) MA (Economics) | Co-founder and retired CEO, CarMax | [136] | ||
| < | -- date --> | MBA (McCombs) JD | Co-founder of Clear Channel Communications; former co-owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and Minnesota Vikings | [137] | |
| 1972 | JD | CEO of Progress Energy | [138] | ||
| Chairman and CEO of the Houston Texans NFL franchise | [139] [140] | ||||
| 1968 1969 | BSc (McCombs) MBA (McCombs) | CEO of ConocoPhillips | [141] | ||
| 2016 | BSc (Physics) | Science communicator, astrophysics researcher | [142] | ||
| 1935 | BBA | Oil industrialist, banker, philanthropist from Odessa | [143] | ||
| 1972 1979 | BSc (Cockrell) MSc (Cockrell) | Co-founder of National Instruments | [144] | ||
| 1969 | CEO of Natural Resource Partners | [145] | |||
| 1987 | BBA (McCombs) | CEO of Service Corporation International, a Fortune 1,000 company | [146] | ||
| 1947 | BA | Former Dallas Cowboys general manager; Pro Football Hall of Fame member | [147] | ||
| MBA | Chairman and CEO of Samson Energy; philanthropist | [148] | |||
| 1989, 1998 | BA, MBA (McCombs) | Businessman, co-founder and CEO of Annandale Capital, philanthropist and conservative political activist | [149] | ||
| 1971 | BA | Co-founder of national advertising agency GSD&M | [150] | ||
| 1975 | BSc | Former chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, and former secretary of state in the Donald Trump administration | [151] | ||
| 1964 1967 1974 | BSc MA PhD | Electrical engineer, co-founder, president, and chairman of the board of National Instruments | [152] | ||
| JD | Oilman, lumber mill owner, and rancher; considered the archetype of the Texas oilman | [153] [154] [155] | |||
| 1976 | BSc | Petroleum engineer and managing partner of Parkman Whaling LLC | [156] | ||
| 1974 | BBA (McCombs) | Former CEO of TXU, a Fortune 1,000 energy holdings company | [157] [158] | ||
| 1938 | BA | Founder of Six Flags Over Texas | |||
| Co-founder of the Dallas Cowboys | [159] | ||||
| 1983 | PhD, MBA (McCombs) | Global vice chairman, Hill+Knowlton Strategies; founder of Intelliquest, Zilliant; Austin community figure |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (never graduated) | Actor who won Academy Award for role in Amadeus | [160] | |||
| < | -- Class year --> | Actor featured in Ugly Betty | [161] | ||
| 1952 | BA | Broadway, film and television actress, Academy Award nomination for Breaking Away and Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival for One Potato, Two Potato | [162] | ||
| (never graduated) | Broadway actor | [163] [164] | |||
| 1906 | BSc | Character actress | [165] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA | Actress, starred in 1950s syndicated western television series Annie Oakley | [166] | |
| 1998 | BSc | Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), writer and producer | [167] | ||
| BME | Stage, television, and film actress who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2008 for her portrayal of Violet Weston in | [168] | |||
| (never graduated) | Actress, star of films and original Charlie's Angels television series | [169] | |||
| (never graduated) | Actress, starred as Roz Doyle on TV series Frasier | [170] | |||
| (never graduated) | Actor, starred as Don Draper on TV series Mad Men | [171] | |||
| 1980 | BA | Actress who won Academy Award for role in Pollock, nominated for role in Mystic River; also Tony Award winner for God of Carnage | [172] | ||
| (never graduated) | Actor who won Golden Globe and Emmy Award for role in Magnum, P.I. | [173] | |||
| (never graduated) | Actress, played Donna Culver Krebbs on soap opera Dallas | [174] | |||
| 2001 | BA | Telenovela actor | |||
| 1950 | Prolific actor and producer in Westerns | [175] | |||
| 1999 | BA | Actor on True Blood and Gilmore Girls | [176] | ||
| 1940 1941 | BA MA | Daytime Emmy Award winner for work as Password host, Peabody Award winner for Mind Your Manners | [177] | ||
| (never graduated) | Actress, film star who won Theatre World Award and Golden Globe; mother of Mariska Hargitay | [178] | |||
| BFA | Actress, , Yesterday Was a Lie | [179] | |||
| 1993 | BSc | Actor, film star who won Academy Award for role in Dallas Buyers Club | [180] | ||
| 1973 | BFA | Actor in films such as Animal House, My Cousin Vinny, The Insider, Cinderella Man, Collateral, Lincoln and many other film and television roles | |||
| Lindsey Morgan | 2012 | BA | Actress in The CW television series The 100 | [181] | |
| 1950 | BA | Actor, television star who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone | [182] [183] | ||
| 2003 | BA | Actor, appeared in The Best Man and I Saw the Light | [184] | ||
| 2000 | BFA | Bollywood actor | [185] | ||
| 2011 | (never graduated) | Actor, , Set It Up, The Dark Knight Rises, Scream Queens | [186] [187] | ||
| 1970 | MA | Actor, played Brock Hart on TV series Reba | [188] [189] | ||
| 2012 | BSc | Actor, featured in Moonlight, Bird Box, and The Predator | [190] | ||
| (never graduated) | Actor and singer in Westerns; father of John Ritter | [191] | |||
| 2001 | BSc | Voice actor, Tucker in Red vs. Blue | |||
| 1936 | BA | Actor, featured in such films as The Magnificent Seven, The Godfather, Part III and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Emmy, Tony and honorary Academy Award winner | [192] | ||
