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This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni (graduating and non-graduating) of
Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee .
Unless otherwise noted, attendees listed graduated with a
bachelor's degree . Names with an asterisk (*) graduated from
Peabody College prior to its merger with Vanderbilt.
Notable alumni
Academia
Presidents and chancellors
Bob Agee (Ph.D.) – 13th president of
Oklahoma Baptist University
Will W. Alexander (B.Th. 1912) – founding president of
Dillard University
Niels-Erik Andreasen (Ph.D. 1971) – 5th president of
Andrews University
Roslyn Clark Artis (Ed.D. 2010) – 14th president of
Benedict College
Robert G. Bottoms (Ph.D. 1972) – 18th president of
DePauw University
William Leroy Broun – 4th president of
Auburn University
Robert Bruininks (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1968) – 15th president of the
University of Minnesota
Doak S. Campbell * (M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1930) – 1st president of
Florida State University
Shirley Collado (B.A. 1994) – 9th president of
Ithaca College
James C. Conwell (Ph.D. 1989) – 15th president of the
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Dennis Hargrove Cooke * (Ph.D. 1930) – 4th president of
East Carolina University
Jesse Lee Cuninggim – 1st president of
Scarritt College
Merrimon Cuninggim (B.A. 1931) – 15th president of
Salem College
Herman Lee Donovan * (Ph.D. 1928) – 4th president of the
University of Kentucky
Sheldon Hackney (B.A. 1955) – 6th president of the
University of Pennsylvania ; chairman,
National Endowment for the Humanities
Thomas K. Hearn (Ph.D. 1965) – 12th president of
Wake Forest University
E. Bruce Heilman (B.S. 1951, M.A. 1952) – 5th chancellor of the
University of Richmond
Alfred Hume (Ph.D. 1887) – 10th chancellor of the
University of Mississippi
Z. T. Johnson * (Ph.D. 1929) – 8th president of
Asbury University
David C. Joyce (Ed.D. 1995) – 13th president of
Brevard College
Robert L. King (J.D. 1971) – 7th chancellor of the
State University of New York
Bradford Knapp (B.A. 1892) – 8th president of
Auburn University
John Lowden Knight (M.A.) – 10th president of
Nebraska Wesleyan University , 4th president of
Baldwin-Wallace College
Michael K. Le Roy (Ph.D. 1994) – 10th president of
Calvin College
J. Bernard Machen (B.A. 1966) – 16th president of
University of Utah , 11th president of
University of Florida
The Rev.
Edward Malloy (Ph.D. 1975) – 16th president of the
University of Notre Dame
Howard Justus McGinnis * (Ph.D. 1927) – 3rd president of
East Carolina University
Edward C. Merrill Jr. (Ph.D. 1954)* – 4th president of
Gallaudet University
Scott D. Miller (Ed.D. 1988) – 4th president of
Virginia Wesleyan University
Charles N. Millican * (M.A. 1946) – founding president of the
University of Central Florida
Fred Tom Mitchell * (M.A. 1927) – 10th president of
Mississippi State University
Niel Nielson (M.A., Ph.D.) – 5th president of
Covenant College
Maryly Van Leer Peck (B.E. 1951) – 2nd president of
Polk State College
J. Matthew Pinson (Ed.D.) – 5th president of
Welch College
Griffith Thompson Pugh Sr. (Ph.D. 1905) – former president of
Columbia College
Edwin Richardson (B.S. 1900)* – 9th president of
Louisiana Tech University
Kevin M. Ross (Ph.D. 2006) – 5th president of
Lynn University
Lee Royce (B.A, 1973, M.B.A, 1976, Ed.D., 1993) – 19th president of
Mississippi College
Rubel Shelly (M.A., Ph.D.) – 8th president of Rochester College (now
Rochester Christian University )
Heather A. Smith – 8th president of
College of Saint Mary
Henry N. Snyder (B.A. 1887) – 4th president of
Wofford College
John J. Tigert (B.A. 1904) –
Rhodes Scholar , 3rd president of
University of Florida , 7th
U.S. Commissioner of Education
William Troutt (Ph.D. 1978) – 19th president of
Rhodes College
Richard L. Wallace (Ph.D. 1965) – 20th president of the
University of Missouri
Toshimasa Yasukata (Ph.D. 1985) – president of
Hokkai Gakuen University
M. Norvel Young (M.A., Ph.D. 1937) – 3rd president of
Pepperdine University
James Fulton Zimmerman (B.A., M.A.) – 7th president of the
University of New Mexico
Professors and scholars
Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa (Ph.D. 1972) –
Saudi mathematician; scholar at
King Fahd University ,
King Saud University ,
Harvard University ; founding fellow,
Islamic Academy of Sciences
[1]
Erik K. Alexander – professor of medicine,
Harvard Medical School ; co-chairman, International Guidelines on Thyroid Disease & Pregnancy
Robert Arrington (B.A. 1960) – philosopher,
Woodrow Wilson Fellow ,
Oxford Fellow
John Arthur (Ph.D. 1973) – philosopher, professor at
Binghamton University ,
Harvard University , fellow at the
University of Oxford
Martha Bailey (Ph.D. 2005) – professor of economics at
UCLA , executive board of the
American Economic Association
[2]
Jeff Balser (M.D./Ph.D. 1990) – president and CEO of
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and dean of the
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
[3]
Faisal Basri (M.A. 1988) – Indonesian economist specializing in
political economics
Randolph Blake (Ph.D. 1972) – Centennial Professor of Psychology at
Vanderbilt , former faculty at
Northwestern University and
Seoul National University ,
National Academy of Sciences
[4]
Dan Blazer (B.A. 1965) – J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry emeritus at
Duke University School of Medicine
Cleanth Brooks (B.A. 1928) – literary critic and professor of English at
Yale University
[5]
L. Carl Brown (B.A. 1950) –
emeritus professor of history at
Princeton University ,
Guggenheim Fellow
[6]
Markus Brunnermeier (M.A. 1994) – economist,
Edwards S. Sanford professorship at
Princeton University ,
Guggenheim Fellow
Anthea Butler (M.A., Ph.D. 2001) – Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought at the
University of Pennsylvania
[7]
Sheryll Cashin (B.E. 1984) – law scholar, political adviser, professor at
Georgetown University Law Center
Kathleen R. Cho (M.D. 1984) – professor of pathology and internal medicine at
Michigan Medicine ,
National Academy of Medicine
[8]
Ellen Cohn (M.S. 1975) – Associate
Dean and professor at
University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
[9]
[10]
Ed Connor (M.S. 1982) – key figure in the
neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level
visual cortex ,
[11] professor of neuroscience at
Johns Hopkins University
[12]
Herman Daly (Ph.D.) –
ecological and
Georgist economist,
[13] developed the
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare ,
Right Livelihood Award winner
[14]
John Emmeus Davis (B.A. 1971) – scholar who has advanced the understanding of
community land trusts ,
[15] taught at
Tufts University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[16]
Tania Douglas (M.S. 1995) – professor of
biomedical engineering , Research Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Innovation at the
University of Cape Town ,
[17]
Quartz Africa Innovators (2018)
[18]
Larry Druffel (Ph.D. 1975) – director emeritus
[19] and visiting scientist at the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at
Carnegie Mellon University , Fellow of the
IEEE
William Yandell Elliott (B.A. 1917, M.A. 1920) –
Rhodes Scholar , professor of history at
University of California, Berkeley and
Harvard University
[20]
Sarah K. England (Postdoc) – Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at
Washington University School of Medicine ,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow
[21]
George T. Flom (M.A. 1894) – professor of
linguistics and author of numerous reference books,
[22] knighted by 1 Class of the
Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1939)
Kenneth Galloway (B.A. 1962) – engineer, distinguished professor of engineering, dean of the school of engineering, emeritus,
Vanderbilt University
[23]
Isabel Gauthier (Ph.D. 1998) – David K. Wilson Chair of Psychology, cognitive neuroscientist
John Gaventa ,
OBE (B.A. 1971) –
sociologist ,
Rhodes Scholar ,
MacArthur Fellow (1981), Officer of the
Order of the British Empire
Cullen B. Gosnell (M.A. 1920), founder and former chair of the department of political science at
Emory University
Antonio Gotto (B.A. 1957, M.D. 1965) – dean of
Cornell University
Weill Medical College ,
Rhodes Scholar
Edward C. Green – medical anthropologist,
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS ,
[24] Senior Research Scientist at the
Harvard School of Public Health
Roger Groot (B.A. 1963) – Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at
Washington and Lee University School of Law , expert in criminal law and the death penalty
F. Peter Guengerich (Ph.D. 1973) – Tadashi Inagami Chair in Biochemistry at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Herbert Gursky (M.S. 1953) – superintendent,
NRL 's Space Science Div., chief scientist, Hulburt Center for Space Research, professor of p
hysics and
astronomy at
Harvard ,
Princeton , and
Columbia University
J. Alex Haller (B.A. 1947) – first Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , co-creator and namesake of the
Haller index
Helen Hardacre (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1972) – Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society,
Harvard University ;
Guggenheim Fellow ;
Order of the Rising Sun, Japan (2018)
[25]
Louis R. Harlan (M.S. 1948) – academic historian, winner of the 1984
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
[26]
[27]
David Edwin Harrell (Ph.D. 1962) – historian at
Auburn University , emeritus professor and Breeden Eminent Scholar of Southern History
[28]
John Heil (Ph.D.) – professor of philosophy at the Washington University in St. Louis,
[29]
Guggenheim Fellow (2018)
[30]
Alfred O. Hero Jr. (M.A. 1950) – political scientist; editor,
International Organization ; visiting professor,
University of Toronto ; visiting scholar,
Harvard University
[31]
Dorothy M. Horstmann (med. resident) –
epidemiologist and
