- List of University of Georgia people
=Notable Alumni=
Arts and Entertainment
*Bill Anderson, Country musician and songwriter
*Kim Basinger , actress
*John Bell, lead singer for bandWidespread Panic
*Alton Brown , host of "Good Eats "
*Brian Burton , (Danger Mouse), musicianDangerDoom ,Gnarls Barkley
*Mike Chapman , co-creator ofHomestar Runner
*Maria Burgos Chavez , noted sculptor and artist
*Peter Conlon , music promoter
*Tiffany Dupont , actress, most known for roles in "One Night with the King " and "Greek"
*Bobbie Eakes , soap opera actress and singer
*Glenn Gilberti , professional wrestler
*Bill Goldberg , professional football player, professional wrestler and actor
*Lewis Grizzard , humorist
*Colleen Haskell , former reality show contestant and actress
*Josh Holloway , actor
*Raymond Hughes, chorus master of theMetropolitan Opera
*Parker Gispert , lead singer for the band,The Whigs
*Wayne Knight , actor "Newman" from "Seinfeld "
*Kate Michael ,Miss District of Columbia 2006
*Charlie Minor , Music Promoter and Record Executive
*Cyd Moore , children's book illustrator
*Fred Newman, voice actor, composer - sound effects artist on "A Prairie Home Companion "
*Waco O'Guin , actor and producer ofMTV 'sStankervision andThe DAMN! Show
*Pylon,post-punk band; all four members attended the university:Vanessa Briscoe Hay ,Randall Bewley ,Curtis Crowe , andMichael Lachowski .
*R.E.M., popularalternative rock band; all four members attended the university:Michael Stipe ,Peter Buck ,Mike Mills , andBill Berry .
*Pandora Peaks , formeradult model andactress .
*Ryan Seacrest , "American Idol " host
*Sonny Shroyer , actor ("The Dukes of Hazzard ", "Forrest Gump", "Ray")
*Corey Smith , musician, teacher
*Andrew Speaker , Carrier of a rare form of TB. Nicknamed "TB Andy"
*Joey Stinson , actor
*Charles Wadsworth , classical pianist and composer
*Stuart Woods , novelistAthletics
(In alphabetical order)
*Shandon Anderson ,NBA
*Boss Bailey ,NFL linebacker for theDenver Broncos
*Champ Bailey ,NFL cornerback for theDenver Broncos
*Chip Beck , player on thePGA Tour
*Kendrell Bell ,NFL linebacker for theKansas City Chiefs
*Kim Black , Olympic swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 2001
*Kara Braxton ,WNBA forward for theDetroit Shock
*Reggie Brown,NFL wide-receiver for thePhiladelphia Eagles
*Quincy Carter ,NFL quarterback
*Ian Conlon , formerstriker for the U.S. NationalParalympic Soccer Team
*Lisa Coole , swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 1997
*Terrell Davis , formerNFL running back for theDenver Broncos
*Pat Dye , athletic director and football head coach atAuburn University (1981-1992)
*Teresa Edwards ,basketball player in the Olympics, the ABL, and theWNBA
*Ken Farmer , footall, kicker/punter. Injury ended career in 1986
*Vern Fleming ,NBA player, taken 18th in the 1984 NBA draft
*La'Keshia Frett , basketball player in theWNBA
*Vicki Goetze , player on theLPGA Tour
*Bill Goldberg , wrestler in WCW and WWE
*Charles Grant,NFL defensive lineman for theNew Orleans Saints
*David Greene , all time winningest college football quarterback, drafted in 2005 by theSeattle Seahawks
*Forrest Griffin , Americanmixed-martial artist currently competing in the UFC
*Verron Haynes ,NFL running back for thePittsburgh Steelers
*Jarvis Hayes ,NBA 1st round pick (10th overall)Washington Wizards
*Garrison Hearst , formerNFL running back (Arizona Cardinals ,San Francisco 49ers ,Denver Broncos )
*Terry Hoage , formerNFL defensive back for six NFL teams over 13 seasons
*Reese Hoffa , shot putter ranked #1 in the world
*Buckshot Jones , stock-car driver, two-time winner in theNASCAR Busch Series
*Alec Kessler ,NBA 1st round pick (12th overall)Miami Heat
*Kristy Kowal , 2000 Olympic Silver medalist, swimming, NCAA Woman of the Year in 2000
*Franklin Langham , player on thePGA Tour
*Tommy Lyons, formerNFL offensive lineman for theDenver Broncos
*Randy McMichael ,NFL tight-end for theSt. Louis Rams
*Bob McWhorter , football and baseball, Georgia's firstAll-America n
*Mikael Pernfors , tennis pro, twiceNCAA champion, runner-up in 1986French Open Grand Slam Championship.
