Notable Alumni of West Virginia University

Actors and Actresses

*Antoine Fuqua - noted director of Training Day, Shooter, Replacement Killers, etc. Attended, but did not graduate.
*Cheryl Hines - Actress from Curb Your Enthusiasm; attended but did not graduate
*Kathleen Noone - portrays Edna Wallace on the NBC soap opera "Passions," known to have attended.
*Don Knotts - television and movie actor
*Chris Sarandon - television and movie actor, voice of "Jack Skellington"
*David Selby - actor

Athletics

*Terry Bowden - Yahoo Sports Analyst
*Tommy Bowden - Head Football Coach at Clemson University
*Marc Bulger - St. Louis Rams Quarterback
*Gale Catlett - winningest coach in WVU basketball history
*Mike Compton - Former NFL Guard
*Mike Gansey - Basketball player
*Major Harris - Quarterbacked for West Virginia in their 1988 undefeated season.
*Johannes "Joe" Herber - German international basketball player
*Chris Henry - NFL wide receiver
*Jeff Hostetler - Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders & New York Giants Quarterback
*Chuck Howley - WVU Five Sport Letterman, NFL Linebacker and Super Bowl MVP with Dallas Cowboys
*Sam Huff - NFL Linebacker, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
*Rodney Clark (Hot Rod) Hundley - First pick in the 1957 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals.
*James Jett - All-American sprinter and wide receiver for Los Angeles and Oakland Raiders.
* Adam "Pacman" Jones - Starting cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys
*Brian Jozwiak - Former lineman, Kansas City Chiefs.
*Ken Kendrick - owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball
*Steve Kline - Major League Baseball Pitcher
*Adrian Murrell - Former running back for NY Jets.
*Dan Mozes - First Team All American Center, won the Rimington Trophy in his senior year,went undrafted.
*Kevin Pittsnogle - Former WVU basketball star
*Bob Huggins - Former WVU basketball player. Current Head Basketball Coach of the WVU Mens Basketball Team. One of only 4 active Division I coaches with 600+ career victories.
*Jerry Porter - Wide Receiver Jacksonville Jaguars
*Rich Rodriguez - Current head football coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines.
*Todd Sauerbrun - NFL punter, Went to the Pro Bowl in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
*Floyd B. "Ben" Schwartzwalder - Former head coach of the 1959 National Championship Syracuse University football team
*Darryl Talley - The assassin, WVU all-time team member
*John Thornton - defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals
*Mike Vanderjagt - former Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys placekicker
*Jerome Alan "Jerry" West - WVU & NBA basketball player, Model for NBA Logo

Authors

*Maggie Anderson - poet
*Allen Appel - writer
*Matt Carson - novelist
*Stephen Coonts - New York Times bestselling author
*Chuck Kinder - novelist
*Ann Pancake - author

Business

*John Chambers - President and CEO of Cisco Systems
*Karen S. Evans - "de facto" CIO of the United States [cite web|author=Vijayan, Jaikumar|title=White House cuts paper out of federal budget |url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9056838|work=Computerworld|publisher=IDG|date=January 10, 2008|accessdate=2008-06-29]

Education

*Charles M. Vest - President Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Military

*Ret. Gen. Earl E. Anderson - Marine Corps General
*Gen. Bantz J. Craddock - United States Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe
*Brig. Gen. Frank Kendall Everest, Jr - test pilot and pioneer of rocket aircraft
*Gen. Robert H. Foglesong - Retired, Commander, US Air Force in Europe; President of Mississippi State University

Music

*Velvet Brown - Tuba soloist, music educator
*Jay Chattaway - a Star Trek music score writer
*Fuzzy Knight - writer of the WVU Fight Song and Country Western Actor
*Kathy Mattea - Country music singer

Politics

*Carl George Bachmann - U.S. Congressman, Republican Minority Whip 1931-1933
*William Wallace Barron - 26th Governor of West Virginia
*Frank L. Bowman was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives
*Becky Cain - past president of the League of Women Voters
*William G. Conley - 18th Governor of West Virginia
*William Harrison Courtney - special assistant to President Clinton
*William E. Glasscock - 13th Governor of West Virginia
*Howard Mason Gore - 17th Governor of West Virginia
*Kathleen M. Hawk - Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
*Robert Lynn Hogg - Represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1930-1933
*Sen. Harley M. Kilgore - chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization during World War II
*Nancy Jacobs - Maryland State Senator (1973).
*Tim Mahoney (politician) - U.S. Congressman from Florida
*Darrell McGraw - Current West Virginia Attorney General, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court
*Joe Manchin - The 34th Governor of West Virginia
*William C. Marland - 24th Governor of West Virginia
*M. Blane Michael - Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
*Alan Mollohan - United States Congressman
*Arch A. Moore, Jr. - 28th & 30th Governor of West Virginia
*Ephraim F. Morgan - 16th Governor of West Virginia
*Matthew M. Neely - 22nd Governor of West Virginia
*Asra Nomani - former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and Islamic reform and feminism activist
*Jeff Pyle - Pennsylvania State Representative
*Stuart F. Reed - politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives
*Paul S. Stull, member Maryland House of Delegates.
*John G. Trueschler, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1979).
*Cecil H. Underwood - Youngest (25th) and oldest (32nd) Governor of West Virginia

cience

*Jon McBride - astronaut

Other Notable Alumni

*Patrice King Brown - news anchor at KDKA-TV, the CBS television station in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania
*Patsy Ramsey - mother of JonBenét Ramsey and 1977 Miss West Virginia
*Melanie Lofton - News Anchor at WHSV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Harrisonburg, Virginia
*Frank Kearns - Foreign correspondent/broadcast journalist CBS News 1953-1971; and WVU Professor of Journalism 1971-1983 (died 1986)

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