virologist whose research helped set the stage for the
polio vaccine , first female professor of the
Yale School of Medicine
Kung Hsiang-fu (Ph.D. 1969) – Chinese
geneticist and
oncologist , former director of the
University of Hong Kong 's Institute of Molecular Biology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
[32]
G. Scott Hubbard (B.S. 1970) – former director of NASA's
Ames Research Center , chairman
SpaceX Safety Advisory Panel,
[33] adjunct professor
Stanford University
Paul Hudak (B.S. 1973) – professor and chair of
computer science department,
Yale University , best known for involvement in the design of the
programming language
Haskell
Richard Hurd (Ph.D.) – professor of industrial and labor relations; ILR associate dean for external relations,
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Mainul Islam (Ph.D. 1981) – Bangladeshi economist and academician, awarded
Ekushey Padak by the
Government of Bangladesh in 2018
[34]
George Pullen Jackson (B.A. 1902) – professor of German at
Vanderbilt University
[35]
Alexander D. Johnson (B.A. 1974) – professor and vice chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the
University of California, San Francisco
[36]
Joseph A. Kéchichian – Lebanese author and political scientist,
Hoover Fellow at
Stanford University , former lecturer at the
University of California in Los Angeles
Edwin A. Keeble (B.E. 1924) – architect trained in the
Beaux-Arts tradition, known for tall slender church steeples, nicknamed "Keeble's needles," taught at the
University of Pennsylvania
David Kirk (B.A. 1996) – sociologist; associate professor of sociology,
University of Oxford ; departmental director of research
[37]
J. Davy Kirkpatrick (B.S. 1986) –
astronomer at the
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the
California Institute of Technology whose research was named one of the Top 100 Stories of 2011 by
Discover Magazine
[38]
Thomas Kolditz (B.A. 1978) – former director, Leader Development Program at the
Yale School of Management ;
[39] founding director, Doerr Institute at
Rice University
[40]
Leah Krubitzer (Ph.D. 1989) – professor of psychology at
University of California, Davis ,
[41] and head of the Laboratory of
Evolutionary Neurobiology ,
[42]
MacArthur Fellow (1998)
Frances E. Lee (Ph.D. 1997) – professor of politics and public affairs,
Princeton University ; co-editor of
Legislative Studies Quarterly
[43]
Gordon Logan (psychologist) – Centennial Professor of Psychology
Peter Mancina (Ph.D. 2016) – research associate at the Centre for Criminology, Law Faculty of the
University of Oxford
[44]
Tom Maniatis (Ph.D. 1971) – professor of molecular and cellular
biology , held faculty positions at
Harvard University , the
California Institute of Technology , and
Columbia University ,
Lasker Award winner (2001)
Henry Manne (B.A. 1950) – writer and academic, considered a founder of the
law and economics discipline
[45]
[46]
Jacques Marcovitch (M.M. 1972) – Brazilian emeritus professor at the Business Administration, Economy and Accountancy Faculty,
University of São Paulo
Donald B. McCormick (B.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1958) – biochemist; professor,
Cornell University ; chair of biochemistry,
Emory University ;
Guggenheim Fellow
Glenn McGee (M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1994) – bioethicist; founding editor of the
American Journal of Bioethics ; associate director of
UPenn Bioethics, 1995–2005
Timothy J. McGrew (M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1992) – professor of philosophy, and chair of the department of philosophy at
Western Michigan University
Neil R. McMillen (Ph.D. 1969) – professor emeritus at the
University of Southern Mississippi ,
Bancroft Prize winner (1990),
Pulitzer Prize finalist (1990)
[47]
Timothy P. McNamara (Ph.D. 1984) – Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Social and Natural Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychology
H. Houston Merritt (B.S. 1922) – former
Harvard University faculty, former dean of the
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Columbia University
[48]
Edwin Mims (B.A. 1892, M.A. 1893) – chair of the
Vanderbilt University English Department (1912–1942), taught many members of the
Fugitives and the
Southern Agrarians
Merrill Moore (B.A. 1924) –
Ericksonian psychologist, poet, taught
neurology at
Harvard Medical School , research fellow of the Harvard Psychological Clinic
[49]
David Morton (B.A. 1909) – poet,
Golden Rose Award winner, faculty at
Amherst College
Pieter Mosterman (Ph.D. 1997) – chief research scientist, director of the MathWorks Advanced Research & Technology Office (MARTO), adjunct professor at
McGill University
[50]
Michael Ndurumo (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – Kenyan Professor of Psychology at the
University of Nairobi ,
Kenya , activist for
special education in Africa
Mark Noll (Ph.D. 1975) – historian, research professor of history at
Regent College ,
[51] previously Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the
University of Notre Dame
Michael O'Brien – British historian, professor of American Intellectual History at the
University of Cambridge
Efosa Ojomo (B.E. 2005) – Global Prosperity Lead,
Clayton Christensen Institute, senior research fellow,
Harvard Business School
[52]
Thomas J. Palmeri (Ph.D. 1995) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Kit Parker (Ph.D. 1998) – Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at
Harvard University ,
[53] research includes tissue engineering,
traumatic brain injury , micro- and nanotechnologies
Monica E. Peek (B.S. 1991) – Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice at the
Pritzker School of Medicine ,
University of Chicago
Don K. Price (B.A. 1931) – founding dean of
Harvard University 's
John F. Kennedy School of Government (1958–1976),
Rhodes Scholar
Bill Purcell (J.D. 1979) – former director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at
Harvard University 's
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Stuart C. Ray (M.D. 1990) – vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics,
[54] associate director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
J. Fred Rippy (M.A. 1915) – historian of Latin American and American diplomacy, professor of history at the
University of Chicago and
Duke University ,
[55]
Guggenheim Fellow
Marylyn D. Ritchie (M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2004) – professor of genetics; director, Center for Translational Bioinformatics at the
University of Pennsylvania
[56]
Tom Rockmore (Ph.D. 1974) – distinguished humanities chair, professor at
Peking University , China
Leland Sage (B.A. 1922) – American historian, professor emeritus of history at the
University of Northern Iowa
Elyn Saks (B.A. 1977) – associate dean and professor of law at the
University of Southern California ; scholar of mental health law;
MacArthur Fellow (2009)
Roberto Castillo Sandoval (M.A. 1985) – Chilean author and professor of
comparative literature and
Latin American studies at
Haverford College
Edward Schumacher-Matos (B.A. 1968) – director, Edward R. Murrow Center,
Tufts University , former faculty,
Columbia University School of Journalism ,
[57] former director, migration studies,
Harvard University
[58]
James K. Sebenius (B.A. 1975) – economist, Gordon Donaldson Professor of
Business administration at
Harvard Business School
[59]
[60]
Artyom Shneyerov (M.A. 1997) –
microeconomist at
Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Debora Shuger (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1978, M.A.T. 1978) – distinguished professor of English at
UCLA , contributor to the
Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature ,
[61]
Guggenheim Fellow
[62]
Lee Sigelman (Ph.D. 1973) – political scientist, former editor-in-chief of the
American Political Science Review
Evgenia Smirni (Ph.D. 1995) – Sidney P. Chockley Professor of Computer Science at the
College of William & Mary ,
IEEE Fellow
D.M. Smith (B.A. 1908, M.A. 1910) – mathematician and professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology , charter member of the
American Mathematical Society
James Perrin Smith (M.A. 1887) – early scholar of Mesozoic rock formations, professor of geology and paleontology at
Stanford University ,
Mary Clark Thompson Medal winner,
National Academy of Sciences
[63]
Erica Spatz (B.S. 1997) – associate professor, clinical investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation,
Yale University School of Medicine
Hans Herrman Strupp (1921–2006) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Mildred T. Stahlman (B.A. 1943, M.D. 1946) – professor of pediatrics and pathology at
Vanderbilt , started the first
newborn intensive care unit in the world,
[64]
John Howland Award winner
David Stuart (Ph.D. 1995) – archaeologist/epigrapher,
MacArthur Fellow at age 18, former curator of Maya Hieroglyphs and senior lecturer at
Harvard University , Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at
UT Austin
John J. Stuhr (M.A., Ph.D. 1976) – distinguished professor of philosophy and American studies at
Emory University , coined "genealogical pragmatism"
[65]
Mriganka Sur (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1978) – Newton Professor of
Neuroscience , Simons Center for the Social Brain Director, investigator at the
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at
MIT
[66]
[67]
[68]
[69]
James R. Thompson (B.S. 1960) – former chair of the department of statistics and Noah Harding Emeritus Professor of Statistics at
Rice University
[70]
Antonio D. Tillis (B.S. 1987) – dean,
College of Charleston ; chair, Latin American studies,
Purdue University ; chair, African and African-American studies,
Dartmouth College
[71]
Richard D. Todd (B.S.) – former Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of
Psychiatry and director, child and adolescent psychiatry at
Washington University
[72]
Frank Tong (Ph.D.) – Centennial Professor of Psychology.