*Billy Payne, president and chief executive officer of theAtlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
*David Pollack , 3-time footballAll-America n, drafted in 2005 by theCincinnati Bengals
*John Rauch ,NFL "creator" of the "West Coast" style offense, former Coach of theOakland Raiders
*Saudia Roundtree ,Naismith College Player of the Year in 1996
*Theron Sapp ,NFL runningback for thePhiladelphia Eagles andPittsburgh Steelers
*Richard Seymour ,NFL defensive lineman for theNew England Patriots
*D.J. Shockley , season record holder most touchdowns responsible for and most touchdown passes in a season.NFL 2rd string quarterback for theAtlanta Falcons
*Frank Sinkwich ,All-America n football player andHeisman Trophy winner in 1942
*Matt Stinchcomb ,NFL offensive linemanOakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers , 2-time footballAll-America , 1st round 1999 draft
*Jon Stinchcomb ,NFL offensive linemanNew Orleans Saints , football All-American, 2nd round draft choice
*Sheila Taormina , Olympic gold medalist, and only American to participate in the Olympics in three different sports.
*Fran Tarkenton , 9-time Pro-Bowler as quarterback of theNFL Minnesota Vikings andNew York Giants
*Christi Thomas ,WNBA forward for theLos Angeles Sparks
*Odell Thurman ,NFL linebacker for theCincinnati Bengals
*Charley Trippi , College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, two-time Pro Bowl halfback for theChicago Cardinals
*Herschel Walker , retiredNFL running back,Heisman Trophy winner and 3 time footballAll-America n 1982 in 1982
*Hines Ward ,NFL wide-receiver for thePittsburgh Steelers
*Bubba Watson , player on thePGA Tour
*Jermaine Wiggins ,NFL tight-end for theMinnesota Vikings
*Dominique Wilkins ,NBA slam dunk champion for theAtlanta Hawks
*Damien Wilkins ,NBA guard for theSeattle Supersonics Business and industry
*Dan Amos, Chairman & CEO of
AFLAC
*Stephen Bell , Strategic Adviser,Canvas Systems
*D.W. Brooks , founder and chairman emeritus ofGold Kist
*Felicia Joy Browder, former Chief Spokesperson forHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chairman and CEO of Swanqi Holdings Inc. (parent company to Wall Street CHIC [http://www.WallStreetCHIC.com] )
*Maxine Clark, founder ofBuild-A-Bear Workshop
*Brantley Coile , creator ofCisco PIX ,Cisco LocalDirector ,ATA-over-Ethernet and founder ofCoraid , Inc.
*A.D. “Pete” Correll , chairman and CEO ofGeorgia-Pacific Corp
*Tom Cousins , founder of Cousins Properties
*Beverly Dolan, Founder ofEZ-G0 Golf Carts , past President ofTextron
*Rex Fuqua, Fuqua Industries
*Donald Ivestor , Former CEO ofCoca-Cola
*Bill Jones III, The Sea Island Company
*Don Leebern, Georgia Crown
*Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. , President of J.C. Lewis Enterprises and Lewis Broadcasting Corp.
