Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
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William Antholis | 1986 | Col | Director of UVA's Miller Center; former Managing Director Brookings; former White House and State Department staff | |
Donald J. Boudreaux | 1992 | Law | | |
Claire-Marie Brisson | 2021 | Ph.D | Preceptor in French, Harvard University | |
William Yancey Brown | 1969 | Col | President of Bishop Museum, author and institutional leader | |
John T. Casteen III | 1965, 1970 | Col, Graduate | President of the University of Virginia | |
Edmund M. Clarke | 1967 | Col | FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award | |
Anita H. Clayton | 1982 | Med | Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine | |
John R. Conniff | | Law | President of Louisiana Tech University, 1926–1928 | [1] |
David Ellenson | 1973 | MA Religion | President Emeritus and Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | |
Jerry Falwell Jr. | 1986 | Law | Chancellor and President, Liberty University | |
Gary L. Francione | | Law | Professor at Rutgers University | |
| 1993, 1998 | MA, Ph.D | Professor of History and American Studies at Yale 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 of Cornell University; former provost of the University of Southern California | [2] |
Roger Harold Hull | 1974 | Law | President of Beloit College and Union College | |
Charles W. Kent | 1882 | Col | English professor at UVA | |
Gloria Cordes Larson | 1976 | Law | President of Bentley University | |
Helen Matthews Lewis | 1949 | Graduate | sociologist, historian, and activist | |
Edgar Odell Lovett | 1895 | Graduate | mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured President of Rice University | |
Richard A. Lutz | 1971 | Col | Professor at the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences | [3] |
M. Elizabeth Magill | 1995 | Law | Dean of Stanford Law School | |
J. Hillis Miller Sr. | 1928 | Graduate | President of the University of Florida (1947–1953) | |
Blake Morant | 1975, 1978 | Col, Law | Dean of George Washington University Law School | |
Nick Morgan | 1977, 1981 | MA, PhD | Assistant Vice President and Provost, University of Virginia; professional at Princeton University | [4] |
Edward P. Ney | 1946 | Ph.D | Physicist and college professor who made major contributions to cosmic ray research and atmospheric physics | [5] |
Marvin Banks Perry Jr. | 1940 | Col | President of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College | |
Harrison Randolph | 1892 | Graduate | President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945) | |
W. Taylor Reveley, III | 1968 | Law | President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School | |
William Craig Rice | 1975 | Col | President of Shimer College | [6] |
Larry Sabato | 1974 | Col | Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics | |
Alex Sanders | 1990 | Law | President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001) | |
Thomas A. Saunders III | 1967 | Darden | Chairman of The Heritage Foundation | |
Stuart Schreiber | 1977 | Col | Chemical biologist; founding member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT | |
Nicole Shelton | 1996, 1998 | M.A., Ph.D | Professor of psychology at Princeton University | |
Brooks D. Simpson | 1979 | Col | Professor of history at Arizona State University, | |
Robert Sitkoff | 1996 | Graduate | | |
Valerie Smith | 1978, 1982 | Graduate | President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University | [7] |
| 1991, 1995 | M.A., Ph.D | History professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow | [8] |
Richard E. Wagner | 1966 | Ph.D | Professor emeritus of economics at George Mason University | |
John C. White | 1998 | Col | Louisiana Superintendent of Education | [9] |
William Wulf | 1966 | Graduate | President of the National Academy of Engineering, designer of BLISS programming language | | |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|
Lee Ainslie | 1986 | Col | founder and managing partner of Maverick 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 the Bank 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 of Sara Lee | |
Algernon S. Buford | 1850 | Law | President, Richmond and Danville Railroad | |
W. Graham Claytor Jr. | 1933 | Col | President, Southern Railway and Amtrak; and U.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 of Reddit | |
Bob Hugin | 1985 | Darden | Chair of Celgene | |
Mansoor Ijaz | 1983 | Col | Founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd | |
Paul Tudor Jones | 1976 | Col | President and founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and the Robin Hood Foundation | |
Stephen P. Joyce | 1982 | Comm | President and CEO of Choice Hotels as well as CEO of Dine 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 of The 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 at Goldman Sachs | |
William Nelson Page | | Non-degreed | Co-founder of the Virginian Railway | |
Charlie Papazian | 1972 | BS Nuclear Engineering | founder of the Association of Brewers and the Great American Beer Festival, | |
Michelle Nunn | 1989 | Col | CEO, Points of Light and President of Care International USA | |
Alexis Ohanian | 2005 | Comm | Co-founder of Reddit | |
Steven Reinemund | 1978 | Darden | Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc. | |