Victor J. Torres (Ph.D. 2004) – C.V. Starr Professor of Microbiology,
New York University School of Medicine ; director, Anti-Microbial Resistant Pathogens Program;
[73]
MacArthur Fellow (2021)
[74]
Thomas J. Trebat (Ph.D.) – economist and political scientist who teaches at the
School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University ,
[75] member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
[76]
James C. Tsai (M.B.A. 1998) – former Robert R. Young Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and chair, Department of Ophthalmology,
Yale University School of Medicine
[77]
David Tzuriel (Ph.D. 1977) – Israeli
psychologist , professor and chairman of the school of education at
Bar Ilan University
Mark T. Wallace (Ph.D. 1990) Louise B. McGavock Chair of Neuroscience, professor of psychology,
Vanderbilt University
Richard M. Weaver (M.A. 1934) –
Platonist philosopher, author, scholar, and authority on
modern rhetoric , professor of English at the
University of Chicago
Emil Carl Wilm (M.A. 1903) – Prussian-American philosopher, professor at
Washburn College ,
Harvard University ,
Boston University , and
Stanford University
John Long Wilson (B.A. 1935) – medical professor and administrator at
American University of Beirut ,
Lebanon , and
Stanford University
Sheldon M. Wolff (M.D. 1957) – former chair of the department of medicine at
Tufts University School of Medicine
Minky Worden (B.A. 1989) – human rights advocate and author, director of Global Initiatives at
Human Rights Watch ,
[78] professor at
Columbia University 's
School of International and Social Affairs
[79]
Thomas Daniel Young (Ph.D. 1950) – first
Gertrude C. Vanderbilt Professor of
English at
Vanderbilt
Art, literature, and humanities
Alev Alatlı (M.A. 1965) – Turkish economist, philosopher, columnist and bestselling novelist
Thomas B. Allen –
expressionist painter and illustrator, pioneer of
visual journalism
[80]
Alfred Bartles – composer of "Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble"
Richmond C. Beatty (M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1930) – biographer and critic,
Guggenheim Fellow
Lynne Berry (Ph.D. 1997) –
writer and
poet
Diann Blakely (M.A. 1980) – poet
Campbell Bonner (B.A. 1896, M.A. 1897) –
classicist
Jack Boone (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – writer,
O. Henry Award Winner (1932)
[81]
William Brittelle (B.M. 1999) – electro-acoustic composer
Cleanth Brooks (B.A. 1928) – founder of
New Criticism ,
The Well Wrought Urn (1947)
Thomas G. Burton (M.A. 1958, Ph.D. 1966) – author
Marshall Chapman (B.A. 1971) – singer-songwriter, author
Brainard Cheney – novelist, playwright and essayist, member of the
Southern Agrarians
Mel Chin (B.A. 1975) –
conceptual visual artist,
MacArthur Fellow (2019)
[82]
Charles Edward Choate – architect
Tiana Clark (M.F.A. 2017) – poet
Clyde Connell –
abstract expressionist
sculptor
[83]
Alfred Leland Crabb (B.A. Peabody) – author of historical fiction
Bruce Crabtree – architect
Francis Craig – songwriter, including Vanderbilt fight song
"Dynamite" (1922)
Compton Newby Crook * (B.A. 1929) –
science fiction writer ,
Hugo Award winner, namesake of the
Compton Crook Award
David Dark (Ph.D. 2011) – writer
Donald Davidson (B.A. 1917, M.A. 1922) – novelist, poet, and opera librettist
Ky Dickens (B.A. 2000) – filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2009 documentary
Fish out of Water
[84]
James Dickey (B.A. 1949) – author and poet, winner of the
National Book Award for Poetry, author of the novel
Deliverance
Julia Lester Dillon * (B.A. 1890) –
landscape architect , inscribed upon the
Georgia Women of Achievement in 2003
Marjorie K. Eastman (M.B.A.) – author of The Frontline Generation , 2017 Independent Publishers National Book Award winner
[85]
Ruth Denson Edwards * (B.A. 1913) –
hymnwriter and figure in the
Sacred Harp movement
[86]
William Eggleston – photographer
Francis Perry Elliott – novelist known for screen adaptions
The Square Deceiver (1917) and
Pals First (1926)
Karen Essex (M.F.A 1999) – historical novelist known for
Leonardo's Swans and
Stealing Athena
Maria Beale Fletcher – Radio City Music Hall Rockette; Miss America of 1962
Jesse Hill Ford (B.A. 1951) – writer of
Southern Literature
Frances Fowler – painter
Ellen Gilchrist –
National Book Award -winning author
Red Grooms – multimedia artist most associated with
pop art
Kelsie B. Harder (B.A. 1950, M.A. 1951) –
onomastician
Costen Jordan Harrell (M.A. 1910) – writer and bishop of The
Methodist Church
William Harrison (M.A. 1959) – novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter,
Burton and Speke ,
Rollerball ,
Guggenheim Fellow (1973)
Eric L. Harry (BA 1980, MBA 1983, JD 1984) – author best known for his novels
Arc Light and
Invasion
Ross Hassig (M.A. 1974) – anthropologist, author, Mesoamerica scholar
Sylvia Hyman * (M.A. 1963) – sculptor and
ceramic artist
William Inge (Peabody, 1935) –
Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright, best known for
Picnic
Michelle Izmaylov (M.D.) – bestselling writer of
fantasy-fiction books
George Pullen Jackson (B.A. 1902) –
musicologist , pioneer in the field of Southern American hymnody
Randall Jarrell (M.A. 1938) –
United States Poet Laureate
Madison Jones (B.A. 1949) – novelist, member of the
Southern Agrarians
Donika Kelly (M.A. 2009) – poet, winner of the 2015
Cave Canem prize
Mark Kendall (B.A. 2005, M.A. 2008) – artist and filmmaker,
La Camioneta (2012),
Guggenheim Fellow
Matthew Washington Kennedy * (Ph.D.) – classical
pianist and
composer
Mark Thomas Ketterson (B.A. 1976) – performing arts journalist and critic,
Opera News
Perry Lentz (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – author,
Woodrow Wilson Fellow and
Rockefeller Foundation grant holder
Alan LeQuire (B.A. 1978) – sculptor
Andrew Nelson Lytle (B.A. 1925) – novelist and professor
Evan Mack (B.M. 2003) – composer,
librettist and pianist
Ellis K. Meacham (LL.B 1937) – authored a Napoleonic era nautical adventure trilogy published by
Little, Brown (US) and
Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Greg Miller (B.A. 1979) – poet
Jim Wayne Miller (Ph.D. 1965) –
Appalachian poet
Merrill Moore (B.A. 1924) – poet
W. R. Moses (Ph.D.) – poet
Philip Nel (Ph.D. 1997) – scholar of children's literature
Adrienne Outlaw – sculptor
Edd Winfield Parks (Ph.D. 1929) – writer and essayist
H. Clinton Parrent Jr. – architect
James Patterson (M.A. 1970) – bestselling contemporary writer of thrillers
Jon Parrish Peede (B.A.) – former chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities
[87]
John Crowe Ransom (B.A. 1909) – poet and essayist, founder of
New Criticism ,
Rhodes Scholar
Fahmi Reza – Malaysian political
street artist and
documentarian
[88]
Graham Robb
FRSL (Ph.D. 1986) – British author,
The Discovery of France , Chevalier of the
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Kaira Rouda (B.A. 1985) – novelist
Daniel Bernard Roumain (B.M 1993) – composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader
Robert Ryman * – painter associated with
monochrome painting ,
minimalism , and
conceptual art
[89]
David P. Sartor – composer and conductor
Steven D. Schroeder (B.A.) – poet
Tom Schulman (B.A. 1972) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film
Dead Poets Society