*Hala Moddelmog , president ofChurch’s Chicken
*Billy Morris, Morris Communications
*Jim Nalley, Nalley Automotive
*Billy Payne, President ofAugusta National
*David Barnhart, Network Operations at Hewlett PackardEconomics and finance
*Jim Blanchard, Founder and President of Synovus
*Robert D. McTeer , former president of theFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas (1991–2005)
*Bernard Ramsey , former senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee ofMerrill Lynch
*Charles S. Sanford, Jr. , Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer ofBankers Trust Educators
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Wyatt Anderson , geneticist, professor at UGA and member of the National Academy of Sciences
*Cynthia Kenyon , professor of biochemistry , biophysics,University of California -San Francisco , member National Academy of Sciences
*Robert D. McTeer , chancellor ofTexas A&M University
*Dr. Evan Glazer, Principal ofThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology , a top-ranked magnet school inAlexandria, Virginia Government and the law
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Ellis Arnall , Governor of Georgia
*William Yates Atkinson , Governor of Georgia
* John Barrow, current member of House of Representatives
*Robert Benham , first African-American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
*Charles H. Bronson ,Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
*Howell Cobb , Governor of Georgia and US Representative, Speaker of the House in31st Congress
*Cathy Cox , Secretary of State for the state of Georgia
*William Crosby Dawson , U.S. Senator, judge, politician
*Norman S. Fletcher , Georgia State Supreme Court Chief Justice
*John B. Gordon , General in Confederate Army, a U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia
*Phil Gramm , former U.S. Senator fromTexas
*Joe Frank Harris , Governor of Georgia
*Nathaniel E. Harris , Governor of Georgia
*Chris Jay Hoofnagle ,University of California privacy law expert
*Herschel Vespasian Johnson , Governor of Georgia, U.S. senator, Confederate senator, and candidate for U.S. vice president
* James Johnson, Governor of Georgia and U.S. Representative
*Richard Meno , Connecticut real estate lawyer
*John Milledge ,Governor of Georgia , U.S. Senator and US Representative
*Zell Miller , U.S. Senator, Governor of Georgia, and founder of theHOPE Scholarship
*Sonny Perdue , Georgia Governor
* Ralph Reed, conservative activist and candidate for Lt. Governor of Georgia
*Fred B. Rooney , US Representative fromPennsylvania
*Richard Russell, Jr. , Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
*Carl Sanders , Governor of Georgia
*John Marshall Slaton , Governor of Georgia
*Alexander Stephens , Governor of Georgia and later Vice-President of the Confederate States of America
*Eugene Talmadge , Governor of Georgia
*Herman Talmadge , Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
* Mark Taylor, Georgia Lieutenant Governor
*Melvin E. Thompson , Governor of Georgia
*Ernest Vandiver , Governor of GeorgiaMedia and journalism
(In alphabetical order.)
*Brooke Anderson , a news anchor forCNN
*Deborah Blum , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
*Chip Caray , baseball announcer.
*Jim Currier , Sportswriter for the Coastal Courier in Hinesville, GA. Previously, he won awards at the Bryan County News in Richmond Hill
*Lewis Grizzard , columnist for theAtlanta Journal-Constitution
*Bill Hartman III , sports anchor forWSB-TV
*John Huey , editorial director ofTime, Inc.
*Charlayne Hunter-Gault , CNN International bureau chief inJohannesburg, South Africa
*Ernie Johnson, Jr., sports broadcaster for TNT and TBS
*W. Thomas Johnson , retired chairman, president, and CEO of CNN; former president, publisher, and CEO of "Los Angeles Times"
*Pat Mitchell , former president ofPublic Broadcasting Service and current president of theMuseum of Television and Radio inNew York City
*Julie Moran , host of "Entertainment Tonight "
*Deborah Norville , television journalist
*Wesley M. "Pat" Pattillo , communications director, National Council of Churches
*Ed Pope , sportswriter for theMiami Herald
*Leonard Postero , creator of Leonard's Losers, a syndicated football prognistication radio show
*Ralph Reed, pundit and former director of the Christian Coalition
*Deborah Roberts , ABC News producer and correspondent
*Mark Schlabach , ESPN college football and basketball columnist, formerly of theAtlanta Journal Constitution and Washington Post
*Tommy Tomlinson , columnist for theCharlotte Observer ; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.Medicine
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Hervey M. Cleckley , psychiatrist and co-author of "The Three Faces of Eve"
*Hamilton E. Holmes , orthopedist, professor and associate dean ofEmory University School of Medicine
*Crawford W. Long , inventor of anesthesiaMilitary
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John B. Gordon , General in Confederate Army, a US Senator, and Governor of GeorgiaMinistry and Religion
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Benjamin M. Palmer -- Class of 1838, South Carolina native, first national moderator ofPresbyterian Church , longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856-1902)
*George Foster Pierce -Bishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church, South , President of Georgia Female College and Emory Collegecientific research
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Wyatt Anderson , geneticist, professor at UGA and member of the National Academy of Sciences