Mendel Rosenblum | 1984 | Col | Co-founder of VMware | |
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 |
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Robert Aldrich | | Non-degreed | film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen | |
Will Anderson | 2008 | Col | lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute | |
Krystal Ball | 2003 | Col | Anchor on MSNBC's The Cycle | |
David Berman | 1989 | Col | Lead singer of indi-rock band Silver Jews | |
John Brenkus | 1993 | Col | Host, ESPN's Sports 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 the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys | |
Tom Cora | | Col | avant-garde cellist and composer | |
Katie Couric | 1979 | Col | anchor of CBS Evening News; former host of NBC's The Today Show | [16] |
John Dickerson | 1991 | Col | Anchor of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson | |
Deidre Downs | | Non-degreed | Miss America 2005 | |
Kimberly Dozier | 1993 | Graduate | Reporter for CBS 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, and Quinceañera | [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 of indie-rock band Pavement | |
Benjamin McKenzie | 2001 | Col | actor, Fox's The O.C. | |
| 1995 | Col | director, filmmaker, director of Oscar-nominated short film Fresh 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, , Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty | |
Melissa Stark | 1995 | Col | reporter, ESPN and ABC's Monday Night Football | |
Skipp Sudduth | 1983 | Graduate | actor | |
Boyd Tinsley | | | violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave 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, and Blossom | [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 | 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 | |
| 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 the Senate of Virginia | [33] |
Howell Edmunds Jackson | 1854 | Graduate | Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee | [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 the United 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 of Ring of Fire | [37] |
Thomas Davis Ranson | 1868 | Law | Virginian lawyer and businessperson, veteran Capt. of the Confederate 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 and Border Ruffian | |
William M. Walton | 1851 | Law | Attorney General of Texas | |
Sheldon Whitehouse | 1982 | Law | Attorney General of Rhode Island, United States Senator from Rhode Island | | |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|
Corban Addison | 2004 | Law | author of A Walk Across the Sun | |
Susanne Antonetta | 1989 | MFA | poet and author | |
Taylor Antrim | 2004 | MFA | Novelist | |
Amy Argetsinger | 1990 | Col | Writer and editor at the Washington Post | |
Louis Auchincloss | 1941 | Law | Novelist, lawyer, National Book Award for Fiction finalist | |
David Baldacci | 1986 | Law | novelist Memory Man, The Camel Club, Total Control | |
Fred Barnes | 1965 | Col | editor, The Weekly Standard | |
Sandra Beasley | 2002 | Col | Poet and writer, 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize | |
David Blight | 2020 | Col | Pulitzer Prize winner in history for | |
Jamelle Bouie | 2009 | Col | Columnist for the New York Times, Forbes 30 under 30 2015 | |
Paul Bowles | | Non-degreed | Novelist, travel writer, composer, author of The Sheltering Sky, Up Above the World | |
Michael P. Branch | | MA, Ph.D | ecocritic, writer, and activist | |
William Cabell Bruce | 1880 | Col | 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography | |
Oni Buchanan | 1997 | Col | Poet, National Poetry Series winner 2007 | |
Erskine Caldwell | | Non-degreed | novelist, author of Tobacco Road | |
Virginius Dabney | | Col | Editor of Richmond Times Dispatch, author, Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Kyle Dargan | 2002 | Col | Poet, 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize | |
Laura Dave | 2003 | MFA | Novelist The 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 of On the Brink | |
Claudia Emerson | 1979 | Col | 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Poet Laureate 2008 of Virginia | |
Emma Copley Eisenberg | 2014 | MFA | author of The Third Rainbow Girl | |
Linda Fairstein | 1972 | Law | prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan 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 and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation | [39] |
Ted Genoways | 1999 | MFA | Writer, journalist, author | |
Emily Giffin | 1997 | Law | chick lit author | |
W. Douglas Gordon | 1898 | Law | editor Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch | |
David M. Granger | 1981 | Graduate | editor-in-chief of Esquire | [40] [41] |
Julien Green | 1922 | Col | a major figure of French literature of the 20th century | |
Chad Harbach | 2004 | MFA | novelist, author of The Art of Fielding | |
Vashti Harrison | 2010 | Col | Children's book writer, illustrator, filmmaker, and illustrator of Sulwe | |
| | Col | former chief music critic for The New York Times | |
Philip K. Howard | 1974 | Law | writer, author of Life without Lawyers | |
Edward P. Jones | 1981 | Graduate | author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow | |
Mary Beth Keane | 2005 | MFA | Novelist | |
Jack T. Kirby | | MA, Ph.D | historian of the Southern United States, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song | [42] |
