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 band Widespread Panic
• Alton Brown, host of Good Eats
• Brian Burton, (Danger Mouse), musician DangerDoom, Gnarls Barkley
• Mike Chapman, co-creator of Homestar 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 the Metropolitan 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 of MTV's Stankervision and The Damn! Show
• Pylon, post-punk band; all four members attended the university: Vanessa Briscoe Hay, Randall Bewley, Curtis Crowe, and Michael Lachowski.
• R.E.M., popular alternative rock band; all four members attended the university: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry.
• Pandora Peaks, former adult model and actress.
• 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, novelist

Athletics

(In alphabetical order)

• Shandon Anderson, NBA
• Boss Bailey, NFL linebacker for the Detroit Lions
• Champ Bailey, NFL cornerback for the Denver Broncos
• Chip Beck, player on the PGA Tour
• Kendrell Bell, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Kim Black, Olympic swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 2001
• Kara Braxton, WNBA forward for the Detroit Shock
• Reggie Brown, NFL wide-receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
• Quincy Carter, NFL quarterback
• Ian Conlon, former striker for the U.S. National Paralympic Soccer Team
• Lisa Coole, swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 1997
• Terrell Davis, former NFL running back for the Denver Broncos
• Pat Dye, athletic director and football head coach at Auburn University (1981-1992)
• Teresa Edwards, basketball player in the Olympics, the ABL, and the WNBA
• 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 the WNBA
• Vicki Goetze, player on the LPGA Tour
• Bill Goldberg, wrestler in WCW and WWE
• Charles Grant, NFL defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints
• David Greene, all time winningest college football quarterback, drafted in 2005 by the Seattle Seahawks
• Verron Haynes, NFL running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Jarvis Hayes, NBA 1st round pick (10th overall) Washington Wizards
• Garrison Hearst, former NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos)
• Terry Hoage, former NFL defensive back for six NFL teams over 13 seasons
• Buckshot Jones, stock-car driver, two-time winner in the NASCAR 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 the PGA Tour
• Tommy Lyons, former NFL offensive lineman for the Denver Broncos
• Randy McMichael, NFL tight-end for the Miami Dolphins
• Bob McWhorter, football and baseball, Georgia's first All-American
• Mikael Pernfors, tennis pro, twice NCAA champion, runner-up in 1986 French Open Grand Slam Championship.
• Billy Payne, president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
• David Pollack, 3-time football All-American, drafted in 2005 by the Cincinnati Bengals
• John Rauch, NFL "creator" of the "West Coast" style offense, former Coach of the Oakland Raiders
• Saudia Roundtree, Naismith College Player of the Year in 1996
• Theron Sapp, NFL runningback for the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers
• Richard Seymour, NFL defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
• D.J. Shockley, season record holder most touchdowns responsible for and most touchdown passes in a season. NFL 2rd string quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons
• Frank Sinkwich, All-American football player and Heisman Trophy winner in 1942
• Matt Stinchcomb, NFL offensive lineman Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2-time football All-America, 1st round 1999 draft
• Jon Stinchcomb, NFL offensive lineman New Orleans Saints, football All-American, 2nd round draft choice
• Fran Tarkenton, 9-time Pro-Bowler as quarterback of the NFL Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants
• Christi Thomas, WNBA forward for the Los Angeles Sparks
• Odell Thurman, NFL linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals
• Charley Trippi, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, two-time Pro Bowl halfback for the Chicago Cardinals
• Herschel Walker, retired NFL running back, Heisman Trophy winner and 3 time football All-American 1982 in 1982
• Hines Ward, NFL wide-receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Bubba Watson, player on the PGA Tour
• Jermaine Wiggins, NFL tight-end for the Minnesota Vikings
• Dominique Wilkins, NBA slam dunk champion for the Atlanta Hawks
• Damien Wilkins, NBA guard for the Seattle Supersonics

Business and industry

• Dan Amos, Chairman & CEO of AFLAC
• Stephen Bell, Strategic Adviser, Canvas Systems
• D.W. Brooks, founder and chairman emeritus of Gold Kist
• Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop
• Brantley Coile, creator of Cisco PIX, Cisco LocalDirector, ATA-over-Ethernet and founder of Coraid, Inc.
• A.D. “Pete” Correll, chairman and CEO of Georgia-Pacific Corp
• Tom Cousins, founder of Cousins Properties
• Beverly Dolan, Founder of EZ-G0 Golf Carts, past President of Textron
• Rex Fuqua, Fuqua Industries
• Donald Ivestor, Former CEO of Coca-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 of Church’s Chicken
• Billy Morris, Morris Communications
• Jim Nalley, Nalley Automotive
• Billy Payne, President of Augusta National

Economics and finance

• Jim Blanchard, Founder and President of Synovus
• Robert D. McTeer, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (1991–2005)
• Bernard Ramsey, former senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch
• Charles S. Sanford, Jr., Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust

Educators

• 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 of Texas A&M University

Government and the law

• 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 in 31st 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 from Texas
• 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 the HOPE Scholarship
• Sonny Perdue, Georgia Governor
• Ralph Reed, conservative activist and candidate for Lt. Governor of Georgia
• Fred B. Rooney, US Representative from Pennsylvania
• 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 Georgia

Media and journalism

(In alphabetical order.)

• Brooke Anderson, a news anchor for CNN
• 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 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Bill Hartman III, sports anchor for WSB-TV
• John Huey, editorial director of Time, Inc.
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN International bureau chief in Johannesburg, 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 of Public Broadcasting Service and current president of the Museum of Television and Radio in New 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 the Miami 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 the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Washington Post
• Tommy Tomlinson, columnist for the Charlotte Observer; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

Medicine

• Hervey M. Cleckley, psychiatrist and co-author of The Three Faces of Eve
• Hamilton E. Holmes, orthopedist, professor and associate dean of Emory University School of Medicine
• Crawford W. Long, inventor of anesthesia

Military

• John B. Gordon, General in Confederate Army, a US Senator, and Governor of Georgia

Ministry and Religion

• Benjamin M. Palmer -- Class of 1838, South Carolina native, first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856-1902)
• George Foster Pierce - Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, President of Georgia Female College and Emory College

Scientific research

• Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor at UGA and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Cornelia Bargmann, anatomy professor at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard 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 the Immortality Institute, author, and film producer

Distinguished 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

• Lamar Dodd, nationally recognized artist
• Hugh Kenner, literary scholar and prolific critic, elected to American 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-winning costume designer
• Judith Ortiz Cofer, internationally recognized writer, and Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing

Athletics

• 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 coach

Engineering

• S. Edward Law, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Stuart O. Nelson, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering elected to National Academy of Engineering

Mathematics

• 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.

Scientific research

• Norman Allinger chemist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, awarded the Franklin Medal
• Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Allan Armitage, horticulturist, recipient of the National Educator Award from the American Horticultural Society.
• John Avise, genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Brent Berlin, anthropologist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Jeffrey Bennetzen, molecular geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Murray S. Blum, entomologist, recipient of Lamar Dodd Award, authority on chemical ecology and pheromones
• Glenn Burton, agronomist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Stephen Hubbell, plant biology research, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Norman Giles, geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Lois Miller, entomology and genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Eugene Odum, zoologist and groundbreaking pioneer in study of ecology, author of first textbook on the subject
• Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, chemistry, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Lawrence Shimkets, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Susan R. Wessler, botanist and geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• William Whitman, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Juergen Wiegel, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Chief Executives of the University

• 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)