| 2010 | B.S.RTF | Actor, known for her television roles on Master of None and Saturday Night Live, as well as writing, directing, and starring in the film Mr. Roosevelt | [193] | ||
| 1991 | BA | Actor, screenwriter and producer, featured in such films as Wedding Crashers, Zoolander, Meet the Parents and Cars | [194] [195] [196] | ||
| 1992 | BA | Actress, film star who won Academy Award for role in Cold Mountain and was nominated for roles in Bridget Jones's Diary and Chicago | [197] | ||
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | BA | Filmmaker who was nominated for Academy Awards for The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel | [198] | ||
| 1997 | BA | Actor, writer, film producer, film director; co-founder and former CEO of Rooster Teeth | [199] | ||
| Thonnis Calhoun | 1950 | BFA | Writer of plays, radio, and television shows | [200] [201] | |
| (Attended 1955-56, her junior year; did not graduate) | Director, First Love and "Chuckles Bites the Dust" | [202] | |||
| 2007 | BSc | Award-winning filmmaker, Strings | |||
| MFA | Film director, producer and screenwriter; with brother Mark, half of the "Duplass Brothers" | ||||
| 1999 | BA | Film director, producer and screenwriter, actor, musician; with brother Jay, half of the "Duplass Brothers" | [203] | ||
| 2008 | BSc | Award-winning filmmaker, Strings | [204] [205] | ||
| 2002 | BA | Screenwriter, Earth to Echo, Shazam! and There's Someone Inside Your House | [206] | ||
| 2010 | BBA, BS, BA | Screenwriter, known for Indian television shows Balika Vadhu and Bade Acche Lagte Hain; author of | [207] | ||
| 1997 | BSc | Actor, film producer, film director, visual effects supervisor; co-founder and current CEO of Rooster Teeth | [208] | ||
| 2002 | MFA | Screenwriter best known for work in Lage Raho Munnabhai (fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film) | [209] | ||
| 1971 | MFA | Award-winning television show runner, writer and producer of Knots Landing, creator of Homefront, Second Chances, and Hotel Malibu | [210] | ||
| (never graduated) | Academy Award-nominated film director and screenwriter, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Before Sunset, Bad News Bears, and Boyhood | [211] | |||
| (transferred to Texas A&M) | Writer and director of Secondhand Lions | [212] | |||
| 2008 | BA | Mexican American filmmaker, director of Spy Kids, Sin City, From Dusk till Dawn; studied at University of Texas at Austin College of Communication | [213] | ||
| BA (Plan II) | Playwright and screenwriter, 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Kentucky Cycle) | ||||
| BA | Television and film director and producer | [214] | |||
| 1940 | Writer of musical theatre; wrote lyrics for musicals The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, I Do! I Do!, Celebration | [215] | |||
| 1975 | BSc (at RTF) | Hong Kong film producer and film director, major figure of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema | |||
| 1962 | BA | Broadway choreographer, dancer, stage and film actor | |||
| 1970 | MFA | Director, producer, 13 Going on 30, Bride Wars | [216] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anike | 2018 | Formerly known as Wande; rapper and A&R administrator | [217] [218] | ||
| 1993 | BA | Singer of country rap known as "Cowboy Troy", co-host of Nashville Star | [219] | ||
| 1999 | DMA | Composer and arranger: U.S. Army Jazz Knights, Aaron Neville, Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and TV shows Deal or No Deal, The Jenny Jones Show, American Restoration and Access Hollywood | [220] | ||
| 1997 | MA
| Indie-rock musician | [221] | ||
| 1990 | M.Mus. | Opera singer | |||
| 1966 | BA | Singer and author | [222] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA | Winner of 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album | [223] | |
| (never graduated) | Singer; posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | [224] | |||
| Jerry Junkin | 1978 | BM, MM | Director of Bands at University of Texas Austin, Head of the Conducting Division, Music Director and Conductor of the Dallas Winds and the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia, Principal Guest Conductor of the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Wind Symphony | ||
| Sarah Lipstate | 2006 | Guitarist and composer performs under the name Noveller | [225] | ||
| Lotic | 2012 | BSc | Electronic musician | [226] | |
| 1967 | B.Mus. | Billboard Award-winning classical guitarist and lutenist | [227] | ||
| 1971 | PhD | Founding member of rock band The Velvet Underground | [228] | ||
| 1982 | BA | Christian music songwriter and musician | |||
| 1962 | BA | Singer-songwriter | [229] [230] | ||
| 1983 | BSc | Protest-music writer and performer | [231] | ||
| 2012 | BSc | Guitarist for The Iron Maidens; former guitarist for Before the Mourning | [232] [233] | ||
| 2022 | (never graduated) | Singer, songwriter, and producer; founder and lead of the indie pop project Dayglow | |||
| 2008 | BM, BA, BAJ | Singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, actress based in Taiwan |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | BSc | Author of comic strip Bloom County | [234] | ||
| 1922 | BA | "Father of the adventure story cartoon strip"; author of syndicated Buz Sawyer | [235] | ||