Melissa Kirsch | 1996 | Col | author, assistant editor, culture and lifestyle at New 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 of , professor at Bard College | |
Lulu Miller | 2013 | MFA | Writer and Peabody Award winning science reporter for NPR | |
Robert Miskimon | | Non-degreed | novelist, journalist, poet | |
Adam Mitzner | 1989 | Law | Novelist, recipient of the Silver Gavel Awards | |
Arthur D. Morse | | | print and television journalist, and author of While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy | |
David Nolan | 1967 | Col | author and historian | |
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 of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart | |
Sarah Posner | 1990 | Law | Writer and journalist | |
Will Shortz | 1977 | Law | editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle | |
| 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 at University of Virginia | |
William Force Stead | 1905 | Col | Poet and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford | |
Darcey Steinke | | MFA | author | |
Sheryl Gay Stolberg | 1983 | Col | Journalist for the New York Times | |
Ron Suskind | 1981 | Col | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author | |
Aoibheann Sweeney | 2000 | MGA | Novelist, author of Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking | |
Henry S. Taylor | 1964 | Col | novelist, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Flying Change | |
Evan Thomas | 1977 | Law | author, journalist, historian, editor at Newsweek, author of The Wise Men | |
Samantha Thornhill | 2004 | MFA | Poet | |
Jia Tolentino | 2009 | Col | Writer and editor, author of , staff writer at The New Yorker | |
Michael Vitez | 1979 | Col | staff writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Helen Wan | 1998 | Law | novelist, lawyer, author of Partner Track | |
Tia Williams | 1997 | Col | novelist, editor | |
Theodore Wong | Did not graduate | | Translator[43] |
Nikki Ogunnaike | 2007 | Col | Editor in Chief of Marie Claire, | |
Jenna Wortham, | 2004 | Col | author and journalist, culture writer at the New York Times, Black Futures | | |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|
Yasushi Akashi | 1956 | Graduate | Chairman, International House of Japan; former Undersecretary of the United Nations | [45] [46] |
George Allen | 1974, 1977 | Col, Law | Governor and U.S. Senator, Virginia | [47] |
Hanan Ashrawi | 1982 | Graduate | Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process | [48] |
Nathan L. Bachman | 1903 | Law | U.S. Senator, Tennessee; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court | |
Alben W. Barkley | 1900 | Law | 35th Vice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator, Kentucky | [49] |
Evan Bayh | 1981 | Law | U.S. Senator and Governor, Indiana | [50] |
Andy Beshear | 2005 | Law | Governor of Kentucky | |
Kit Bond | 1963 | Law | U.S. Senator, Missouri | |
Alan Stephenson Boyd | 1948 | Law | first United 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 | |
Greg Casar | 2012 | Col | U.S. Congressman, Texas | |
James Paul Clarke | 1878 | Law | United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas | [51] [52] |
John Cornyn | 1995 | Law | U.S. Senator, Texas | |
Joseph T. Curry | | | member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | [53] |
William H. Daingerfield | 1829 | Col | 2nd Mayor of San Antonio; Ambassador | |
Henry Winter Davis | 1841 | Law | outspoken Radical Republican; U.S. Congressman, Maryland | |
Mary DeRosa | 1981 | Col | former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration | |
Hasjim Djala | 1959 | Law | Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; chairman and president of the International Seabed Authority | [54] [55] [56] [57] |
Joseph T. Doyle | 1990 | Graduate | Pennsylvania State Representative | |
William A. Eaton | 1978 | Col | United States Ambassador to Panama, United States Assistant Secretary of State | |
Paul Erickson | 1988 | Law | political consultant | |
William Stamps Farish III | 1962 | Col | U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom | [58] |
William Meade Fishback | 1855 | Law | 17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator, Arkansas | [59] |
Luis Fortuño | 1985 | Law | Governor of Puerto Rico | |
Michael E. Guest | 1981 | Graduate | U.S. Ambassador to Romania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. Ambassador | [60] |
Barbara Halliday | | | Mayor of Hayward, California | |
Mark Herring | 1986 | Graduate | Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia | |
Yan Huiqing | 1900 | Col | Premier and Prime Minister of the Republic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Chinese Representative in the League of Nations | [61] |
Robert M. T. Hunter | 1829 | Col | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senator, Virginia | |
Eppa Hunton | 1843 | Law | CSA Brigadier General; U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, Virginia | |
Louis A. Johnson | 1913 | Law | Second United States Secretary of Defense | |
Brereton Jones | 1961 | Communication | Governor of Kentucky | |
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 of Maine, United States Senator from Maine | |
William Preston Lane Jr. | 1915 | Law | Governor, Maryland | |
| | | U.S. Senator, Illinois and first Whip | |