Jeanne Ellison Shaffer (Ph.D. 1970) – composer
Beasley Smith – composer and
big band musician
Samuel L. Smith * (M.A. 1918) – practical architect
Elizabeth Spencer (M.A. 1943) – writer of the novella
The Light in the Piazza
Laura Spong (B.A. 1948) –
Abstract expressionist painter
James Still (M.A. 1930) – poet, novelist and folklorist, best known for the novel
River of Earth (1940)
Georgia Stitt (B.M 1994) – composer and lyricist, arranger, conductor, and musical director
H.R. Stoneback (Ph.D. 1970) – academic, poet, and
folk singer ,
Hemingway ,
Durrell , and
Faulkner scholar
[90]
Jesse Stuart – writer,
Guggenheim Fellow
Amy H. Sturgis (Ph.D.) – author, speaker and scholar of science fiction/
fantasy studies and
Native American studies
Walter Sullivan (B.A. 1947) –
southern novelist and
literary critic , founding charter member of the
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Allen Tate (B.A. 1922) –
United States Poet Laureate
Eleanor Ross Taylor – poet, 2010
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Peter Taylor – novelist, short story writer, and playwright, 1987
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
[91]
Nafissa Thompson-Spires (M.A. 2005, Ph.D. 2009) – writer, 2019
Whiting Award
[92]
Pat Toomay – NFL
defensive end , author of Any Given Sunday , basis for Oliver Stone's
film of the same name (1999)
William Trowbridge (Ph.D. 1975) – poet,
Academy of American Poets Prize
[93]
Robert Turner (M.A. 1950) – Canadian composer, appointed
Order of Canada in 2002
[94]
Robert Penn Warren (B.A. 1925) –
Pulitzer Prize winner,
United States Poet Laureate , author of
All the King's Men (1946)
Geoffrey R. Waters (B.A.) – poet and translator,
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Sarah Webb –
Contemporary realist painter
James Whitehead (B.A., M.A.) – poet, 1972
Guggenheim Fellow
Ralph Wickiser * (M.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1938) – painter
Greg Williamson – poet, known for the invention of the "Double Exposure" form in which one poem can be read three different ways
Martin Wilson (B.A. 1995) – writer best known for his award-winning
debut novel
What They Always Tell Us
[95]
Terri Witek (B.S. 1983, M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1988) – poet, Slope Editions Prize, Center for Book Arts Prize Winner
[96]
Kat Zhang (B.A. 2013) – science-fiction novelist,
What's Left of Me (2012)
Athletics
Baseball
Pedro Alvarez – infielder,
Pittsburgh Pirates (2010–15),
Baltimore Orioles (2016–18)
Mike Baxter – outfielder,
San Diego Padres (2010),
New York Mets (2011–13),
Los Angeles Dodgers (2014),
Chicago Cubs (2015)
Tyler Beede – pitcher,
San Francisco Giants (2018–present)
Walker Buehler – pitcher,
Los Angeles Dodgers (2017–present);
All-Star (2019)
Vin Campbell – outfielder,
Chicago Cubs (1908),
Pittsburgh Pirates (1910–11),
Boston Braves (1912),
Indianapolis Hoosiers (1914), and
Newark Peppers (1915)
Curt Casali – catcher,
Tampa Bay Rays (2014–17),
Cincinnati Reds (2018),
San Francisco Giants (present)
Wilson Collins – outfielder,
Boston Braves (1913–1914)
Doc Cook – outfielder,
New York Yankees (1913–1916)
Joey Cora – second baseman,
Cleveland Indians (1998);
Seattle Mariners (1995–98/ All-Star 1997);
Chicago White Sox (1991–94);
San Diego Padres (1987, 1989–90)
Caleb Cotham – pitcher,
New York Yankees (2015),
Cincinnati Reds (2016)
Slim Embry – starting pitcher,
Chicago White Sox (1923)
Ryan Flaherty – infielder,
Baltimore Orioles (2012–17),
Atlanta Braves (2018),
Cleveland Indians (2019); coach,
San Diego Padres (2020–present)
Carson Fulmer – pitcher,
Chicago White Sox (2016–present)
Sonny Gray – pitcher,
Oakland Athletics (2013–17),
New York Yankees (2017–18),
Cincinnati Reds (2019–present);
All-Star (2015, 2019)
Harvey Hendrick –
New York Yankees (1923–24),
Cleveland Indians (1925),
Brooklyn Robins (1927–31),
Cincinnati Reds (1931–32),
St. Louis Cardinals (1932),
Chicago Cubs (1933),
Philadelphia Phillies (1934)
Matt Kata – infielder,
Arizona Diamondbacks (2003–05),
Philadelphia Phillies (2005),
Texas Rangers ,
Pittsburgh Pirates (2007),
Houston Astros (2009)
Tony Kemp – second baseman, outfielder,
Houston Astros (2016–19),
Chicago Cubs (2019),
Oakland Athletics (2020–present)
Jack Leiter (B.A. 2023) – pitcher
[97]
Jensen Lewis – broadcaster; pitcher,
Cleveland Indians (2005–11),
Arizona Diamondbacks (2012),
Chicago Cubs (2013);
Roberto Clemente Award nominee (2010)
Scotti Madison – third baseman,
Detroit Tigers (1985–86),
Kansas City Royals (1987–88),
Cincinnati Reds (1989)
Austin Martin – shortstop,
Toronto Blue Jays (2020–present)
Mike Minor – starting pitcher,
Atlanta Braves (2010–14),
Kansas City Royals (2017),
Texas Rangers (2018–20),
Oakland Athletics (2020–present);
All-Star (2019)
Scrappy Moore – third baseman,
St. Louis Browns (1917)
Penn Murfee – pitcher,
United States national baseball team ,
2019 WBSC Premier12
Josh Paul – catcher,
Arizona Diamondbacks (2003–05),
Philadelphia Phillies (2005),
Texas Rangers (2007),
Pittsburgh Pirates (2007),
Houston Astros (2009)
David Price – starting pitcher,
Los Angeles Dodgers ;
All-Star (2010–12, 2014, 2015),
Cy Young Award (2012),
World Series champion (2018)
Andy Reese – infielder/outfielder,
New York Giants (1927–30)
Bryan Reynolds – outfielder,
Pittsburgh Pirates (2019–present)
Antoan Richardson – outfielder,
Atlanta Braves (2011),
New York Yankees (2014); first base coach,
San Francisco Giants (2020–present)
Scott Sanderson –
Montreal Expos ,
Chicago Cubs ,
Oakland Athletics ,
New York Yankees ,
California Angels ,
San Francisco Giants ,
Chicago White Sox ,
California Angels (1978–96);
All-Star (1991)
Sam Selman – pitcher,
San Francisco Giants (2019–present)
Rip Sewell – starting pitcher,
Detroit Tigers (1932),
Pittsburgh Pirates (1938–1949); 4×
All-Star (1943–1946)
Justus Sheffield – pitcher,
New York Yankees (2018),
Seattle Mariners (2019–present)
Jeremy Sowers – pitcher,
Cleveland Indians (2006–09); executive,
Tampa Bay Rays (2020–present)
Dansby Swanson – shortstop,
Atlanta Braves (2016–present);
Haarlem Baseball Week Gold (2014)
Drew VerHagen – pitcher,
Detroit Tigers (2014–19),
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2020–present)
Casey Weathers – pitcher,
Colorado Rockies (2007–10),
Chicago Cubs (2011–12); Bronze Medal,
2008 Summer Olympics
Mike Willis – pitcher,
Toronto Blue Jays (1977–81)
Rhett Wiseman – outfielder,
Washington Nationals (Minor League);
Team Israel ,
World Baseball Classic (2017)
Kyle Wright – pitcher,
Atlanta Braves (2018–present)
Mike Yastrzemski – outfielder,
San Francisco Giants (2019–present);
Willie Mac Award (2020)
Josh Zeid – pitcher,
Houston Astros (2013–14);
Team Israel ,
World Baseball Classic (2017)
Basketball
Chantelle Anderson – women's basketball (1999–2003);
Sacramento Monarchs (2003–04),
San Antonio Silver Stars (2005–07)
Wade Baldwin IV – men's basketball (2014–16);
Memphis Grizzlies (2016–17),
Portland Trail Blazers (2017–19), now with
Maccabi Tel Aviv of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Rhonda Blades – women's basketball (1991–95);
New York Liberty (1997),
Detroit Shock (1998)
Derrick Byars – men's basketball (2005–07);
SEC Player of the Year (2007);
Chicago Bulls (2010), San Antonio Spurs (2012)
Charles Davis – men's basketball (1976–81);
Washington Bullets (1981–84),
Milwaukee Bucks (1984–87),