| 1968 | BSc | Cartoonist (Thadeus & Weez, The Daily Scribble), lawyer | [236] | ||
| 1970 | BA | Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, Austin American-Statesman (1974–2009) | [237] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | BA | Daughter of President George W. Bush | [238] | |
| 1973 | MLS | Former first lady of the United States | [239] | |
| 1933 | BA | Former first lady of the United States; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal | [240] | |
| 1966 | BA | Eldest daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson; former first lady of Virginia | [241] | |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 1942 | BBA LL.B. | Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | [244] | |
| 1985 1987 | BA JD | Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | [245] | |
| 1972 | BA | Chief judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; former chair of the United States Sentencing Commission | [246] | |
| 1942 | BA JD | Federal judge for the Eastern District of Texas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | [247] | |
| 1965 1967 | BA LL.B. | Federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | [248] | |
| 1949 1950 | BA JD | Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | [249] | |
| 1971 1975 | BA JD | Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School | [250] | |
Note: "D" indicates a Democrat while "R" indicates a Republican.
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | JD | Former senator (D) from Texas | [251] | ||
| 1898 | JD | Former representative and senator (D) from Texas | [252] | ||
| 1962 1967 | BA JD | Former United States senator (R) from Texas (1993–2013) | [253] | ||
| 1900 1901 | JD | Former United States senator from Texas (1923–1929) | [254] | ||
| 1927 | JD | Former United States senator from Texas (1957–1971) | [255] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | BA | Former representative (D) from Texas' 3rd congressional district | [256] | ||
| 1946 1951 | BA LL.B | United States representative from Texas (1971–2001) | [257] | ||
| 1971 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1991) | [258] | ||
| James Andrew Beall | 1890 | JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1903–1925) | [259] | |
| 1982 | BJ | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2003–2005) | [260] | ||
| 1932 1936 | College JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1957) | [261] | ||
| 1942 | JD | U.S. representative (1948–1955), U.S. senator (1970–1992), U.S. vice presidential candidate (1988), and secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton | [262] | ||
| 1897 | JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1917–1929, and 1930–1937) | [263] | ||
| 1965 | BA | Former member of the United States House of Representatives from Amarillo (1985–1989) | [264] | ||
| 1943 1949 | BA LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1995) | [265] | ||
| 1968 | BBA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1985–1997) | [266] | ||
| 1981 1998 | JD PhD | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2005–) | [267] | ||
| 1967 1970 | BA JD | Former justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1989–1994), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995–) | [268] | ||
| 1935 1939 | BA LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1981) | [269] | ||
| 1974 1978 | BA JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–1997) | [270] | ||
| 1969 | BA | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–) | [271] | ||
| 1924 1927 | BA LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1951) | [272] | ||
| 1962 | BBA | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1997–) | [273] | ||
| 1936 1937 | BA LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1961) | [274] | ||
| 1907 | LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1917–1940) | [275] | ||
| 1940 | Pre-Law | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1985) | [276] | ||
| 1911 | JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1931–1945) | [277] | ||
| 1954 | BBA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1991) | [278] | ||
| 1968 1971 | BA JD | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987) | [279] | ||
| 1953 | BBA LL.B. | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1985) | [280] | ||
| 1938 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1995), namesake of the University of Texas' J.J. Pickle Research Campus | [281] [282] | ||
| 1897 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1902–1913) | [283] | ||
| 1897 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wharton (1985–1989) | [284] | ||
| 1897 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1963) | [285] | ||
| 1897 | BA | Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1997–2005) | [286] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | BBA | 48th governor of Texas | [287] | ||
| 1942 | BA | 41st governor of Texas | [288] | ||
| 1974 | BA | 43rd governor of Florida | [289] | ||
| 1939 1941 | BA LL.B. | 39th governor of Texas, wounded while riding in the car during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy | [290] | ||
| 1910 1914 | BA LL.B. | 30th governor of Texas and opponent of the Ku Klux Klan; at age 33 he was elected and took office as the youngest governor in Texas history | [291] | ||