*Cornelia Bargmann , anatomy professor at theRockefeller University , investigator atHoward Hughes Medical Institute
*Alfred Blalock , medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock
*A. Jamie Cuticchia , bioinformatics pioneer, director of human genome database
*Cynthia Kenyon , professor of biochemistry , biophysics,University of California -San Francisco , member National Academy of Sciences
*Bruce J. Klein, co-founder of theImmortality Institute , author, and film producerDistinguished faculty and staff
The
University of Georgia has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. It has also been the home of successful athletic coaches. Faculty and staff standouts past and present include:Arts and humanities
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Charles Bullock III , renowned analyst of Southern politics
*Lamar Dodd , nationally recognized artist
*Loch K. Johnson , Leading expert on Intelligence and National Security
*Hugh Kenner , literary scholar and prolific critic, elected toAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Edward J. Larson , professor of history, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion" (Basic Books, 1997)
*William S. McFeely , professor of humanities, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Dean Rusk , former US Secretary of State
*Freddy Wittop ,Tony Award -winningcostume designer
*Judith Ortiz Cofer , internationally recognized writer, and Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative WritingAthletics
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Jack Bauerle , swimming and diving coach
*Wally Butts , football coach
*Jim Donnan , football coach
*Vince Dooley , football coach and Athletic Director
*Damon Evans , Athletic Director and alumnus
*Ray Goff , football coach
*Andy Landers , women's basketball coach
*Dan Magill , tennis coach
*Mark Richt , football coach
*Suzanne Yoculan , women's gymnastics coachEngineering
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S. Edward Law , professor of biological and agricultural engineering, elected toNational Academy of Engineering
*Stuart O. Nelson , adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering elected toNational Academy of Engineering Mathematics
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Andrew Granville , mathematics
*Carl Pomerance , mathematics, a distinguished number theorist,Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture
*Robert Rumely , mathematics, Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely algorithm for proving numbers prime.cientific research
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Jeffrey Bennetzen , molecular geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
*Brent Berlin , anthropologist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Glenn Burton , agronomist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
*John Avise , genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Lois Miller , entomology and genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences
*Norman Allinger chemist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, awarded the Franklin Medal
*Norman Giles , geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Susan R. Wessler , botanist and geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
*Wyatt Anderson , geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences,American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Juergen Wiegel , microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
*Lawrence Shimkets , microbiologist, elected to theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
*William Whitman , microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
*Ying Xu , bioinformatician, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
*Allan Armitage , horticulturist, recipient of the National Educator Award from theAmerican Horticultural Society .
*Eugene Odum , zoologist and groundbreaking pioneer in study ofecology , author of first textbook on the subject
*Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, chemistry, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Murray S. Blum , entomologist, recipient ofLamar Dodd Award , authority onchemical ecology andpheromones
*Stephen Hubbell , plant biology research, elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesChief Executives of the University
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Abraham Baldwin , President (1785 - 1801)
*Josiah Meigs , President (1801 – 1810)
*John Brown, President (1811 – 1816)
*Robert Finley , President (1817)
*Moses Waddel , President (1819 – 1829)
*Alonzo S. Church , President (1829 – 1859)
*Andrew A. Lipscomb , Chancellor (1860 – 1874)
*Henry Holcombe Tucker , Chancellor (1874 – 1878)
*Patrick Hues Mell , Chancellor (1878 – 1888)
*William Ellison Boggs , Chancellor (1889 – 1898)
*Walter Barnard Hill , Chancellor (1899 – 1905)
*David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr. , Chancellor (1906 – 1925)
*Charles Melton Snelling , Chancellor (1925 – 1932)
*Steadman Vincent Sanford , President (1932 — 1935)
*Harmon White Caldwell , President (1935 – 1948)
*Jonathan Clark Rogers , President (1949 – 1950)
*Omer Clyde Aderhold , President (1950 – 1967)
*Frederick Corbet Davison , President (1967 – 1986)
*Henry King Stanford , Interim President (1986 - 1987)
*Charles Boynton Knapp , President (1987 – 1997)
*Michael F. Adams , President (1997-present)
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