San Antonio Spurs (1987),
Chicago Bulls (1988–90)
Festus Ezeli – men's basketball (2008–12);
Golden State Warriors (2012–16),
Portland Trail Blazers (2016–17),
NBA Champion (2015)
Mariella Fasoula – women's basketball (2018–20);
Greece national team
Butch Feher – men's basketball (1972–76);
Phoenix Suns (1976–77)
Johnny "Red" Floyd – football and basketball (1915–16, 1919–20); namesake of
Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium
Jeff Fosnes – men's basketball (1972–1976); 1st
Academic All-American ; fourth-round draft pick,
Golden State Warriors (1976)
Shan Foster – men's basketball (2005–08); second team
Associated Press
All-American ; 2008
SEC Player of the Year
Rod Freeman – men's basketball (1970–73);
Philadelphia 76ers (1973–74)
Matt Freije – men's basketball (2000–04);
New Orleans Hornets (2004–05),
Atlanta Hawks (2006)
Ronald Green (1944–2012) –
American-Israeli men's basketball player
John Jenkins – men's basketball (2009–12); All-SEC (2011, 2012);
Atlanta Hawks (2012–15),
Dallas Mavericks (2015–16),
Phoenix Suns (2016–17),
New York Knicks (2019)
Damian Jones – men's basketball (2013–16);
Golden State Warriors (2016–19),
Atlanta Hawks (2019–present);
NBA Champion (2017, 2018)
Hutch Jones – men's basketball (1979–82);
San Diego Clippers (1982–83)
Zuzana Klimešová – women's basketball (2001); Czech former
basketball player, Olympian in the
2004 Summer Olympics
Frank Kornet – men's basketball (1985–89);
Milwaukee Bucks (1989–91)
Luke Kornet – men's basketball (2013–17);
New York Knicks (2017–19),
Chicago Bulls (2019–present)
Dan Langhi – men's basketball (1996–2000);
Houston Rockets (2000–02),
Phoenix Suns (2002–03),
Golden State Warriors (2003),
Milwaukee Bucks (2003)
Clyde Lee – men's basketball (1963–66);
SEC Player of the Year (1966),
All-American (1966);
San Francisco/Golden State Warriors (1966–74),
Atlanta Hawks (1975),
Philadelphia 76ers (1975–76)
Matt Maloney – men's basketball (1990–91);
Houston Rockets (1996–99),
Chicago Bulls (2000),
Atlanta Hawks (2000–03)
Billy McCaffrey – men's basketball (1991–93); two-time
All-American ;
SEC Player of the Year (1993)
Aaron Nesmith – men's basketball (2018–20);
Boston Celtics (2020–present)
Will Perdue – men's basketball (1983–88);
Chicago Bulls (1988–95),
San Antonio Spurs (1995–99),
Portland Trail Blazers (2000–01), 4×
NBA Champion (1991–1993, 1999)
Sheri Sam – women's basketball (1992–96);
WNBA
Charlotte Sting (2005–06),
Seattle Storm (2004),
Minnesota Lynx (2003),
Miami Sol (2000–02),
Orlando Miracle (1999)
Simisola Shittu (born 1999) – men's basketball; British-born Canadian basketball player for
Ironi Ness Ziona of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Jeffery Taylor – men's basketball (2008–12);
Charlotte Hornets (2012–15),
Real Madrid (2015–present),
EuroLeague Champion (2018)
Carla Thomas – women's basketball (2003–07);
Chicago Sky (2007)
Jeff Turner – men's basketball (1980–84);
New Jersey Nets (1984–87); gold medalist at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Jan van Breda Kolff – men's basketball (1971–74);
SEC Player of the Year (1974);
Denver Nuggets (1974–75),
New York / New Jersey Nets (1976–83)
Perry Wallace – men's basketball (1967–70);
first African-American basketball player in the
SEC ;
U.S. Department of Justice attorney; professor of law,
American University (1993–2017)
Payton Willis (born 1998) – men's basketball (2016–18); plays in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Bob Asher –
offensive tackle (1967–69);
Dallas Cowboys (1970–71),
Chicago Bears (1972–75),
Super Bowl VI Champion
Earl Bennett –
wide receiver (2005–08); 3× All-
SEC (2005–06),
Cleveland Browns (2008–14),
Chicago Bears (2014)
Lynn Bomar –
end (1921–24);
New York Giants (1925–26);
College Football Hall of Fame (1956)
Mack Brown –
running back (1969–70); head coach,
University of Texas (1998–2013),
University of North Carolina (1988–97, 2019–)
Watson Brown –
quarterback (1969–72); head coach,
Austin Peay (1979–80),
Cincinnati (1983),
Rice (1984–85), Vanderbilt (1986–90),
UAB (1995–2006),
Tennessee Tech (2007–)
Corey Chavous –
safety (1994–98);
Arizona Cardinals (1998–2001),
Minnesota Vikings (2002–05),
St. Louis Rams (2006–08)
Josh Cody –
tackle (1914–1916, 1919); 3×
All-American ,
College Football Hall of Fame (1970)
David Culley –
quarterback (1974–1977); head coach,
Houston Texans (2021– )
Zach Cunningham –
linebacker (2014–16);
First-team All-American (2016);
Houston Texans (2017–)
Bucky Curtis –
defensive back (1947–1950);
Cleveland Browns (1951),
Toronto Argonauts (1955–56);
All-American (1950)
Jay Cutler –
quarterback (2002–05);
Denver Broncos (2006–09),
Chicago Bears (2009–16),
Miami Dolphins (2017);
"100 Greatest Bears of All-Time"
Art Demmas –
linebacker (1952–56), captain (1956);
NFL Official (1970–96)
Jamie Duncan –
linebacker (1995–97),
All-American (1997);
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1998–2001),
St. Louis Rams (2002–03),
Atlanta Falcons (2004)
Ewing Y. Freeland –
tackle (1909–12); head coach,
SMU (1922–23),
Texas Tech (1925–28),
Austin College (1936–38)
Jonathan Goff –
linebacker (2005–07);
New York Giants (2008–11);
Super Bowl XLVI Champion
Clarence "Pete" Gracey –
center (1930–32);
All-American (1932)
Corey Harris –
safety (1988–91);
Green Bay Packers (1992–94),
Seattle Seahawks (1995–96),
Miami Dolphins (1997),
Baltimore Ravens (1998–2001),
Detroit Lions (2002–03)
Casey Hayward –
cornerback (2008–11);
Green Bay Packers (2012–15),
Los Angeles Chargers (2016–); 2×
Pro Bowl (2016, 2017);
NFL interceptions leader (2016)
Hunter Hillenmeyer –
linebacker (1999–2002);
Chicago Bears (2003–10);
NFC Champion (2006)
Carl Hinkle –
center (1935–37),
Southeastern Conference MVP (1937),
College Football Hall of Fame (1959)
Elliott Jones –
fullback (1890–92); captain (1890–92)
W. J. "Cap" Keller –
quarterback (1893–94); captain (1893–1894)
Everett "Tuck" Kelly –
guard (1922–24);
All-Southern (1923), captain (1924)
Oliver "Doc" Kuhn –
quarterback (1920–1923); captain (1923);
Porter Cup (1923)
Frank Kyle –
quarterback (1902–05); head coach,
Ole Miss (1908)
Clark Lea –
fullback (2002–04);
defensive coordinator for
Notre Dame (2018–20), head coach for
Vanderbilt (2021–)
[98]
David Lee –
quarterback (1971–75); captain (1974); head coach,
University of Texas at El Paso (1989–93),
NFL
quarterback coach (2003–)
Allama Matthews –
wide receiver (1979–82),
Atlanta Falcons (1983–85)
D. J. Moore –
cornerback (2006–08);
Chicago Bears (2009–2012),
Carolina Panthers (2013),
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2014)
Jess Neely –
halfback (1920–22); captain (1922); head coach,
Rice University (1940–67), Vanderbilt
athletic director (1967–71, 1973)
Dick Plasman –
end and captain (1936),
Chicago Bears (1937–41, 1944),
Chicago Cardinals (1946–47), 3×
NFL Champion , last
NFL player to play without a
helmet
[99]
Shelton Quarles – middle
linebacker (1990–93);
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1997–2006);
Super Bowl XXXVII Champion
Tom Redmond –
defensive tackle (1955–58);
St. Louis Cardinals (1960–65)
Herb Rich –
safety (1946–49);
Baltimore Colts (1950),
Los Angeles Rams (1951–53),
New York Giants (1954–56)
Bob Rives –
tackle (1923–25); All-
Southern (1924–1925);
Newark Bears (1926)
Bo Rowland –
end (1923–24); head coach,
Henderson-Brown (1925–30),