| BA LL.B. | 40th governor of Colorado | [292] | |||
| BA LL.B. | 45th governor of Texas | [293] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former vice-president of Colombia (2002–2010) | [294] | ||||
| 1979 | MBA | president of Panama (2019–) | |||
| 1983 | PhD | Economist, former Mexican ambassador to the European Union (2004–2007) | [295] | ||
| 1986 | PhD | Former prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority (2007–2013) | [296] | ||
| Hişyar Özsoy | 2004 2010 | MSc, PhD | Kurdish academic and politician in Turkey | [297] | |
| 1947 | MA | First and former Saudi minister of petroleum and mineral resources (1960–1962); co-founder of the OPEC | [298] | ||
| 1935 | BA | Former president of Peru (1963–1968, 1980–1985) | [299] | ||
| 1974 | MBA | Former Indian union minister of state for health and family welfare (2009 and 2011–2011); former union minister for railways (2011–2012) | [300] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert B. Anderson | 1932 | LL.B. | Secretary of the treasury (1957–1961), deputy secretary of defense (1954–1955), and secretary of the Navy (1953–1954) under Dwight D. Eisenhower | [301] | |
| 1957 | JD | Secretary of state under George H. W. Bush, secretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan, and White House Chief of Staff under both George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan | [302] | ||
| < | -- year --> | PhD | President Reagan's chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1981–1985); secretary of education (1985–1988); President George Herbert Walker Bush's "drug czar" (1989–1990) | ||
| 1942 | LL.B. | U.S. representative (1948–1955); U.S. senator (1970–1992); secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton | [303] | ||
| 1971 | BA | Journalist, former White House press secretary (1966–1969) | [304] [305] | ||
| 1949 | BA | Lawyer, former United States attorney general (1967–1969) | [306] | ||
| 1922 | BA LL.B. | Former United States attorney general (1945–1949) | [307] [308] | ||
| 1941 | LL.B. | 39th governor of Texas (1963–1969); former United States secretary of the treasury (1971–1972); seriously wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy | [309] | ||
| 1969 1973 | BSc MBA (McCombs) | Former secretary of commerce under George W. Bush | [310] | ||
| 1991 | BA | Former White House Press Secretary (2003–2006) | [311] | ||
| 1975 | BSc | 69th United States secretary of state (2017–2018) | [312] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | BA | Retired United States Navy admiral, director of the National Security Agency, Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy (University of Texas at Austin) | [313] | ||
| 1936 | BBA | World War II aviator, Medal of Honor recipient | [314] | ||
| Jeannie Leavitt | 1990 | BA | First female fighter pilot in the United States Air Force | [315] | |
| 1977 | BA | Retired United States Navy admiral, 2014 commencement speaker | |||
| 1968 | BA | Army ranger, Medal of Honor recipient | [316] | ||
| 1972 | MA | Retired United States Air Force brigadier general | [317] | ||
| 1941 | BA | Retired United States Marine Corps major general; recipient of the Navy Cross | [318] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | MPA | Activist, Minority Leader (2011–2017) in the Georgia House of Representatives, Candidate in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election | |||
| < | -- year --> | J.D. | Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 8; former Houston prosecutor and state district and intermediate appeals judge | [319] | |
| < | -- year --> | Former Texas speaker of the House (1965–1969) and Lieutenant Governor of Texas (1969–1973) | |||
| < | -- year --> | BA | White House communications director for President George W. Bush | [320] | |
| < | -- year --> | Professor of philosophy and spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front | |||
| Attended briefly c. 1889 | Lawyer and member of both houses of the Texas legislature from Lubbock, 1915–1929 | ||||
| 1975 | BA | Prominent pharmaceutical injury attorney | [321] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA | Republican state representative from Harris County, 1971–1983 | [322] | |
| < | -- year --> | BSc | Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1983–1992; educator in Laredo, Texas | [323] [324] | |
| 1904 | MA | Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1924; member of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, 1932–1936 | [325] | ||
| 1957 | BSc | Midland oilman; former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives | [326] | ||
| 1978 | BBA | Member of the Texas Senate from District 16, 1996–2015 | [327] | ||
| 1942 | BJ | Former press secretary to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson | [328] | ||
| < | -- year --> | Law school, former speaker of Texas House of Representatives and Attorney General of Texas | |||
| Accounting | Secretary of State of Texas, beginning 2015; outgoing county judge of Cameron County, Texas, 2007–2015 | [329] | |||
| < | -- year --> | Former first lady of Texas | |||
| < | -- year --> | Law | Texas state senator from Lubbock (1949–1957); father of actor Barry Corbin | [330] | |
