The University of Virginia is a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is a partial list of its notable alumni, faculty, board members, and rectors.
Col stands for College of Arts and Sciences.
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 | Professor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University | |
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 | ||
Joanne B. Freeman | 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] : 229 |
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 | Professor at Harvard Law School | |
Valerie Smith | 1978, 1982 | Graduate | President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University | [7] |
William G. Thomas III | 1991, 1995 | M.A., Ph.D | History professor at 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 |
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Robert Llewellyn | 1968 | Engineering Science | Photographer | |
Georgia O'Keeffe | Non-degreed | Painter | ||
Nelson Saiers | 1997, 1998 | Col, Graduate | Artist and hedge fund manager |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
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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. | |
PES | 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, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective , 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Danny Avula | Col | Richmond-Henrico Health District Commissioner; Commissioner of Social Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Mayor-elect[ needs update ] of Richmond, Virginia | ||
Mortimer Caplin | 1940 | Law | Internal Revenue Service commissioner | |
James Laurence Cabell | 1833 | President of National Board of Health | ||
James W. Carroll | 1985 | Col | Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
Paul Ilyinsky | 1953 | Col | Three-term mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. American descendant of Russian royalty | |
Robert Mueller | 1974 | Law | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
Paul Craig Roberts | Ph.D. | Undersecretary of the Treasury | ||
Thomas A. Scully | 1979 | Col | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | |
William A. Welch | 1886 | Graduate | General manager of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission | |
Walter Wyatt | 1917 | Law | General Counsel, Federal Reserve System |
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 Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | |
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 | |
Bernard Holland | 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 The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million , 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 | |
Nikki Ogunnaike | 2007 | Col | Editor in chief of Marie Claire , former senior digital director of Harper's Bazaar | [43] [44] [45] |
Breece D'J Pancake | Non-degreed | short-story writer | ||
Kiki Petrosino | 2001 | Col | Poet | |
Hannah Pittard | 2007 | MFA | Novelist | |
Edgar Allan Poe | Non-degreed | Poet, "father of gothic literature", author 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 | |
Safiya Sinclair | 2014 | MFA | Poet | |
Jens Söring | Non-degreed | Autobiographer and writer of social issues, convicted murderer without parole | ||
Lisa Russ Spaar | 1978, 1982 | Col, MFA | Poet, Pushcart Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts, professor 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 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion , 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 [46] | ||
Jenna Wortham, | 2004 | Col | author and journalist, culture writer at the New York Times , Black Futures |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
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Rupert Blue | 1890 | Co | Surgeon General of the United States | |
S. Ward Casscells | 1939 | Medicine | Pioneering orthopedic surgeon, who introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States | |
Francis Collins | 1970 | Col | Director of the Human Genome Project and past director, National Institute of Health | |
Lisa L. Cunningham | Ph.D. | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientific director, | ||
Hugh S. Cumming | 1893 | Medicine | Surgeon General of the United States | |
David John Doukas | 1975 | Col | Clinical bioethics scholar, family physician | |
J. Hartwell Harrison | 1932 | Medicine | Pioneering kidney transplant surgeon | |
Charles T. Pepper | 1855 | Medicine | Physician who surgeon who was the original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company | |
Vivian Pinn | 1967 | Medicine | Former associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health | |
Walter Reed | 1869 | Medicine | Medical researcher and discovered transmission of yellow fever | |
Beverly R. Wellford | 1816 | Graduate | Sixth president of the American Medical Association | |
Hugh H. Young | 1891 | Medicine | Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Augustus Briggs | 1860 | Col | Hebrew scholar and theologian | |
Lloyd R. Craighill | Second Bishop of Anking, China | |||
Carl P. Daw Jr. | MA, Ph.D | executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada | ||
Collins Denny | Graduate | Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1910–1939) | ||
James Addison Ingle | 1885, 1888 | BA, MA | first bishop of the Missionary District of Hankow, China | |
J. William Jones | 1859 | Confederate chaplain, campus minister, Christian author |
Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Backus | Non-degreed | Inventor of 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 | [71] |
Matthew P. Hardy | 1985 | Ph.D.Biology | Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function | [72] |
Karl G. Henize | 1947, 1948 | Col, Graduate | Astronomer; NASA astronaut | [71] |
Thomas Marshburn | 1984 | Engineering | NASA astronaut | [71] |
Janet Akyüz Mattei | 1972 | Graduate | astronomer; director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers | |
Leland Melvin | 1991 | Engineering | NASA astronaut | [71] |
Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | NASA astronaut; U.S. Senator, Florida | [71] |
Edward P. Ney | 1946 | Ph.D | astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei | |
Haller Nutt | Non-degreed | Developer of the Egypto-Mexican cotton hybrid | ||
Charles Pollard Olivier | 1911 | Graduate | astronomer; founder, American Meteor Society | |
Gregory Olsen | 1971 | Graduate | third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station | [71] |
Phil Plait | 1994 | Graduate | author of Bad Astronomy and Bad Astronomy blog | |
Kathryn C. Thornton | 1977, 1979 | Graduate | NASA astronaut | [71] |
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 | [71] |
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 |
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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 | [73] |
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 | [74] |
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 Washington Wizards | [75] | |
Heather Burge | Professional basketball player with the WNBA | [76] | ||