The Citadel (1940–42),
Oklahoma City (1946–47),
George Washington (1948–51)
Justin Skule –
offensive tackle (2015–2019);
San Francisco 49ers (2019–)
Rupert Smith –
halfback ,
quarterback (1921);
SIAA Champion (1921)
Bill Spears –
quarterback (1925–27);
College Football Hall of Fame (1962)
Matt Stewart –
linebacker (1997–2000);
Atlanta Falcons (2001–04),
Cleveland Browns (2005–07)
Whit Taylor –
quarterback (1979–1982);
ArenaBowl I Champion (1987),
SEC Football Legend (2003)
Ke'Shawn Vaughn –
running back (2017–19);
SEC Newcomer of the Year (2018);
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2020–)
Bradley Vierling –
center (2008–09);
Pittsburgh Steelers (2010),
Jacksonville Jaguars (2010–11),
Pittsburgh Steelers (2012)
Bill Wade –
quarterback (1949–51);
Southeastern Conference MVP (1951);
Los Angeles Rams (1954–60),
Chicago Bears (1961–66),
NFL Champion (1963)
Henry Wakefield –
end (1921–1924); consensus
All-American (1924),
All-Southern (1923, 1924)
E. M. "Nig" Waller –
quarterback (1924–26); head coach,
Middle Tennessee (1933–1934)
Stephen Weatherly –
defensive end (2013–15);
Minnesota Vikings (2016–19),
Carolina Panthers (2020–)
Chris Williams –
offensive tackle (2005–07);
Chicago Bears (2008–12),
St. Louis Rams (2012–13),
Buffalo Bills (2014)
Jimmy Williams –
defensive back (1997–2000);
San Francisco 49ers (2001–04),
Seattle Seahawks (2005–06),
Houston Texans (2008)
Jamie Winborn –
linebacker (1998–2000);
49ers (2001–05),
Jaguars (2005–06),
Buccaneers (2006–07),
Broncos (2007–08),
Titans (2009–10)
DeMond Winston –
linebacker (1986–89), captain (1989);
New Orleans Saints (1990–94)
Will Wolford –
offensive lineman (1983–85);
Buffalo Bills (1986–93),
Indianapolis Colts (1993–96),
Pittsburgh Steelers (1996–98), 3×
Pro Bowl (1990, 1992, 1995)
Todd Yoder –
tight end (1996–99);
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2000–03),
Jacksonville Jaguars (2004–05),
Washington Redskins (2006–09),
Super Bowl XXXVII Champion
Other athletes
Marina Alex –
professional golfer ,
Cambia Portland Classic Winner (2018)
[100]
Lawson Aschenbach –
professional racing driver ; 4×
Pirelli World Challenge Champion, 2014
Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Champion
[101]
Josie Barnes –
ten-pin bowler , 2021
U.S. Women's Open champion
Maria Bulanova – Russian
ten-pin bowler , youngest player ever to win a
European Bowling Tour title, age 14 (2013)
[102]
Fernanda Contreras – Mexican
professional tennis player , 2017 Riviera All-American Championship
[103]
Jon Curran –
professional golfer ,
PGA Championship T33 (2016)
Julie Ditty –
professional tennis player , career-high
WTA Tour ranking No. 89 (2008)
Andrea Farley –
professional tennis player , career-high
WTA Tour ranking No. 118 (1989)
Walter Glasgow – sailor, silver medal, fleet/match race keelboat open (
Soling ) mixed,
1976 Summer Olympics
Lina Granados – Colombian
professional soccer player ; defender,
FF Lugano 1976
Ásthildur Helgadóttir – Icelandic
soccer player,
Iceland women's national football team (1993–2007),
Breiðablik ,
KR ,
Malmö FF Dam
Tony Kuhn –
soccer player;
forward ,
Major League Soccer
Peter Lamb – South African
professional tennis player , 1978
Davis Cup team,
Wimbledon (1980)
Luke List –
professional golfer ,
PGA Championship 6th (2019)
Cheyna Matthews – Jamaican
footballer ;
forward ,
Washington Spirit ,
Jamaica women's national team
Scott A. Muller – Panamanian-American
canoeist ,
whitewater slalom in the
K-1 event at the
1996 Summer Olympics
Joan Pennington – competition
swimmer who won one silver and two gold medals at the
1978 World Aquatics Championships , qualified for the
1980 Summer Olympics
Gil Reese – first three-sport captain (1922–25), halfback on the football team, forward on the basketball team, and outfielder on the baseball team
Bobby Reynolds –
professional tennis player , career-high
ATP Tour ranking No. 63 (2009); ATP doubles title with
Andy Roddick ,
RCA Championships (2006)
Jence Ann Rhoads – professional
handball and
basketball player,
Haukar ,
Sepsi SIC ,
ICM Arad ;
Cupa României (2014);
CB Atlético Guardés
Matthias Schwab – Austrian
professional golfer ,
PGA European Tour
[104]
Peter Sharis – Olympic
rower , competed in the
men's coxless pair event at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Astra Sharma – Australian
professional tennis player , career-high
WTA Tour ranking No. 85 (2019)
Brandt Snedeker –
professional golfer , 2007
PGA Rookie of the Year , 2012
Tour Championship winner
Chelsea Stewart – Canadian
soccer player,
defender for the German
Bundesliga club
SC Freiburg
Jerry Sularz – Polish
soccer player,
Górnik Wałbrzych (1967–1973)
Aleke Tsoubanos –
professional tennis player , 4×
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Circuit titles
Shannon Vreeland – competition
swimmer , 2012 United States Olympic team, gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the
2012 London Summer Olympics
Business and economics
Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola (M.S.) – Nigerian CEO of Wecyclers in
Lagos ,
Nigeria
[105]
Jasbina Ahluwalia (B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992) – founder and CEO, Intersections Match
[106]
Michael Ainslie (B.A. 1965) – former president and CEO of
Sotheby's
[107]
Anu Aiyengar (M.B.A. 1999) – head of
mergers and acquisitions at
JPMorgan Chase & Co
[108]
James M. Anderson (J.D. 1966) – former president and CEO of the
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
[109]
John D. Arnold (B.A. 1995) – founder of Centaurus Energy and
Arnold Ventures LLC , youngest self-made billionaire in Texas
[110]
Paul S. Atkins (J.D. 1983) – CEO of Patomak Global Partners LLC
[111]
Bill Bain (B.A. 1959) – founder of
Bain & Company
[112]
Thomas W. Beasley (J.D. 1973) – co-founder of
CoreCivic
[113]
Horace E. Bemis (B.S. 1891) – founder of the
Ozan Lumber Company
[114]
Michael Bickford (B.A.) – founder and CEO of
Round Hill Capital
[115]
Dennis C. Bottorff (B.E. 1966) – chairman and CEO of the
First American Corporation ; co-founder,
Council Capital
[116]
James Cowdon Bradford Sr. (College, 1912) – chairman of
Piggly Wiggly ,
[117] founder of
J.C. Bradford & Co.
[117]
James W. Bradford (J.D. 1974) – former CEO of
AFG Industries
[118]
Michael Burry (M.D. 1997) – founder of the Scion Capital LLC hedge fund,
[119] portrayed by
Christian Bale in the 2015 film
The Big Short
Kelly Campbell (B.S. 2000) – president of
Hulu
[120]
Monroe J. Carell, Jr. (B.S. 1959) – former chairman and CEO of
Central Parking Corporation
[121]
Dong-se Cha (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1978) – Korean economist, former president of the
Korea Development Institute
[122]
Whitefoord Russell Cole (B.A. 1894) – former president of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
[123]
John Cooper (M.B.A. 1985) – former global head of technology investment banking at
Lehman Brothers
[124]
Alejandro E. Martínez Cuenca (Ph.D. 1999) – owner of
Joya de Nicaragua
[125]
Mark Dalton (J.D. 1975) – CEO of the
Tudor Investment Corporation ,
[126] Vanderbilt board of trust chairman (2010–2017)
[127]
John Danner (MEd 2002) – co-founder and CEO of
Rocketship Education ,
[128] co-founder of
NetGravity , the world's first
advertising server company
[129]
Joe C. Davis, Jr. (B.A. 1941) – founder and CEO of Davis Coals, Inc.