| 1992 | Bachelor's degree | Texas Railroad Commission member since 2012 from Midland; daughter of Texas state representative Tom Craddick | [331] | ||
| 1972 | BA | Vice Admiral; first woman to attain flag rank; first female vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard | [332] | ||
| c. 1992 | Bachelor of Arts | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from Conroe; lawyer and businessman | [333] | ||
| 1973 | BBA | Mayor of Plano, Texas (2009–2013), president of LegacyTexas Bank | [334] | ||
| 1974 | BSc | First Hispanic woman to serve on a state district court in Texas, judge of the 341st Judicial District from 1983 to 2012 | [335] | ||
| 2007 | PhD in curriculum development and educational instruction | Texas state representative from District 20 in Williamson County; former member of the Texas State Board of Education from District 10 | [336] | ||
| (never graduated) | Former commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command | [337] | |||
| < | -- year --> | MBA | Texas state representative from Dallas (1999–2003); businessman | [338] | |
| 1980 1990 | BA JD | First staff lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, former general counsel of Wikimedia Foundation | [339] | ||
| BA | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from his native Fort Worth; real estate businessman | [340] | |||
| 1943 | Bachelor's degree | Attorney in San Antonio and Republican political figure in the 1950s and 1960s | [341] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA BBA | Texas state representative for Kaufman County (2011–2015; 2017–), businessman | [342] | |
| (never graduated) | Former Texas state representative from Travis County, first woman to serve on the Texas Railroad Commission | [343] | |||
| 1950 | BA | Former director of the National Security Agency | [344] | ||
| 1950 1953 | BA JD | Trial lawyer | [345] | ||
| 1971 | Bachelor's degree | First Republican woman to serve as both a state senator from Bexar County (1985–1993) and as the Bexar County administrative judge (1993 to 2001) | [346] | ||
| 1962 | BBA PhD | Texas state representative from Rockdale (1969–1983; 1991–1998), businessman | [347] | ||
| Bachelor's degree | Texas state representative from Seguin (since 2010), businessman | [348] | |||
| 1900 | BA | Politician, author of Lanham Act, the law governing U.S. trademark policy | [349] | ||
| BA | Texas state representative from Collin County since 2003, businesswoman in Allen, Texas | [350] | |||
| Adam R. Lee | 2002 | BA | Maine state representative | [351] | |
| 1979 1982 | BA JD | Texas Supreme Court justice (Place 3), former 360th District Court judge in Fort Worth | |||
| 1969 | JD | 138th president of the State Bar of Texas (2018) | [352] | ||
| 2003 | BA | Texas state representative from Kingsville since 2011 | [353] | ||
| Law school courses; transferred to Cumberland School of Law | Attorney General of Texas (since 1967), former Texas state senator (1949–1963); Texas Secretary of State (1963–1966); mayor of Hillsboro | [354] | |||
| 2006 | PhD | Mayor of Garland, Texas 1984–1986, member of the Texas Railroad Commission 1995–2005, and chancellor-emeritus of the Texas State University System 2005–2010 | [355] | ||
| 1990 | Master of Business Administration | Chairman of the Travis County Republican Party since 2016; considered a conspiracy theorist and anti-Hillary Clinton activist | [356] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BBA JD | Departing Republican Party of Texas state chairman | [357] | |
| 1980 | BA | Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston, 2007–2009 and since 2011; real estate businessman | [358] | ||
| BA Government | Counterterroism expert in the George W. Bush Administration; Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary of Threat Prevention and Security for the United States Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration | [359] | |||
| Law degree | Republican member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; former Harris County assistant district attorney | [360] | |||
| 1955 | BSc | Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Fort Smith, 1967–1972; since resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma | [361] | ||
| 1949 | JD | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from Kerrville (1961–1979) and member of the Texas Railroad Commission (1979–1995) | [362] | ||
| 1998 | Bachelor's degree | Republican state representative for District 21 in Beaumont, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (2021–) | [363] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA | Republican state representative for District 87 in Amarillo | [364] | |
| 1983 | BS in civil engineering | Republican state representative from District 115 in Dallas County (2013–2015) | [365] | ||
| BS in civil engineering | Republican state senator from Mount Pleasant (1989–2000; 2003–2004) and lieutenant governor (2000–2003) | [366] | |||
| < | -- year --> | Former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives | |||
| < | -- year --> | BA | State legislator, advocate for Hispanic causes | [367] | |
| 1941 | LL.B | State attorney general (1953–1957) | [368] | ||
| 1986 | Law | Former justice of the Texas Supreme Court | [369] | ||
| < | -- year --> | Attorney and lecturer, represented "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court case | |||
