List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni

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This page lists notable alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Contents 1 Academia 2 Arts and literature 3 Business 4 Entertainment and broadcasting 5 Politics and public life 6 Sciences 7 Sports 8 Miscellaneous

[edit] Academia

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Dan Ariely	Grad.	Cognitive Psychology	Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics and Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University
Erskine Bowles	1967	Business administration	President of the University of North Carolina, former U.S. Senate candidate, and former White House Chief of Staff
Albert Coates	1918	Arts & Sciences	Founder and Director of the Institute of Government University of North Carolina
Mary Sue Coleman	Grad.	Biochemistry	Current President of the University of Michigan
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor	1899	Philosophy	UNC professor, historian, and Archivist of the United States
David L. Downie	Ph.D.	Political Science	Author; Commentator; Professor of Politics and Environment Policy at Fairfield University
Elson S. Floyd	1984 / Ph.D.	Higher and Adult Education	President of Washington State University
William C. Friday	Grad.	Law	Former President of the University of North Carolina
Carol Garrison	1974 / Grad.	Epidemiology	Current President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Glenda Gilmore	Grad.	History	Peter V. & C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
Christina Kramer	Grad.	Slavic languages and literature	Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages at University of Toronto
Charles Duncan McIver	1881		Founder of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Heather Monroe-Blum	Grad.	Epidemiology	Current Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
William L. Pollard	Grad.	Social Work	President of Medgar Evers College
David Robinson	Grad.	Business Administration	Professor of Marketing at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Holden Thorp	1986	Chemistry	Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Odd Arne Westad	Grad.	History	Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Convenor of the International History Department

[edit] Arts and literature

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Richard Adler	1943	Dramatic art	Composer and lyricist
Daphne Athas	1943	English	Novelist
Russell Banks	1967	English	Novelist and poet
Furman Bisher	1938	Journalism	Sportswriter and editor
Edgar Bowers	1950		Poet
Taylor Branch	1968		Author and historian
Poppy Z. Brite			Novelist
Frank Bruni	1986	English	Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times
Hayden Carruth	1943	Journalism	Poet and winner of the National Book Award
Helene Cooper	1987	Journalism	New York Times correspondent
Cid Corman			Poet and translator
Sarah Dessen	1993	English	Writer and author
Clyde Edgerton	1966 / Grad.	English	Novelist
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1941	Journalism	Poet and publisher
Thomas Fleming	Grad.	Classics	Writer and founding editor of neo-confederate journal Southern Partisan
Shelby Foote	1992	Honorary	Historian and novelist
Ben Fountain	1980	English	Writer and author
Charles Frazier	1973		Novelist
Peter Gammons	1967		Sportswriter and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Brent Glass	Grad.	History	Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Gail Gregg	1975	Journalism	Artist, photographer and journalist
Paul Green	1921	Dramatic art	Playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner
Patrick Herron	1993 / Grad.	Philosophy and Information Science	Poet and Information Scientist
Kermit Hunter	Grad.	Dramatic art and English	Playwright
Alexander Julian	1969		Fashion designer
Donald Justice	Grad.	English	Poet
Richard Kern	1977	Art	Photographer
Randall Kenan	1985	English	Writer
Paul R. Laird	Grad.	Music	Musicologist
Amon Liner	1965	Dramatic art	Poet and playwright
Howard Little			Artist
Ben Long	1967		Artist
Tristan Louis	1993	Journalism	Author and journalist
Jeff MacNelly			Editorial cartoonist
William Matthews	Grad.	English	Poet
Armistead Maupin	1966	English	Novelist
Michael McFee	1976 / Grad.	English	Poet
Richard McKenna	1956	Arts & Sciences	Novelist
Lawrence Naumoff	1969	Arts & Sciences	Novelist
Mary Pope Osborne	1971	Religious Studies	Author
Walker Percy	1937	Arts & Sciences	Novelist
Vermont C. Royster	1935	Journalism	Former editor of the Wall Street Journal
James Surowiecki	1988	History	Journalist for The New Yorker and author of The Wisdom of Crowds
Ami Vitale	1994	International studies	Photographer and journalist
Daniel Wallace	2008	English	Novelist and teacher
Tom Wicker	1948	Journalism	Author and New York Times journalist
C. Vann Woodward	Grad.	History	Historian
Thomas Wolfe	1920	Arts & Sciences	Novelist
Jonathan Yardley	1961	English	Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington Post
Jim Yardley	1986	History	Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter

[edit] Business

Name	Class	Major	Notability
David Gardner	1988	English	Co-founder of The Motley Fool
Bowman Gray, Sr.	1890	Did not graduate	Former President and Chairman of R.J. Reynolds
William B. Harrison, Jr.	1966	Economics	Former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase
Walter E. Hussman, Jr.	1969	Journalism	Publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock
Richard "Dick" Jenrette	1951		Founder of the Wall Street firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Chairman and CEO of world insurance leader The Equitable from 1990 to 1996
Sallie Krawcheck	1987	Journalism	Chairman and CEO of Citigroup Global Wealth Management and former CFO of Citigroup Inc.
Hugh McColl	1957	Business administration	Former CEO of Bank of America
Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III	1967	Business administration	Finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and a U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Julian Robertson	1955	Business administration	Founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp.
Ken Thompson	1973	American studies	Former Chairman and CEO of Wachovia
Dwight Anderson	1994	Business Administration	Founder & Head Portfolio Manager of Ospraie Asset Management L.P.
John Allison	1971	Business Administration	Chairman, BB&T Corporation/Branch Banking & Trust Co

[edit] Entertainment and broadcasting

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Whit Bissell	1932	Arts & Sciences	Actor
Lewis Black	1970	Dramatic art	Comedian and playwright
Marty Brennaman	1965	Radio, television & motion picture	Sportscaster
David Brinkley	-	Did not graduate	Television journalist
Howie Carr	1973	Journalism	Radio personality
Meg Christian	1968	Music	Singer and founder of lesbian record company, Olivia
Dan Cortese	1990	Radio, television & motion picture	Actor and TV personality
Billy Crudup	1990	Speech	Actor
Michael Cumpsty	1982 / Grad.	English / Dramatic art	Actor
Rick Dees	1972	Radio, television & motion picture	Radio personality and composer of novelty song "Disco Duck"
Anoop Desai	2008	Political science and American studies	American Idol 6th place finalist, singer
Laurie Dhue	1990	Political science	TV news anchor, reporter
Woody Durham	1963	Radio, television & motion picture	Sportscaster and voice of the Tar Heels
Melissa Claire Egan	2003	Dramatic art	Soap opera actress, Annie Lavery on All My Children.
John Forsythe	1948		Actor
Louise Fletcher	1957	Dramatic art	Actress
Rick Fox	1994	Radio, television & motion picture	Actor & former professional basketball player
Peter Gammons			Sportscaster and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Andy Griffith	1949	Dramatic art	Actor, comedian, writer, and producer
George Grizzard	1949	Radio, television & motion picture	Actor
Brian Hargrove	1977	Dramatic art	American TV writer and producer
Kit Hoover	1992	Speech	Television personality
Liza Huber			Soap opera actress (formerly Gwen Hotchkiss on Passions), daughter of Susan Lucci.
Kwame Jackson	1996	Business administration	Finished third in "The Apprentice"
Brendan James	2002	Communications	American singer and songwriter
Ken Jeong	Grad.	Medicine	Actor and comedian
Darwin Joston			Actor
Ben Jones			Actor and former U.S. Representative from Georgia
Carl Kasell	1956		Radio personality
Charles Kuralt	1965	Radio, television & motion picture	Journalist
Kay Kyser	1928	Economics	Popular bandleader, radio personality, and movie actor in the 1930s and 1940s
Jim Lampley	1971	English	Sportscaster
Sharon Lawrence	1983	Journalism	Emmy Award nominated actress
Michael Louden			Actor
Jeff MacNelly	1969	Art	Creator of Shoe comic strip
Chris Matthews	Grad.	Did not graduate	Television personality and speechwriter for President Carter
Tift Merritt	2000		Singer
Mick Mixon	1980	Radio, television & movie picture	Sportscaster and voice of the Carolina Panthers
Wes Moss	1998	Economics	Contestant on "The Apprentice 2" who now teaches at Emory University.
Roger Mudd	Grad.	History	Journalist and broadcaster
Oliver	1967	Radio, television & motion picture	Pop singer
David Olney	-	Did not graduate	Musician
Jack Palance	1949		Actor (transferred to Stanford and graduated from there)
Michael Piller	1970	Radio, television & motion picture	Writer for and Co-Creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager
Peyton Reed	1986	Radio, television & motion picture	Director of Bring It On and The Break-Up
Jeff Richards	1998	Communications	Actor and comedian
Stuart Scott	1987	Radio, television & motion picture	Sportscaster
Rick Sebak	1975	English	WQED personality
Jay Thomas			Actor and winner of Emmy Award for portraying "Jerry Gold" in "Murphy Brown"
Hughes Winborne			Film editor and 2005 Academy Award-nominee for Crash