[130]
Krista Donaldson (B.E. 1995) – CEO of
D-Rev
[131]
David Dyer (B.E. 1971) – former CEO of
Land's End
[132] and
Tommy Hilfiger
[132]
Dan K. Eberhart (B.A.) – CEO of
Canary, LLC , managing partner of Eberhart Capital, LLC
[133]
John Edgerton (A.B. 1902, M.A.1903) – industrialist, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers (1921–1931)
[134]
John A. Elkington (B.A.) – developer, founding board member of the
National Civil Rights Museum
[135]
Bruce R. Evans (B.E. 1981) – managing director of
Summit Partners ,
[136] Vanderbilt board of trust chairman
[137]
David Farr (M.B.A. 1981) – chairman and CEO of
Emerson Electric
[138]
Mark L. Feidler (J.D. 1981) – chairman of
Equifax
[139]
Erik Feig (1988–89) – president of
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group
[140]
Zula Inez Ferguson (B.A.) – advertising manager at
Blackstone's, Los Angeles
[141]
Greg Fischer (B.A. 1980) – co-invented and founded
SerVend International , sold to
The Manitowoc Company
[142]
Sam M. Fleming (B.A. 1928) – former president of the
American Bankers Association
[143]
Adena Friedman (M.B.A. 1993) – president and CEO of
NASDAQ
[144]
Thomas F. Frist Jr. (B.A. 1960) – billionaire entrepreneur, co-founder of the
Hospital Corporation of America
[145]
Mahni Ghorashi (M.B.A. 2012) – co-founder of
Clear Labs
[146]
Mitch Glazier (J.D. 1991) – chairman and CEO of the
Recording Industry Association of America
[147]
Francis Guess (M.B.A.) – businessman and
civil rights advocate,
United States Commission on Civil Rights
[148]
John Hall (B.E. 1955) – former chairman and CEO of
Ashland Oil
[149]
Arthur B. Hancock III (B.A. 1965) – owner of
thoroughbred racehorses, owner of
Stone Farm
[150]
Matthew J. Hart (B.A. 1974) – former chairman and CEO of
Hilton Hotels Corporation
[151]
Robert D. Hays (J.D. 1983) – chairman of
King & Spalding
[152]
Bruce Henderson (B.S. 1937) – founder of the
Boston Consulting Group
[153]
Robert Selph Henry (LL.B 1910, B.A. 1911) – vice president of the
Association of American Railroads (1934–1958)
Bruce Heyman (B.A. 1979, M.B.A. 1980) – vice president and managing director of private wealth management at
Goldman Sachs
[154]
Chris Hollod (B.A. 2005) – venture capitalist and angel investor
[155]
David S. Hong (M.A. 1967) – 5th president of the
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
[156]
Frank K. Houston (B.A. 1904) – president and chairman of the
Chemical Corn Exchange Bank
[157]
Allan Hubbard (B.A. 1969) – director of the
National Economic Council
[158]
David Bronson Ingram (M.B.A. 1989) – chairman and president of
Ingram Entertainment
[159]
John R. Ingram (M.B.A. 1986) – billionaire chairman and CEO of the
Ingram Content Group
[160]
Orrin H. Ingram II (B.A. 1982) – CEO of
Ingram Industries , chairman of the
Ingram Barge Company
[161]
Paul Jacobson (MBA 1997) – CFO of
Delta Air Lines
[162]
Prashant Khemka (M.B.A. 1998) – former CIO of global emerging markets at
Goldman Sachs , founder of White Oak Capital Management
[163]
J. Hicks Lanier (B.A. 1962) – chairman and CEO of
Oxford Industries
[164]
Sartain Lanier (B.A. 1931) – chairman and CEO of
Oxford Industries
[165]
Chong Moon Lee (M.L.S. 1959) – founder of
Diamond Multimedia
[166]
Oliver Luckett (B.A. 1996) – entrepreneur, founded
Revver
[167]
R. Brad Martin (E.M.B.A. 1980) – former chairman and CEO of
Saks Incorporated
[168]
Mark P. Mays (B.A. 1985) – president and CEO of
Clear Channel Communications
[169]
Mike McWherter (J.D. 1981) – chairman of the board of First State Bank
[170]
Lydia Meredith (M.B.A) – former CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center
[171]
Todd Miller (B.A. 1988) – media executive, CEO of
Celestial Tiger Entertainment
[172]
Ann S. Moore (B.A. 1971) – former chairman and CEO of
Time Inc.
[173]
Jackson W. Moore (J.D. 1973) – former executive chairman of
Union Planters Bank and
Regions Financial Corporation
[174]
J. Reagor Motlow (B.A. 1919) – former president of
Jack Daniel's
[175]
Mubyarto (M.A. 1962) –
Indonesian economist, developer of
Pancasila economics ,
Bintang Jasa Utama (1994)
[176]
Tim Murray (E.M.B.A. 2003) – CEO of
Alba
[177]
Roy Neel (B.A. 1972) – president and CEO of the
United States Telecom Association
[178]
Ralph Owen (B.A. 1928) – chairman of
American Express
[179]
Kevin Parke (B.A. 1981) – president of the
Todd Wagner Foundation ,
[180] former president of
Landmark Theatres
[181]
Doug Parker (M.B.A. 1986) – chairman, president, and CEO of
American Airlines Group
[182]
Sunil Paul (B.E. 1987) – entrepreneur, founder of
Brightmail ,
[183] co-founder and CEO of
Sidecar
[184]
Brittany Perkins (B.A. 2008) – CEO of
AshBritt Environmental
[185]
H. Ross Perot, Jr. (B.A. 1981) – billionaire chairman and CEO of
Perot Systems ,
[186] former owner of the
Dallas Mavericks
[187]
Charles Plosser (B.E. 1970) – president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ,
[188] former co-editor of the
Journal of Monetary Economics
[189]
Edgar E. Rand (B.A. 1927) – former president of the
International Shoe Company
[190]
Frank C. Rand (B.A. 1898) – former president of the
International Shoe Company ,
[191] Vanderbilt board of trust chairman (1935–1949)
[192]
Henry Hale Rand (B.A. 1929) – former president of the
International Shoe Company
[193]
Alexis Readinger (B.A. 1996) – founder of Preen, Inc.
[194]
Mark Reuss (B.A. 1986) – president of
General Motors
[195]
Catherine Reynolds (B.S. 1979) – former CEO of
EduCap , chairman/CEO, Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation,
Bloomberg Businessweek top 50 philanthropic Americans
[196]
Russ Robinson (B.A. 1979) – founder and CEO of Global Steel Dust
[197]
Joe L. Roby (B.A. 1961) – chairman emeritus,
Credit Suisse investment banking division
[198]
Jeffrey J. Rothschild (B.A. 1977, M.S. 1979) – billionaire
entrepreneur and executive, founding engineer of
Facebook
[199]
Mike Shehan (B.S. 1994) – co-founder and CEO of
SpotX
[200]
Jane Silber (M.S.) – former CEO of
Canonical Ltd.
[201]
Chip Skowron (B.A. 1990) –
portfolio manager at
FrontPoint Partners
[202]
John Sloan Jr. (B.A. 1958) – VP of the
First American National Bank ,
[203] President and CEO of the
National Federation of Independent Business
[204]
Alexander C. Taylor (B.A. 1997) – president and CEO of
Cox Enterprises
[205]
Betty Thayer (M.B.A. 1982) – CEO of Exec-appointments.com, sold to
Financial Times
[206]
Hall W. Thompson – founder and developer of
Shoal Creek Club
[207]
Cal Turner, Jr. (B.A. 1962) – billionaire CEO of
Dollar General
[208]
William S. Vaughn (B.A. 1923) –
Rhodes Scholar , former president and chairman of
Eastman Kodak
[209]
Thomas B. Walker, Jr. (B.A. 1947) –
Goldman Sachs senior director,
[210] Vanderbilt board of trust
[210]
Emily White (B.A. 2000) – former COO of
Snapchat , current board member of
Hyperloop One
[211]
Christopher J. Wiernicki (B.S.) – chairman, president, and CEO of
American Bureau of Shipping
[212]
Darrin Williams (J.D. 1993) – CEO of
Southern Bancorp Inc.