| 1974 | BA | Mayor of Houston | [370] | ||
| < | -- year --> | BA, JD | Texas attorney, known for being accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney | ||
| 1972 | BA | U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein | [371] [372] | ||
| BA | Houston attorney; chairman of the Harris County Republican Party, 2002–2014 | [373] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 1990 | BA JD | Former host of CNN's Crossfire | [374] | |
| Benjamin Bryant | (medically withdrew) | Radio and television broadcaster, BZ/MP executive editor, host of The Brink with Benjamin Bryant | [375] [376] [377] | |
| 1942 | Feminist writer, former press secretary to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson | [378] | ||
| Anchor for CBS Evening News | [379] | |||
| 1981 | MSc | Media commentator on the Middle East, TV news analyst | [380] | |
| 1972 | Owner and operator of the Quorum Report and Texas Energy Report, political analyst for Spectrum News | [381] | ||
| 1995 | BA | Anchor for The CBS Morning News | [382] | |
| BA | Journalist, winner of the 1961 Gerald Loeb Award for Newspapers | [383] [384] [385] | ||
| 1998 | BA | Former executive editor of the magazine Jane (2005–2007) | [386] | |
| 1982 | BA | Senior correspondent for CNN | [387] | |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAMA | Cultural historian and author | [388] | |||
| 1978 | BFA | Thriller author, most known as the first American to pen official James Bond novels | [389] | ||
| 1978 1980 | BA MA | Book critic at The Boston Globe, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism | [390] | ||
| 1988 2000 | MA PhD | Author (Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human), authority on cochlear implants and neurally controlled prosthetics | [391] | ||
| 1968 | PhD | Winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature | [392] | ||
| 2011 | MA | Romantic mystery novelist, lawyer | [393] | ||
| 1915 | BA | Businessman, novelist (Sironia, Texas) | [394] | ||
| 1976 | Bachelor's degree in Radio/TV/Film | Author of Winston Pooh: An Investigation into the Real Story behind the Stories | [395] | ||
| BA | Cookbook author | [396] | |||
| 1953 | BA | Novelist, winner of the Premio Quinto Sol prize | [397] | ||
| 1985 1987 | MA PhD | Award-winning poet, program director at the University of Wyoming | [398] | ||
| 1948 | BA | Western novelist, winner of a number of prizes in western literature | [399] | ||
| 1987 | BA | Romance and fantasy author | [400] | ||
| 1956 | BA | Author, journalist, editor of Harper's Magazine, Rhodes scholar | [401] | ||
| MFA | Poet and teacher; winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize | [402] | |||
| BA | Author of historical novels (Welsh Princes Trilogy, Plantagenet Series) | [403] | |||
| 1987 | BA | Science fiction writer, editor of Hugo Award-nominated SF-fanzine Nova Express | [404] | ||
| 1996 | BFA | Novelist, television writer, actor | [405] | ||
| 1986 | BA | Novelist (the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series) | [406] | ||
| BFA | Novelist (the Milo Weaver Trilogy) | [407] | |||
| BFA | Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning science fiction novelist, cyberpunk (, The Difference Engine) | [408] | |||
| 1968 | BA | Horror and science fiction novelist (The Wolfen, Warday), Ufologist (Communion) | [409] | ||
| Author of historical novels (True Women) | [410] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former MLB baseman | [412] | ||||
| (never graduated) | Starting pitcher for five MLB teams, 7-time Cy Young Award-winner, 1986 American League MVP, 11-time All-Star, 2-time World Series champion, winner of 1983 College World Series | [413] | |||
| Former MLB pitcher | [414] | ||||
| MLB outfielder | [415] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher, National College Baseball Hall of Famer | [416] | ||||
| MLB outfielder | [417] | ||||
| Former MLB left fielder; former University of Texas baseball coach | [418] | ||||
| (never graduated) | Former MLB shortstop, former manager of the Minnesota Twins | [419] | |||
| Former MLB pitcher | [420] | ||||
| Former MLB pinch hitter, third baseman and left fielder | [421] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher, National College Baseball Hall of Famer | [422] | ||||
| MLB pitcher | [423] | ||||
| Former MLB outfielder | [424] | ||||
| Former MLB shortstop | [425] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher | [426] | ||||
| MLB infielder | [427] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher | [428] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher | [429] | ||||
| (never graduated) | MLB second baseman; fifth head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball program | [430] | |||
| MLB pitcher | [431] | ||||
| Former MLB pitcher, member of the 1984 Olympic Baseball Team | [432] | ||||
| MLB catcher | [433] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (never graduated) | NBA power forward, 7-time NBA All Star | [435] | ||
| NBA point guard | [436] | |||
| NBA center for the Orlando Magic | [437] | |||
| NBA shooting guard | [438] | |||
| Player in the Israel Basketball Premier League | ||||
| 2005 | BA MSc | Former WNBA point guard | [439] [440] | |
| Basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League | ||||