Sean Patrick Maloney | 1988, 1992 | Col, Law | U.S. Congressman, New York's 18th congressional district and former White House Office of the Staff Secretary | |
Thurgood Marshall Jr. | 1978, 1981 | Col, Law | Former White House Cabinet Secretary | |
Roy Martin | | Commerce | Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1962 –1974), 31st President 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 for LouisianaUnited States House of Representatives | |
Ana Montes | 1979 | Col | convicted Cuban spy | |
Janet Napolitano | 1983 | Law | Governor of Arizona, Secretary of Homeland Security, President of the University of California System | [62] |
Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | U.S. Senator, Florida; NASA astronaut | |
Kirstjen Nielsen | 1999 | Law | 6th Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security | [63] |
Longin Pastusiak | 1959 | Graduate | Marshall of the Senate, Poland | |
Thomas Caute Reynolds | 1838 | Law | 11th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri; Governor of Missouri (Confederate) | [64] |
Chuck Robb | 1973 | Law | Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator | |
Joseph T. Robinson | 1895 | Law | Governor of Arkansas and United 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 | 28th United States Secretary of Labor | |
Faryar Shirzad | 1992 | Law | Advisor to United States President George W. Bush | |
Marc Short | 2004 | Darden | White House Director of Legislative Affairs | |
Michael Signer | | Law | Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia | [65] |
John W. Snow | 1965 | Graduate | United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
Javier Solana | 1968 | Graduate | Spanish former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous European Union foreign policy chief | |
Richard B. Spencer | 2001 | Col | Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, President and director of the National Policy Institute[66] | |
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 | [67] |
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 from Rhode 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 the United States | | |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|
John Backus | | Non-degreed | Inventor of first high-level programming language, FORTRAN, and recipient of the 1977 A.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 the Manhattan Project, pioneer of ultracentrifuge | |
Norman L. Crabill | 1957 | Master of Aeronautical Engineering | Engineer, inventor, author | |
Heber Doust Curtis | 1902 | Graduate | Astronomer who participated in the "Great Debate" with Harlow Shapley, 1920 | |
Patrick G. Forrester | 1989 | Graduate | NASA astronaut | [68] |
Matthew P. Hardy | 1985 | Ph.D.Biology | Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function | [69] |
Karl G. Henize | 1947, 1948 | Col, Graduate | Astronomer
- NASA astronaut
| |
Thomas Marshburn | 1984 | Engineering | NASA astronaut | |
Janet Akyüz Mattei | 1972 | Graduate | astronomer; director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers | |
Leland Melvin | 1991 | Engineering | NASA astronaut | |
Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | NASA astronaut; U.S. Senator, Florida | |
Edward P. Ney | 1946 | Ph.D | astrophysicist
- discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei
| |
| | 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 the International Space Station | |
Phil Plait | 1994 | Graduate | author of Bad Astronomy and Bad Astronomy blog | |
Kathryn C. Thornton | 1977, 1979 | Graduate | NASA astronaut | |
Ann M. Valentine | 1993 | BS | inorganic chemist | |
Alexander N. Vyssotsky | 1927 | Graduate | Astronomer; cataloged Milky Way M dwarf stars | |
Thomas W. Whitaker | 1929, 1931 | MS, Ph.D | Botanist and horticulturist | |
Jeff Wisoff | 1980 | Col | NASA astronaut; engineering professor at Rice University | |
Ralph Elmer Wilson | 1910 | Graduate | Astronomer; Wilson crater on the Moon was co-named after him | |
Carl A. Wirtanen | 1939 | Graduate | Astronomer; discovered a number of asteroids and comets | | |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|
Val Ackerman | 1981 | Col | Founder and former president of WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference | |
Jeff Agoos | 1990 | | Swiss–born American soccer defender | |
Cory Alexander | 1995 | Col | Professional basketball player with the NBA | [70] |
Darion Atkins | 2015 | | Professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
Ronde Barber | 1996 | Communication | Professional football player with Tampa Bay Buccaneers | [71] |
Tiki Barber | 1997 | Communication | Professional football player with the New 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 the Milwaukee Bucks | [72] |
Heather Burge | | | | [73] |
Heidi Burge | 1993 | Col | | |
| 2004 | Col | Professional football player | [74] |
Rick Carlisle | 1984 | Col | Professional football player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks | |
John Choma | 1970 | | Professional football player with the San 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 | | |
Mamadi Diakite | 2020 | | Professional basketball player | [75] |
Daryl Dike | | | Professional soccer player and U.S. men's national team player | |
Jeffrey Eggleston | 2007 | | long-distance runner | |
Carlton Elliott | | | Professional football layer with the Green Bay Packers | |
