List of persons associated with Emory University

__NOTOC__This is a list of influential and newsworthy people affiliated with Emory University, a private university in DeKalb County, Georgia, in Atlanta. The list includes professors, staff, graduates, and former students belonging to one of Emory's two undergraduate or seven graduate schools. This is not a complete list, but a best effort.

A

*Alan Abramowitz - Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science
*Frank Kellogg Allan - Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
*Young John Allen - noted American Methodist missionary in late Qing Dynasty China
*Thomas J. J. Altizer - liberal theologian who postulated in the early 1960's the "death of God"
*Philip A. Amerson – President, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

B

*Sante Uberto Barbieri - Bishop of The Methodist Church in Latin America
*Alben W. Barkley - 35th United States Vice President
*Rowland Barnes - Former Atlanta Superior Court Judge
*Geoffrey Bennington - Literary critic and philosopher, expert on deconstruction
*Harold J. Berman - Founder of the American Law Center in Moscow and co-founder of the World Law Institute
*Stanley F. Birch Jr. - United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
*Sanford Bishop - United States Representative from Georgia
*Merle Black - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Politics and Government
*David Bray - IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000-2005
*David Brinkley - Journalist and television newscaster
*John Glen Browder - Former member of the United States House of Representatives
*Courtney Brown - Associate Professor of political science and remote viewing practitioner
*H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - American author best-known for his book "Life's Little Instruction Book"
*Nathan Philemon Bryan - Former US Senator from Florida
*William James Bryan - Former US Senator from Florida
*Peter Buck - Lead guitarist, R.E.M. (dropped out)
*Kristian Bush - Singer/songwriter/guitarist for the band, Sugarland

C

*Ely Callaway - founder of Callaway Golf
*Warren Akin Candler - American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
*Dennis Carlson - singer-songwriter, Krona
*Cathy Caruth - literary critic and founder of trauma studies
*Jimmy Carter - former President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor since 1982
*Sonny Carter - Astronaut, physician, and professional soccer player
*Kathy Castor - U.S. Congresswoman (D-FL)
*Fala Chen - Chinese-American actress, model, and pageant winner
*Max Cleland - Former United States Senator from Georgia
*John B. Cobb - Process theologian
*Kenneth Cole - Clothing designer
*Marion V. Creekmore, Jr.- former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Republic of Maldives

D

*D. L. Dykes, Jr. (1917-1997) - pastor of First United Methodist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1955-1984; urged racial moderation during civil rights movement

E

*Tinsley Ellis - Blues singer
*Richard Ellmann - late Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar
*Cherry Logan Emerson - Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation funder and distinguished faculty member.

F

*Shoshana Felman - Literary critic, commentator on psychoanalysis, and founder of trauma theory
*James W. Fowler - Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development
*Tillie K. Fowler - Former United States Representative from Florida
*Elizabeth Fox-Genovese - feminist historian and a primary voice of the conservative women's movement

G

*Newt Gingrich - Former United States Speaker of the House
*Jason Goodman - singer-songwriter, Krona
*Joel Godard - Television announcer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien
*Sanjay Gupta - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory; CNN Medical Correspondent
*Lado Gurgenidze - Prime Minister of Georgia
*Tenzin Gyatso - the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama named presidential professor of Emory University

H

*Kristen Hall - Atlanta New-Folk singer-songwriter, roadie for the Indigo Girls
*William P. Harrison - minister and theologian, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
*Ernie Harwell - Baseball broadcaster
*Glenda Hatchett - Star of the television show, "Judge Hatchett"
*C. Robert Henrikson - Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Metlife, Inc.
*Carl Hiaasen - Author (attended the college for two years, then transferred to the University of Florida)
*Spessard Holland - Former Governor of and US senator from Florida
*Isaac Stiles Hopkins - First President of Georgia Institute of Technology
*Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr. - American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
*J. Willis Hurst - former chairman of the Department of Medicine, author, and personal cardiologist to President Lyndon Johnson

J

*Narasimhan Jegadeesh - Dean's Distinguished University Chair in Finance at the Goizueta Business School
*Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. - CEO, Publix
*Ha Jin - Chinese-American writer, formerly a Professor of English at Emory; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist
*Bobby Jones - Golfer and founder of The Masters Tournament
*James F. Jones - 21st president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

K

*Will Kirby - Winner of the American reality television show Big Brother 2
*Harvey Klehr - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History
*Melvin Konner - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
*Benn Konsynski - George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis at the Goizueta Business School
*Edward E. Kramer - American editor and author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and horror works