| (never graduated) | [441] | |||
| NBA small forward and shooting guard | [442] | |||
| B.S. | Former NBA point guard | [443] | ||
| NBA guard | [444] | |||
| Player in the Israel Basketball Premier League | ||||
| Former WNBA player | ||||
| NBA point guard | [445] | |||
| Former NBA center | [446] | |||
| Former NBA point guard | [447] | |||
| (never graduated) | Former NBA point guard | [448] | ||
| Player in the Israel Basketball Premier League | ||||
| Former NBA forward, current player for Israeli Maccabi Haifa BC | [449] | |||
| Former NBA point guard | [450] | |||
| Former NBL and NBA guard | [451] | |||
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | BS | Former college quarterback, 2001 Holiday Bowl MVP, former co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for UT Austin, current University of Houston head coach | [452] [453] | ||
| (never graduated) | Former NFL halfback | [454] | |||
| NFL running back, Doak Walker Award winner | [455] | ||||
| Former NFL running back | [456] | ||||
| Former NFL safety | [457] | ||||
| NFL guard | [458] | ||||
| Former NFL defensive back | [459] | ||||
| Former quarterback | [460] | ||||
| NFL cornerback | [461] | ||||
| American Football League end | [462] | ||||
| (never graduated) | Former NFL running back, College Football and Pro Football Hall of Famer | [463] | |||
| BA | Former NFL, current CFL wide receiver | [464] | |||
| NFL running back, former track and field athlete | [465] | ||||
| (never graduated) | NFL wide receiver | [466] | |||
| NFL defensive end | [467] | ||||
| NFL offensive guard | [468] | ||||
| Former NFL halfback | [469] | ||||
| BA | NFL placekicker | [470] | |||
| BA | NFL offensive guard | [471] [472] | |||
| NFL tight end | [473] | ||||
| Former NFL cornerback, College Football Hall of Famer | [474] | ||||
| NFL cornerback | [475] | ||||
| BA | NFL safety | [476] [477] | |||
| NFL nose tackle | [478] | ||||
| Former NFL tight end | [479] | ||||
| NFL offensive tackle | [480] | ||||
| Former NFL running back | [481] | ||||
| NFL safety and cornerback | [482] | ||||
| NFL safety | [483] | ||||
| (never graduated) | NFL linebacker | [484] | |||
| Head football coach and Athletic Director of the Texas Tech Red Raiders | [485] | ||||
| 1949 | BBA | Former NFL cornerback and head coach, NFL Hall of Famer | [486] | ||
| (never graduated) | Former NFL quarterback, College Football and NFL Hall of Famer, source of the "Curse of Bobby Layne" | [487] | |||
| 1984 | All-American and NFL player | [488] | |||
| NFL linebacker | [489] | ||||
| NFL quarterback | [490] | ||||
| Former NFL running back and wide receiver, return specialist | [491] | ||||
| 2008 | BA | NFL linebacker | [492] | ||
| Former NFL offensive guard, two-time Super Bowl champion | [493] | ||||
| Former NFL linebacker, College Football Hall of Famer | [494] | ||||
| NFL defensive tackle | [495] | ||||
| NFL linebacker | [496] | ||||
| (never graduated) | NFL defensive end | [497] | |||
| Bijan Robinson | 2023 | NFL running back | |||
| BA | NFL defensive end | [498] [499] | |||
| NFL defensive tackle | [500] | ||||
| NFL cornerback | [501] | ||||
| 2004 | BA | NFL tight end | [502] [503] | ||
| NFL offensive tackle | [504] | ||||
| 2006 | BA | NFL center | [505] | ||
| NFL wide receiver | [506] | ||||
| BA | Former NFL quarterback | [507] [508] | |||
| NFL back | [509] | ||||
| NFL and CFL player | [510] | ||||
| Former college football quarterback | |||||
| BA | NFL offensive guard | [511] [512] | |||
| Former NFL, current CFL wide receiver | [513] | ||||
| BSc | NFL tight end | [514] [515] | |||
| NFL safety | [516] | ||||
| NFL defensive tackle | [517] | ||||
| NFL placekicker | [518] | ||||
| Former NFL cornerback | [519] | ||||
| Former NFL offensive tackle and guard | [520] | ||||
| (never graduated) | Former NFL and CFL running back | [521] | |||
| Former NFL wide receiver | [522] | ||||
| 1938 | All-American and NFL player | [523] | |||
| NFL and CFL defensive end | [524] | ||||
| 2006 | BA | NFL running back | [525] | ||
| 2013 | NFL quarterback | [526] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner of the 1996 PGA Championship | |||||
| Winner of 1984 and 1995 Masters Tournaments, World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, 1972 NCAA champion | [527] | ||||
| Professional golfer | [528] [529] | ||||
| 1996 | Psychology | Professional golfer | [530] | ||
| (never graduated) | Professional golfer, World Golf Hall of Famer, golf course architect, first pro player to add a third wedge to his bag | [531] | |||
| (never graduated) | Professional golfer, Open Championship winner (1997) | [532] | |||
| Professional golfer and golf coach, World Golf Hall of Famer, author | |||||
| 2018 | Finance | Winner of 2022 Masters Tournament | [533] | ||
| Winner of 2015 Masters Tournament, 2015 US Open, and the 2017 Open Championship | |||||
| (never graduated) | Professional golfer, Women's British Open winner | [534] | |||
| Venezuelan professional golfer | [535] |
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Finance | Specialized in freestyle events; world record-holder in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics, Olympic silver medalist in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London, two-time NCAA champion | [536] | |