[edit] Politics and public life

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Charles B. Aycock	1880	Oratory and essay writing	Former Governor of North Carolina
Thomas Hart Benton	-	Did not graduate	Former Senator from Missouri
James A. Beaty, Jr.	Grad	Law	Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
James H. "Jim" Brown			Former Louisiana state senator, secretary of state, and insurance commissioner and father of journalist Campbell Brown
Tod Robinson Caldwell	1840		19th Century governor of North Carolina
Gaston Caperton			Former Governor of West Virginia
Peter Carlisle			Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu
Henry Selby Clark			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Henry Toole Clark	1826 / Grad.		19th Century governor of North Carolina
Roy Cooper			Current North Carolina Attorney General
Steve Cowper			Former Governor of Alaska
Locke Craig	1880		Former governor of North Carolina
Francis Burton Craige			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
William C. Cramer			U.S. Representative from Florida
Walter H. Dalton	1971 / Grad.	Law	Current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
John Reeves Jones Daniel			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Clifton Daniel III			Episcopal Bishop and noted North Carolina native
Jonathan W. Daniels			Former White House Press Secretary
Walter E. Dellinger III			Former United States Solicitor General
Richard Spaight Donnell			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Mike Easley			Former Governor of North Carolina
Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.	Grad.	Law	Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Elizabeth Edwards			Attorney and wife of John Edwards
John Edwards	Grad.	Law	Former Senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president, and 2004 and 2008 Democratic primary candidate for presidential nomination
John Willis Ellis	1841		19th Century governor of North Carolina
John C. B. Ehringhaus	1902		Former governor of North Carolina
Samuel James Ervin Jr.	1917		Former Senator from North Carolina, member of The Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices
Thad A. Eure			North Carolina Secretary of State
Daniel Munroe Forney			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Virginia Foxx			U.S. Representative from North Carolina elected in 2004
Henry E. Frye	Grad.	Law	Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, first African American chief justice
Oliver Max Gardner	Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina
William Alexander Graham			19th century US Senator and Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, Vice-Presidential Candidate, and CSA Senator.
C. Boyden Gray	Grad.	Law	Former White House Counsel (Law School Graduate); Current Ambassador to the EU
Clyde R. Hoey	Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina
Luther H. Hodges	1919		Former governor of North Carolina
James Holshouser	Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina
Thomas Michael Holt		Did not graduate	19th Century governor of North Carolina
Robin E. Hudson	Grad.	Law	Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Jim Hunt			Former governor of North Carolina
Ben Jones			Former U.S. Representative from Georgia and actor
William R. King	1803		13th Vice President of the United States
William Walton Kitchin	Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina
Howard Nathaniel Lee			Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education
William Carter Love			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Allard Lowenstein			Former U.S. Representative from New York
Charles Manly	1814		19th Century governor of North Carolina
Kevin Martin			Current Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Mark Martin	Grad.	Law	Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
John Y. Mason			Former United States Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy
Mike McIntyre			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Angus Wilton McLean	1892 / Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina
Anderson Mitchell			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Brad Miller			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
William Miller		Did not graduate	19th Century governor of North Carolina
Dan K. Moore	1927 / Grad.	Law	Former governor of North Carolina, former justice of N.C. Supreme Court
James Turner Morehead			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
John Motley Morehead	1817		19th Century governor of North Carolina
William Dunn Moseley			1st Governor of the State of Florida
William H. Murfree			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Paul Martin Newby	Grad.	Law	Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Alfred O. P. Nicholson			Former Senator from Tennessee
Mike Nifong			District attorney for Durham County, North Carolina during the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case
John Owen		Did not graduate	Former Governor of North Carolina
Sarah Parker	Grad.	Law	Current chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Ebenezer Pettigrew			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
James K. Polk			11th President of the United States
David Price			U.S. Representative from North Carolina (represents the district where UNC is located)
Thomas Hart Ruffin			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Daniel Lindsay Russell		Did not graduate	19th Century governor of North Carolina
Terry Sanford	1939 / Grad.	Law	Former Senator from and Governor of North Carolina and President of Duke University
Samuel Tredwell Sawyer			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Alfred Moore Scales		Did not graduate	19th Century governor of North Carolina
Hunter Scott			History Activist and Lobbyist
Charles Biddle Shepard			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
John Shelby Spong			Episcopal Bishop and liberal theologian
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr	1815		19th Century governor of North Carolina, governor of Florida, and U.S. representative from North Carolina
Ruth Carter Stapleton			Evangelist, sister of Jimmy Carter
David Lowry Swain		Did not graduate	19th Century governor of North Carolina
Patricia Timmons-Goodson	1976 / Grad.	Speech / Law	Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
William B. Umstead	1916		Former Governor of North Carolina, U.S. representative from North Carolina
Zebulon Baird Vance			Former Governor of North Carolina
Shari Villarosa			Acting ambassador to Burma
Mel Watt			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Paul Wellstone			Former Senator from Minnesota
Lewis Williams			U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Melody Barnes			Director of the Domestic Policy Council for the Obama administration
Warren Winslow			19th Century governor of North Carolina and U.S. Representative from North Carolina