Alecko Eskandarian | | Col | Major League Soccer - 1 overall draft pick
, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team | |
Paul Ereng | 1993 | Col | 1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters | |
D'Brickashaw Ferguson | 2006 | Col | Professional football player with the New York Jets | |
Mustapha Farrakhan Jr. | | | Professional basketball player | [76] |
Tim Finchem | 1973 | | Commissioner of the PGA 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 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team | |
Al Groh | 1967 | Communications | Former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia football team | |
| | | 1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon winner; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters | |
Kyle Guy | | | Professional basketball player with the Sacramento Kings | [77] |
| | | Professional baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays | |
Darryl Hammond | 1988 | Col | Professional Arena Football League player | |
| | | Professional soccer player and coach | |
Joe Harris | 2014 | | Professional basketball player | [78] |
DeAndre Hunter | | | Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks | [79] |
Adam Haseley | | | Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox | |
Ty Jerome | | | Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns | [80] |
Mike Jones | | | Professional wrestler; under the names Virgil, Vincent, and Curly Moe | |
Thomas Jones | | | Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs | |
Henry Jordan | | | Professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame member | |
Braxton Key | | | Professional basketball player | [81] |
Melanie Kok | | | 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing | |
| | | Professional baseball player | |
Bowie Kuhn | 1950 | Law | | |
Jeff Lamp | | | Professional basketball player | |
Noel LaMontagne | | | Professional football player | |
Sylven Landesberg | | | Professional basketball player | |
Lesley Lehane | | | Winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country in 1982 | [82] |
| | | Professional football player | |
Javier López | | | Professional baseball player with the San Francisco Giants | |
John Loyd | | | College football player and team captain | |
| | | Professional football player | |
Buck Mayer | | | College football player and College Football All-America Team | |
Tony Meola | 1989 | Col | Professional soccer player and World Cup goalkeeper | |
Jerome Meyinsse | 2010 | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
Heath Miller | 2004 | Col | Professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers | |
Eugene Monroe | 2008 | Col | Professional football player with the Jacksonville Jaguars | |
Herman Moore | 1991 | Col | Professional football player | |
| | | Former NFL and CFL player, All–American at UVA | [83] |
Ed Moses | 2004 | Education | Olympic gold medalist in swimming | |
| | | Professional basketball player | [84] |
| 2006 | MS | Professional soccer player | |
| | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and coach with the D.C. United | |
London Perrantes | | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
John Phillips | | | Professional football player | |
Shamek Pietucha | 1999 | Col | Olympic swimmer | |
Chris Rotelli, | 2003 | | Professional lacrosse player | |
John Beverly Pollard | | | College football player and coach | |
Sonny Randle | 1958 | | Professional football player | |
Claudio Reyna | | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and captain of U.S. national team | |
LaRoy Reynolds | | | Professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons | |
| | | Professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals | |
Eppa Rixey | 1912 | Col | Professional baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame member | |
Jake Rozhansky | | | Professional soccer player | |
Ralph Sampson | 1983 | Col | NBA - 1 draft pick
, professional basketball player, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | [85] |
| | | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team | |
Matt Schaub | 2003 | Col | Professional football player with the Houston Texans | |
Michael Schwimer | 2008 | | Professional baseball player with the Philadelphia Phillies | |
| | | Professional basketball player | |
| | | Professional football head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins | |
Chris Slade | 1993 | Col | Professional football player with the New England Patriots | |
Michael Slive | 1965 | Law | Former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) | |
Devin Smith | | | Professional basketball player | |
Emily Sonnett | 2015 | Col | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team | |
Dawn Staley | 1992 | Col | 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, college basketball coach, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | |
| | | Professal baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| | | College football coach and referee | |
DeMya Walker | 1999 | Col | Professional basketball player | |
George Welsh | | | College football player and coach | |
| | | Founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium | |
Monica Wright | 2010 | Col | Professional basketball player | |
Ryan Zimmerman | 2005 | Col | Professional baseball player with the Washington Nationals | | |
Name | Field | UVA position | Notability | References |
