List of Sewanee: The University of the South people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.

Arts

Thomas Lakeman, current Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence

Radney Foster, country music artist

Fine Arts

• Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic photographer

Literature

• Franklin Burroughs, author
• H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
• Thomas Lakeman, author, playwright and screenwriter
• Andrew Nelson Lytle, author
• Catherine Richardson, author

Music

• Jay Faires, President of Music at Lionsgate
• Radney Foster, singer/songwriter

Television and Film

• Julian Adams, film producer, actor, and screenwriter
• Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
• Jean Yarbrough, film and television director

Performing Arts

• Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor
• Gina Nicolopulos, American actress

Athletics

• 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
• Charlie Dexter, Major League Baseball player
• Joe B. Hall, University of Kentucky head basketball coach
• Kyle Rote, Jr., American soccer player
• Phil Savage, Former Senior VP and General Manager, Cleveland Browns
• John Shoop, football coach

Education

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Samuel and Victoria Pickering

• Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
• John V. Fleming, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
• Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society.
• Dr. Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
• Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Douglas Porch, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet

Journalism

• Smith Hempstone, journalist and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
• Jack Hitt, author and contributing editor of New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and This American Life.
• Roger Hodge, editor of Harper's Magazine
• Robert Ivy, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record and Editorial Director and Vice-President of McGraw-Hill Construction Media.
• Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography

Law

• Phelan Beale, 1902, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
• Stuart Bowen, lawyer currently serving as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
• Honorable Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
• Alexander Campbell King, Solicitor General of the United States
• Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
• William Alexander Percy, lawyer and author

Military

• Archibald Butt, military advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft
• William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the US Army
• Frank Kelso, former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
• Admiral (ret) William O. Studeman

Politics

• Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia
• Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
• Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington
• Elwood Dunn, Professor of political science and former minister of state for presidential affairs for the country of Liberia
• Tucker Eskew, Republican Political Consultant
• Jason W. Forrester, Director of Policy Veterans for America
• Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
• Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Religion

The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.

• The Rt. Rev J. Neil Alexander, IX bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and current Chancellor of The University of the South
• The Most Rev. John Maury Allin, XXIII Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• The Most Rev. Edmond Browning, XXIV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• The Rt. Rev. Charles Judson Child, Jr., VII bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
• Carl P. Daw Jr., Executive Director of the Hymn Society
• The Very Rev. William Porcher DuBose, Dean, and priest
• The Rt. Rev. Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
• Mark Allan Frye, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. William Millsaps, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church
• The Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley, X bishop of the Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, former Chancellor of The University of the South
• The Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard, Episcopal bishop
• The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, first openly gay Episcopal bishop
• The Ven. Hudson Stuck, (Anglican) Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
• The Rt. Rev John Moore Walker, Jr., 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Technology

• Brian Reynolds, computer strategy game designer