[edit] Sciences

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Francis Collins (geneticist)	Grad.	Medicine	Director National Human Genome Project, discovered gene for cystic fibrosis
Robert F. Furchgott	1937	Chemistry	Chemist and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Seymour Geisser	Grad.	Statistics	Statistician and DNA evidence expert, founder of the University of Minnesota's School of Statistics
Howard T. Odum	1947	Zoology	Ecosystem ecologist
Tamara Sher	Grad.	Psychology	NIH Researcher and IIT Professor

[edit] Sports

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Russ Adams			Professional baseball player
Sam Aiken			Professional football player
Ethan Albright			Professional football player
Matthew Baker			Professional football player
Daniel Bard			Professional baseball player
Jim Beatty			First person to run a four-minute mile indoors
Gregg Berhalter			Professional soccer player
Dré Bly			Professional football player
Larry Brown			College and professional basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Vince Carter	2001		Professional basketball player
Ed Cota			Professional basketball player
Sylvia Crawley			Professional basketball player
Alge Crumpler			Professional football player
Ronald Curry			Professional football player
Billy Cunningham			Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Scot Dapp			College football coach
Brad Daugherty			Former professional basketball player and sportscaster
Hubert Davis			Professional basketball player
Walter Davis			Professional basketball player
James Delany			Commissioner of the Big Ten
Matt Doherty			College basketball coach
Greg Ellis			Professional football player
Raymond Felton			Professional basketball player
Shalane Flanagan			Distance runner
Phil Ford			Professional basketball player
Joseph Forte			Professional basketball player
Rick Fox			Professional basketball player and actor
George Glamack			Professional basketball player
Moonlight Graham			Professional baseball player
Danny Green	2009	Communications	Professional basketball player
Adam Greenberg			Professional baseball player
Mia Hamm			Former U.S Women's National Team soccer player
Tyler Hansbrough	2009	Communications	Professional basketball player
Jeff Hayes			Professional football player
Brendan Haywood	2001		Professional basketball player
William Henderson			Professional football player
Gary Hill			Professional baseball player
Jesse Holley			Professional football player
Chris Iannetta			Professional baseball player
Antawn Jamison			Professional basketball player
Allen Johnson			Former track and field athlete
Bobby Jones			Professional basketball player
Marion Jones			Former track and field athlete and basketball player
Michael Jordan		Geography	Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Charlie Justice			Professional football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
George Karl			Professional basketball coach
Mitch Kupchak			Professional basketball player and general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers
Ivory Latta			Female Professional basketball player
Ty Lawson			Professional basketball player
Kristine Lilly			U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
Davis Love III			Professional golfer
George Lynch			Professional basketball player
Sean May			Professional basketball player
Bob McAdoo			Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Rashad McCants			Professional basketball player