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Henry J. Abraham | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Government | scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law | [86] |
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; | |
Julian Bond | History | Professor | Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee;co-founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center | |
John Bonvllian | Psychology | Associate professor | Pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication | [87] |
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 for Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. | |
Meredith Clark | Media Studies | Assistant professor | Expert on Black Twitter | |
Ronald Coase | Economics | | Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 | [88] |
Robert E. Emery | Psychology | Professor and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law | | [89] |
William Faulkner | English | Writer in residence | Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962 | [90] |
Elmer L. Gaden | Biochemistry | Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering | Known as "the father of biochemical engineering". | |
Alfred G. Gilman | Pharmacology | Assistant professor | | |
Larycia Hawkins | Political Science | Associate professor in religious studies and political science | | [91] |
Matthew Holden | Political Science | Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics | former president of the American Political Science Association; former Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin | [92] |
Thomas M. Humphrey | Economy | | Economist for the Federal 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 to Peru | [93] |
Robert S. Kemp | Business | Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce | | [94] |
Charles W. Kent | English | Professor | | |
W. A. Lambeth | Medicine | Professor and athletic director | First athletic director at UVA | |
Jennifer L. Lawless | Political Science | Commonwealth Professor of Politics; faculty affiliate of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | | [95] |
Angeline Stoll Lillard | Psychology | Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor | | [96] |
Dumas Malone | History | Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History | Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time | |
Barry Marshall | Medicine | | | |
Ferid Murad | Biochemstiry, Pharmacology | Professor; Director, Clinical Research Center; and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine | | |
Edward P. Ney | Physics | Assistant Professor | Made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy | |
Brian Nosek | Psychology | Professor | | [97] |
Ken Ono | Mathematics | Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics | Expert on Number Theory and Srinivasa Ramanujan | |
Charlotte Patterson | Psychology | Professor and Director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program | Specialist in the psychology of sexual orientation | [98] |
William B. Quandt | Political Science | Professor in the Department of Politics | Member of the National Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty | [99] |
William Barton Rogers | Philosophy | Department head and faculty | Founded MIT and became its first president | |
Richard Rorty | Philosophy | Kenan Professor of Humanities | influential writer | [100] |
Larry Sabato | Political Science | Professor of politics; founder and director of the Center for Politics | Named the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal | [101] |
James D. Savage | Political Science | Professor of politics; Faculty Affiliate of the Batten School | Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy | [102] |
Antonin Scalia | Law | Professor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | [103] |
Natasha Sheybani | Biomedical Engineering | Assistant professor | First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-PostdoctoralFellow Transition Award | |
William D. Spotnitz | Medicine | Cardiothoracic surgeon, University of Virginia Health System | Researcher in the use of fibrin glue | [104] |
Herbert Stein | Economics | A. Willis Robertson Professor | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers underRichard Nixon and Gerald Ford | |
Peter Taylor | English | | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993 | [105] |
George Tucker | Philoophy | Professor of Moral Philosophy | Early biographer of Thomas Jefferson and member of theU.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 | [106] |
Siva Vaidhyanathan | Media Studies | Robertson professor of Media Studies | Permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate | |
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 | [107] |
Stephen K. White | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Politics | | [108] |
Daniel T. Willingham | Psychology | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | Specialist in cognition related to K –12 education | [109] |
Timothy Wilson | Psychology | Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology | Author of popular books | [110] |
Tibor Wlassics | Italian | Kenan Professor of Italian Studies | Research on the poet Dante Alighieri | [111] |
Brantly Womack | Political Science | Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs | | [112] | |