Notable faculty
Nobel laureates
- James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist (1986)
- Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2002)
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary in 2008
- Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
- Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of the Watergate scandal (along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) while he was working at The Washington Post ; retired
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- William Sims Bainbridge
- Shaul Bakhash, scholar of Persian studies; husband of Haleh Esfandiari
- Mary Catherine Bateson, former Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English; Professor Emerita
- Robert Bausch, novelist
- Rei Berroa, poet
- Andrés Boiarsky
- Courtney Angela Brkic, poet
- Alan Cheuse, novelist
- Arthur W. Chickering
- Wilfrid Desan
- Bùi Diễm, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States
- Robert J. Elder, Jr, Air Force Commander
- Marita Golden, novelist
- Gerald L. Gordon
- Joshua Greenberg
- Hugh Gusterson
- Helon Habila
- Deanna Hammond
- Frances V. Harbour
- Hugh Heclo, professor of American politics and winner of John Gaus award
- Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
- Susan Hirsch, legal and linguistic anthropologist
- Anthony P. Hyde, journalist, Chicago Bulls
- Mark N. Katz
- Peter Klappert, poet
- Gary L Kreps
- Thelma Z. Lavine, philosopher
- Suzannah Lessard, writer
- Lawrence W. Levine, historian
- Samuel Robert Lichter, former professor at Princeton University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Yale, and Columbia University
- Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs and scholar of political Islam
- Nadine Meyer, poet
- Robert Nadeau, English professor
- Eric Pankey, poet
- Roy Rosenzweig
- Richard E. Rubenstein
- Clare Shore
- Susan Shreve
- Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian; former director of five presidential libraries [1]
- Rod Smith, poet
- Peter Stearns, American historian and former provost
- Lev Vekker, psychologist
- Rex A. Wade, professor of Russian history
- Margaret R. Yocom
- Mary Kay Zuravleff, novelist
- Jeremy Crampton, cartographer
Department of Economics
- Peter Boettke
- Donald J. Boudreaux
- Henry N. Butler
- Bryan Caplan
- Tyler Cowen
- Christopher Coyne
- Richard H. Fink, Executive Vice President of the Koch Industries
- Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Jack A. Goldstone
- Wendy Lee Gramm
- Robin Hanson
- Laurence Iannaccone
- Manuel H. Johnson, former Vice Governor of the Federal Reserve
- Daniel B. Klein
- Arnold Kling
- Don Lavoie
- Peter T. Leeson
- Kevin McCabe
- Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand
- James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
- Jennifer Roback Morse
- Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk
- George Selgin
- Alex Tabarrok
- Robert Tollison
- Gordon Tullock, developed the public choice theory
- Richard E. Wagner
- Lawrence H. White
- Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Bart Wilson
- Bruce Yandle, Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission
School of Art
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Kevin Avruch, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology and Dean of S-CAR
- Marc Gopin, James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
- Susan Hirsch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
- Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs
Schar School of Policy and Government
- Zoltan Acs
- David S. Alberts, Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Kenneth Button
- Thomas M. Davis, former U.S. Congressman from Virginia.
- Robert Deitz, former Chief Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency.
- Desmond Dinan
- Richard Florida
- William Conrad Gibbons
- Marc Gopin
- Stephen Haseler
- Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency.
- Ellen Laipson, former CEO of The Stimson Center.
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Andrew McCabe, former acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Patrick Mendis, American diplomat and expert on Sino-American relations.
- Patrick Michaels, climatologist.
- Thomas J. Miller, former United States Ambassador to Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Michael Morell, former acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Saskia Popescu, infectious disease epidemiologist
- Bill Schneider, Los Angeles Times contributor and former CNN senior political analyst.
- Jeremy Shearmur
- Louise Shelley
- Richard Norton Smith
- John N. Warfield
College of Science
- Yakir Aharonov (Professor from 2006 to 2008), physicist, known for Aharonov–Bohm effect, winner of National Medal of Science (2009)
- David Albright
- Ken Alibek, Colonel in the Soviet Union in charge of biodefense
- Robert Axtell
- Peter J. Denning
- Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- Klaus Fischer, mathematician.
- Peter A. Freeman
- Rebecca Goldin, mathematician.
- Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science; author.
- Abul Hussam, inventor of the Sono arsenic filter, for which he received the 2007 sustainability prize awarded by the National Academy of Engineering.
- Thomas Lovejoy
- Angela Orebaugh
- Suresh V. Shenoy
- Jagdish Shukla, meteorologist
- Fred Singer
- John P. Snyder, cartographer
- James Trefil, physicist, and author
- Ernst Volgenau, chairman and founder of SRA International
- Edward Wegman, statistician
- Boris Willis
School of Systems Biology
Donald G. Costello College of Business
- Ajay Vinze, dean of the School of Business
- Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
Antonin Scalia Law School
- Jonathan H. Adler, legal commentator and law professor
- Peter Berkowitz
- David Bernstein
- Lawrence J. Block, Federal Judge
- Frank H. Buckley
- Henry N. Butler, Republican candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th congressional district
- Segun Toyin Dawodu – Attorney and Physician
- Susan Dudley, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President George W. Bush
- Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
- Adrian S. Fisher, lawyer, diplomat, and politician during the 1960s and 1970s
- Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association of America
- Sigrid Fry-Revere, founder and president of Center for Ethical Solutions
- Ernest Gellhorn
- Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court
- Neil Gorsuch, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [2] [3] [4] [5]
- William Kovacic, former member of the Federal Trade Commission
- Michael I. Krauss, former Commissioner for Québec's Human Rights Commission
- William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
- James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
- Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute
- Leonard Liggio, Vice President of Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Henry Manne
- James C. Miller III, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan
- John Warwick Montgomery [6]
- Timothy Muris, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Paul F. Nichols, former delegate to the Virginia General Assembly
- Raymond O'Brien
- Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law
- Jeremy A. Rabkin
- Steve Ricchetti, served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration; counselor to Vice President Joe Biden
- Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia; former U.S. Senator
- Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Army JAG officer
- Hans-Bernd Schäfer
- Loren A. Smith, Federal Judge
- Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Michael Uhlmann
- Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
- Todd Zywicki, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism
- Steve Baumann, Chief Executive of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Charley Casserly, General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans
- Craig Esherick, former head coach of the Georgetown basketball team