Don McCauley			Consensus All-American and professional football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Jeff McInnis			Professional basketball player
Andrew Miller			Professional baseball player
Doug Moe			Professional basketball player and coach
Nick Monroe			Professional tennis player
David Noel			Professional basketball player
Ademola Okulaja			Professional basketball player
Heather O'Reilly			U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
Earl Owens			Professional runner and triathlete
Cindy Parlow			Former U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
Willie Parker			Professional football player
Julius Peppers			Professional football player
Sam Perkins		Radio, Television and Motion Pictures	Professional basketball player
Eddie Pope			Professional soccer player
Ashley Prange			Professional golfer
Jeff Reed			Professional football player
Dexter Reid			Professional football player
J.R. Reid			Professional basketball player
Brian Roberts			Professional baseball player (transferred to the University of South Carolina)
Henrik Rödl			Professional basketball player and coach
Lennie Rosenbluth			Professional basketball player
Jeff Saturday			Professional football player
Charlie Scott			Professional basketball player
Paul Shuey			Professional baseball player
Brian Simmons			Professional football player
Kenny Smith			Professional basketball player and basketball analyst
Kyle Snyder			Professional baseball player
Jerry Stackhouse			Professional basketball player
B.J. Surhoff			Former Professional baseball player
John Swofford			Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference
Lawrence Taylor			Professional football player and member of the Football Hall of Fame
David Thornton			Professional football player
Rasheed Wallace			Professional basketball player
Donnie Walsh			President of New York Knicks, former CEO of Indiana Pacers
Art Weiner			College Football Hall of Fame
Walt Weiss			Former professional baseball player
Cindy Werley			U.S. Olympic field hockey player
Cat Whitehill (née Reddick)			United States Women's National Team soccer player
Marvin Williams			Professional basketball player
Roy Williams			Current North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Scott Williams			Professional basketball player
Shammond Williams			Professional basketball player
Joe Wolf			Professional basketball player
Al Wood			Professional basketball player
Brad Woodall			Professional baseball player
James Worthy			Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Brandan Wright			Professional basketball player

[edit] Miscellaneous

Name	Class	Major	Notability
Rye Barcott	2001	Peace, War, and Defense	Founder of Carolina for Kibera
Caleb Bradham	1890		Pharmacist and inventor of Pepsi-Cola
Charles E. Brady, Jr.	1971	Pre-medicine	Astronaut
Eve Carson	2008	Biology and Political Science	Student Body President, Murdered in 2008
Hinton James	1798	Arts and Sciences, Civil Engineering[citation needed]	First student to register
Julia Compton Moore			Wife of Hal Moore
Charles Moose	1975	History	Former police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland who investigated Beltway snipers in 2002
Johnston Pettigrew	1847	Arts & Sciences	Confederate General in the American Civil War who participated in Pickett's Charge
Jonathan Reckford		Political Science	CEO of Habitat for Humanity International
William E. Thornton	1952 / Grad.	physics, medicine	Astronaut

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