L

*Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II) - Former United States Supreme Court Justice and Senator from Mississippi
*Steven Jack Land - Noted renewal theologian within the Pentecostal movement
*Elliott Levitas - Former U.S. Congressman
*Dennis C. Liotta - Professor of Chemistry
*Deborah Lipstadt - Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and author of "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory" (1994)
*Natalia Livingston - Emmy Award-winning actress on the soap opera "General Hospital"
*Michael Lomax - President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Negro College Fund
*Richard Carl Looney - Retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
*Jean-François Lyotard - late Robert Woodruff Professor and prominent French philosopher

M

*Dumas Malone - Pulitzer Prize winning historian, former head of Harvard University Press
*Christopher McCandless - Subject of "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
*Keiji Morokuma - William Henry Emerson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Director of the Emerson Center

N

*Sam Nunn - Former United States Senator from Georgia
*Joe Negron - Replacement Republican candidate for the Mark Foley Congressional seat in Florida in 2006
*Eric Nelson - Director of Choral Studies. Conductor of Emory’s 40-voice Concert Choir and its 180-voice University Chorus. In 2004, he was the recipient of a "Crystal Apple" award for excellence in teaching at Emory University.
*Duncan L. Niederauer - CEO, NYSE Group (MBA)

P

*George Page - Television host, known for his work on the PBS series "Nature"
*Arnall Patz - Ophthalmology researcher and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
*Tom Price - Member of United States House of Representatives

Q

*Han Qide (韩启德) - Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress of China; previously with Emory School of medicine 1985-1987 and Woodruff Medal Winner in 2006

R

*Amy Ray - Singer, the Indigo Girls
*Eleanor Randolph - Journalist, The New York Times
*Thomas M. Rivers - Famous virologist, headed the National Science Foundation's search for a polio vaccine
*Harriet Robinson - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Director, Microbiology and Immunology at Yerkes Primate Center
*Barbara Rothbaum - Psychologist and head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory
*Paul Rubin - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law
*Salman Rushdie - author and literary scholar
*Kai Ryssdal - Host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations affiliated with American Public Media

*Don Saliers - William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship
*Emily Saliers - Singer, the Indigo Girls
*Ferrol A. Sams Jr. - Humorist and best-selling author of "Run with the Horsemen"
*Leah Ward Sears - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Georgia
*Jagdish Sheth - Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School
*Claude Sitton - Pulitzer Prize winner (1983) and former New York Times national editor
*Andy Slater - President and CEO, Capitol Records
*Luther Martin Smith -First Emory Alumnus President, 1867-1871 [Emory University website http://www.emoryhistory.emory.edu/people/presidents/LMSmith.htm] . Luther was the uncle of 19th century badman Soapy Smith
*Stephen Spender - Artist in residence, mid-1980's
*Jack Stahl - former President and CEO, Revlon
*Eugene A. Stead - Noted medical educator, researcher, and the founder of the Physician Assistant profession
*Carl Singer - an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. Served on Board of Trustees for Emory.
*Kenneth Stein - William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies
*Tom Stewart - Former United States Senator from Tennessee
*Vaidy Sunderam - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Computer Science

T

*Mark Fletcher Taylor - Former lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia
*Edward L. Thomas - Confederate general during the American Civil War
*Natasha Trethewey - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and associate professor of creative writing

U

V

*Bob Varsha - Auto racing broadcaster, currently for SPEED Channel

W

*Frans de Waal - Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
*Melissa Wade - Noted debate coach and leader in the Urban debate league movement
*James W. Wagner - University President, 2003-present
*Daniel Wallace - Author of Big Fish
*Robert Wexler - Congressman from Florida (attended the college for two years, then transferred to the University of Florida)
*Thomas B. Wells - Judge of the United States Tax Court
*Eugene Williams, Jr. - Former child actor, author, educator, motivational speaker
*Robert W. Woodruff - Former President of the Coca-Cola Company (left to work at Coca-Cola after two semesters)
*C. Vann Woodward - Pulitzer Prize winning historian

X

Y

*Altan Yenicay - Prominent Turkish-American physician.

Z

Notes

References

*"Emory University," "New Georgia Encyclopedia". Retrieved July 1, 2006: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
*Gleason, Jan. "Emory ranked 9th-best national university by U.S. News & World Report magazine" in "Emory Report" (Atlanta: Emory Report, 1997), Volume 50 No. 1.
*Hauk, Gary S. "A Legacy of Heart and Mind : Emory since 1836" (Atlanta: Emory University, developed and produced by Bookhouse Group, Inc., 1999).
*Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University," in "Emory College Catalog 2003-2005" (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9-15.