Heidi Burge | 1993 | Col | Professional basketball player with the WNBA | [76] |
Chris Canty | 2004 | Col | Professional football player | [77] |
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 | Professional football player and NFL Hall of Fame | |
Mamadi Diakite | 2020 | Professional basketball player | [78] | |
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 | [79] | ||
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 | |
Margaret Groos | 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 | [80] | ||
Brandon Guyer | Professional baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays | |||
Darryl Hammond | 1988 | Col | Professional Arena Football League player | |
John Harkes | Professional soccer player and coach | |||
Joe Harris | 2014 | Professional basketball player | [81] | |
DeAndre Hunter | Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks | [82] | ||
Adam Haseley | Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox | |||
Ty Jerome | Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns | [83] | ||
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 | [84] | ||
Melanie Kok | 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing | |||
Joe Koshansky | Professional baseball player | |||
Bowie Kuhn | 1950 | Law | former Commissioner of Major League Baseball | |
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 | [85] | ||
Chris Long | Professional football player | |||
Javier López | Professional baseball player with the San Francisco Giants | |||
John Loyd | College football player and team captain | |||
Wali Lundy | 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 | |
Shawn Moore | Former NFL and CFL player, All–American at UVA | [86] | ||
Ed Moses | 2004 | Education | Olympic gold medalist in swimming | |
Trey Murphy III | Professional basketball player | [87] | ||
Bret Myers | 2006 | MS | Professional soccer player | |
Ben Olsen | 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 | |||
Mark Reynolds | 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 | [88] |
Becky Sauerbrunn | 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 | ||
Mike Scott | Professional basketball player | |||
Don Shula | 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 | |
Chris Taylor | Professal baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
Bradley Walker | College football coach and referee | |||
DeMya Walker | 1999 | Col | Professional basketball player | |
George Welsh | College football player and coach | |||
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. | 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 | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
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Jason Kessler | 2009 | Col | Neo-Nazi, white supremacist | |
Otto Warmbier | College student imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion |
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 | [89] |
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 | [90] |
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 | [91] | |
Martha Derthick | Public Administration | Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs | Consummate authority on the Social Security Administration | |
Robert E. Emery | Psychology | Professor and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law | [92] | |
William Faulkner | English | Writer in residence | Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962 | [93] |
Elmer L. Gaden | Biochemistry | Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering | Known as "the father of biochemical engineering". | |
Alfred G. Gilman | Pharmacology | Assistant professor | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
Larycia Hawkins | Political Science | Associate professor in religious studies and political science | [94] | |
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 | [95] |
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 | [96] |
Robert S. Kemp | Business | Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce | [97] | |
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 | [98] | |
Angeline Stoll Lillard | Psychology | Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor | [99] | |
Dumas Malone | History | Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History | Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time | |
Barry Marshall | Medicine | 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology | ||
Ferid Murad | Biochemstiry, Pharmacology | Professor; Director, Clinical Research Center; and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine | 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
Edward P. Ney | Physics | Assistant Professor | Made major contributions to cosmic ray research, | [5] |
Brian Nosek | Psychology | Professor | [100] | |
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 | [101] |
Andrea L. Press | Media Studies and Sociology | William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology | ||
William B. Quandt | Political Science | Professor in the Department of Politics | Member of the National Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty | [102] |
William Barton Rogers | Philosophy | Department head and faculty | Founded MIT and became its first president | |
Richard Rorty | Philosophy | Kenan Professor of Humanities | influential writer | [103] |
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 | [104] |
James D. Savage | Political Science | Professor of politics; Faculty Affiliate of the Batten School | Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy | [105] |
Antonin Scalia | Law | Professor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | [106] |
Natasha Sheybani | Biomedical Engineering | Assistant professor | First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award | |
William D. Spotnitz | Medicine | Cardiothoracic surgeon, University of Virginia Health System | Researcher in the use of fibrin glue | [107] |
Herbert Stein | Economics | A. Willis Robertson Professor | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under | |
Peter Taylor | English | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993 | [108] | |
George Tucker | Philosophy | Professor of Moral Philosophy | Early biographer of Thomas Jefferson and member of the | |
Eric Turkheimer | Psychology | Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology | Specialist in how genes and environments shape the development of human behavior | [109] |
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 | [110] |
Bruce A. Williams | Media Studies | Professor of Media Studies | ||
Stephen K. White | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Politics | [111] | |
Daniel T. Willingham | Psychology | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | Specialist in cognition related to K –12 education | [112] |
Timothy Wilson | Psychology | Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology | Author of popular books | [113] |
Tibor Wlassics | Italian | Kenan Professor of Italian Studies | Research on the poet Dante Alighieri | [114] |
Brantly Womack | Political Science | Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs | [115] |
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