| 2017 | Specializes in butterfly and freestyle events; gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 9-time NCAA Champion, 17-time All-American, 3-time NCAA team champion, current NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record-holder in the 200-yard butterfly | [537] | ||
| 2005 | BSc | World record-setter and winner of 4×100 m medley relay gold medals in both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics | [538] | |
| Josh Davis | 1994 | Won three gold medals in the 1996 Summer Olympics and two silver medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics | [539] | |
| 2002 | Won the bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 800 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics | [540] | ||
| Jimmy Feigen | 2012 | Won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a gold medal for the 4x100-meter freestyle relay for the 2016 Summer Olympics | [541] | |
| 2019 | Specializes in freestyle events; gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Olympic finalist in the 200 m freestyle at the 2016 Summer Olympics (5th place), 10-time NCAA champion, 18-time All-American, 3-time NCAA team champion, former NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record-holder in the 200-yard freestyle, 2019 AAU Sullivan Award finalist | [542] | ||
| 2005 | BSc | Former world record holder in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and current record holder in the 4×100 m medley relay; at the 2004 Summer Olympics won the gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay, silver at the 100 m breaststroke, and bronze at the 200 m breaststroke; at the 2008 Summer Olympics his team won gold and set a world record in the 4×100 m medley relay | [543] | |
| 1991 | Won gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics | [544] | ||
| 2017 | Sport Management | Specializes in breaststroke and medley events; 11-time NCAA Champion, 15-time All-American, 3-time NCAA team champion, current NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record-holder in the 200-yard breaststroke, 2017 Big 12 Athlete of the Year, Texas Cowboys alum | [545] [546] | |
| 2006 | Won Olympic medals at the 2000 (silver in 200 m backstroke), 2004 (gold in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and the 4×100 m medley relay), and 2008 Summer Olympics (gold in the 100 m backstroke and 4×100 m medley relay, silver in the 200 m backstroke); former world record-holder in the 100 m backstroke, current world record-holder 4×100 m medley relay, current world record-holder in the 200 m backstroke | [547] | ||
| 2018 | Specializes in butterfly, freestyle, and medley events; gold medalist in the 100 m butterfly in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, winner of Singapore's first Olympic medal in swimming, Olympic record-holder in the 100 m butterfly, 12-time NCAA champion, 22-time All-American, 4-time NCAA team champion, former NCAA and U.S. Open record-holder in the 100 & 200 y butterfly | [548] | ||
| 2019 | Specializes in backstroke, butterfly, and medley events; 5-time NCAA Champion, 9-time All-American, 3-time NCAA team champion, and the 2017 Big 12 Swimmer of the Year | [549] | ||
| 2017 | Specializes in freestyle events; gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 4-time NCAA Champion, 6-time All-American, 3-time NCAA team champion, former NCAA, American, and U.S. Open record-holder in the 500 and 1650 y freestyles, current American record-holder in the 1000 y freestyle; son of University of Texas Olympic swimmer Tori Trees | [550] | ||
| 1990 | 1988 Olympic team in the 200 breaststroke | |||
| 2007 | Swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, world record-holder in two events | |||
| 2003 | Rhodes scholar, competed on the Singapore national team at the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics, more Olympic games than any other Singaporean athlete | [551] | ||
| Name | Class year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Communications | Professional mixed martial artist formerly competing in the UFC's Middleweight Division | [554] | |||
| < | -- year --> | First female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, five-time Olympic medalist, 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year | [555] | ||
| < | -- year --> | Tennis player | |||
| Name | Class Year(s) | Degree(s) | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Art | Artist and activist | [556] | ||
| 2008 | BA | Contemporary artist and educator | [557] | |
| 2009 | BSc | Victim in the West Campus murders in 2009 | [558] | |
| 1937 | English | Philanthropist | [559] | |
| (never graduated) | Gambler and high roller | [560] | ||
| 1997 | Plan II honors program | Magician, podcaster, author, lecturer, known for Scam School | [561] | |
| 1979 | Contemporary artist | [562] | ||
| Nutritional Science and Pre-Med major | Miss Texas 2014 and Miss Florida USA 2020 | [563] [564] | ||
| 2008 | BA | Victim in the West Campus murders in 2009 | ||
| 1968, 1970 | B.A., M.A. | Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum | ||
| Miss Texas World 1971, Miss World USA 1971, Miss American Beauty 1974 (Miss U.S. International 1974) & Miss International 1974 | [565] [566] [567] [568] | |||
| 2006 | Master of Arts | Miss Earth 2007 | [569] | |