[213]
Jesse Ely Wills (B.A. 1922) – chairman of the
National Life and Accident Insurance Company
[214]
David K. Wilson (B.A. 1941) – co-founder and president of Cherokee Equity,
[215] chairman of
Genesco ,
[215] Vanderbilt board of trust chairman (1981–91)
[216]
Toby S. Wilt (B.E. 1967) – president, TSW Investment Company,
[217] director,
CapStar Bank
[218]
Philip C. Wolf (M.B.A. 1980) – founder and CEO of
PhoCusWright
[219]
Muhammad Yunus (Ph.D. 1971) – founder of
Grameen Bank ,
[220] pioneer of
microcredit ; 2006
Nobel Peace Prize winner,
[221] 2009
Presidential Medal of Freedom
[222]
Entertainment and fashion
Laur Allen (B.A. 2011) – actress best known for her role of Juliet Helton on the soap opera series
The Young and the Restless
[223]
Rachel Baiman – folk singer-songwriter
Jim Beavers (M.B.A. 1996) – songwriter, former director of marketing for
Capitol Records
[224]
Dierks Bentley (B.A. 1997) –
country musician
Curtis Benton – actor,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916),
Jealousy (1916),
Kid Galahad (1937); writer,
The Uninvited Guest (1924)
Cinda Boomershine (B.A. 1994) – founder of fashion accessory line
Cinda b
Harold Bradley * (B.A. 1949) – session guitarist and entrepreneur,
Musicians Hall of Fame (2007)
Joe Bob Briggs (B.A. 1974) –
syndicated American
film critic , writer, actor, and comic performer
Logan Browning (B.A. 2011) – actress, lead in
Dear White People
[225]
Paula Cale – actress best known for her role as Joanie Hansen on the series
Providence
Rosanne Cash (B.A. 1979) –
Grammy Award -winning singer and songwriter
Fred Coe * – television and Broadway producer and director,
Peabody and
Emmy Award winner
[226]
Rod Daniel (B.A. 1964) – television and film director best known for the
Michael J. Fox film
Teen Wolf (1985)
Kim Dickens (B.A. 1987) – actress,
Deadwood (2004–06),
Gone Girl (2014),
House of Cards (2015–17)
Deena Dill (B.S. 1992) – actress and television executive producer
Jimmie Dodd – host of the
Walt Disney's
The Mickey Mouse Club , actor,
Easter Parade (1948),
Quicksand (1950)
George Ducas (B.A. 1989) – country music artist
Bob Ferguson (M.A.) –
Billboard -topping songwriter, senior record producer for
RCA Victor
Chad Gervich (B.A. 1996) – television writer;
playwright ; author,
Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writers Guide to the TV Business
Amy Grant – six-time
Grammy -winning
contemporary Christian music artist (dropped out)
William Gray Espy – actor,
The Young and the Restless
Richard Hull (B.A. 1992) – media and entertainment executive; producer,
She's All That ; 2011
NAACP Image Award
[227]
Claude Jarman Jr. – former child actor, received a
special Academy Award as outstanding child actor of 1946 for
The Yearling
[228]
Kevin Royal Johnson (B.E. 1984) – singer-songwriter, founding member of
The Linemen
[229]
Duncan Jones – British film director,
Source Code (2011),
Warcraft (2016),
Mute (2018),
BAFTA Award winner
Edward Kerr (B.A. 1990) – actor,
Pretty Little Liars , starred in
Above Suspicion
Jill King (B.A. 1996) – country music artist
Lance Kinsey (B.A. 1975) – Canadian actor and screenwriter, best known for his role as
Lt. Proctor in the
Police Academy film series
Richard Kyanka (M.A.) – creator of humor website
Something Awful
Susanna Kwan (M.F.A.) – Hong Kong singer and actress,
Heart of Greed ,
Moonlight Resonance
Lunic (B.S. 1999) – songwriter, singer, electronic musician, and multi-instrumentalist Kaitee Page
Steven Machat (J.D. 1977) – entertainment mogul and producer
Chris Mann (B.M. 2004) – singer; fourth place in season 2 of
The Voice
Delbert Mann (B.A. 1941) –
Academy Award -winning director for
Marty (1955)
Theresa Meeker (M.Ed.) – written, web, and video content creator
James Melton – popular music actor/singer,
Stars Over Broadway (1935),
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
R. Stevie Moore – multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter who pioneered
lo-fi/DIY music
Zack Norman – entertainer and film financier, known for his role as Ira in
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Bettie Page * (B.A. 1944) – model, 1950s
pin-up icon
[230]
Zhubin Parang (B.A. 2003) – head writer of
The Daily Show
[231]
Saladin K. Patterson – writer,
Frasier ,
The Bernie Mac Show ; creator and executive producer,
The Wonder Years
[232]
Woody Paul (B.E. 1977) – member of
Riders in the Sky
Michael Pollack (B.A. 2016) –
Grammy-nominated
Top 40 songwriter and record producer
Amy Ray – singer, songwriter, member of the
Indigo Girls (transferred)
Donna Sachet (B.A. 1976) –
drag actor, singer, and activist
Dinah Shore (B.A. 1938) – top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s;
[233] actress; television host,
The Dinah Shore Show ,
Dinah!
Scott Siman (B.A. 1976) – music executive, artist manager, former chairman of the
Academy of Country Music
Molly Sims – model, actress (dropped out to pursue modeling)
Brock Speer (M.Div.) – bass singer for the
Speer Family
Southern Gospel group
Chris Stapleton (dropped out) – singer-songwriter, guitarist, and
record producer
Stephanie Storey (B.A. 1997) – actress; screenwriter; director; novelist; producer,
The Writers' Room
Amanda Sudano – singer-songwriter, member of
Johnnyswim
Brooklyn Sudano – model, actress, and singer
Mikey Wax – singer-songwriter
Tim Weiland (B.A. 2006) – fashion designer and DJ; founder,
creative director ,
Timo Weiland
[234]
Whitney Wolanin (B.S. 2011) – singer and songwriter
Paul Worley (B.A. 1972) – record producer, discovered
Lady Antebellum and the
Dixie Chicks
Andrea Zonn (B.M.) – singer and
fiddle player
[235]
Government, politics, and activism
U.S. vice presidents
U.S. Cabinet and heads of federal agencies
Lamar Alexander (B.A. 1962) – 5th
United States Secretary of Education
Jake Brewer (B.S. 2004) –
White House senior policy adviser in the
Office of Science and Technology Policy ,
Obama administration
H. Lee Buchanan III (B.S. 1971, M.S. 1972) – 4th
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition)
Robert W. Cobb (B.A. 1982) –
NASA Inspector General (2002–2009)
Tom Cochran (B.A.) –
White House Director of New Media Technologies,
Obama administration
Bill Corr (J.D. 1973) – 9th Deputy Secretary of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services
James Danly (J.D. 2013) – commissioner of the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[237]
Norman Davis – 2nd
Under Secretary of State ; represented the U.S. at the
Paris Peace Conference ,
League of Nations , and
Geneva Conference
[238]
Paul Rand Dixon (B.A. 1936) – former chairman and 14th
Commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission (1961–1969, 1976)
[239]
[240]
John Edgerton (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1903) – held economic executive appointments by President
Warren G. Harding and President
Herbert Hoover
William Yandell Elliott (B.A. 1918) – member of the
Fugitives ,
Rhodes Scholar , political advisor to six U.S. presidents
Phyllis Fong (J.D. 1978) – inspector general of the
United States Department of Agriculture
[241]
Vince Foster – former Deputy
White House Chief of Staff
J. Christopher Giancarlo (J.D. 1984) – 38th chairman of the United States
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Tipper Gore (M.A. 1975) – activist, 35th
Second Lady of the United States
E. William Henry (J.D. 1957) – 14th chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
Allan B. Hubbard (B.A. 1969) – economic adviser to President
George W. Bush , 6th director of the
National Economic Council
Gus Hunt (B.E. 1977, M.E. 1982) – chief technology officer at the
CIA
Mickey Kantor (B.A. 1951) – 11th
United States Trade Representative , 31st
United States Secretary of Commerce
Robert L. King (J.D. 1971) –
Assistant Secretary of Education , serving as head of the
Office of Postsecondary Education
[242]
Bill Lacy (B.A.) – political operative, business executive, and director of the
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics
Howard Liebengood (J.D. 1967) – 27th
Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
Marvin H. McIntyre – 17th
Secretary to the President of the United States ,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James Clark McReynolds (B.S. 1882) – 48th
Attorney General of the United States
Roy Neel (B.A. 1972) – deputy chief of staff for
former president Bill Clinton ; 8th chief of staff for
Al Gore
Paul C. Ney Jr. (JD, MBA 1984) –
General Counsel of the Department of Defense of the United States,
Trump administration
[243]
Jerry Parr (B.A. 1962) –
United States Secret Service agent, credited with helping to save
President Reagan's life on the day of his
assassination attempt
[244]
[245]
Stephen D. Potts (B.A. 1952, LL.B 1954) – 4th director of the
United States Office of Government Ethics
[246]
Roger Ream (B.A. 1977) – president of
The Fund for American Studies (TFAS)
Phil Reitinger (B.E. 1984) – former director of the
National Cybersecurity Center at the
Department of Homeland Security
[247]
John Wesley Snyder – 54th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Hans von Spakovsky (J.D. 1984) – 22nd
Federal Election Commission Commissioner
Nancy Soderberg (B.A. 1980) – foreign policy advisor, strategist,
U.S. National Security Council , representative to the
United Nations Security Council
Jay Solomon (B.A. 1942) – 10th
Administrator of the General Services Administration
John R. Steelman (M.A. 1924) – 1st
White House Chief of Staff ,
Truman Administration
Gordon O. Tanner (J.D. 1973) –
General Counsel of the Air Force
Jon R. Thomas (M.A. 1995) –
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters ,
United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs
John J. Tigert (B.A. 1904) – 7th
United States Commissioner of Education
Stephen Vaden (B.A.) – general counsel of the
United States Department of Agriculture ,
Trump administration
Carlos Clark Van Leer (LL.B 1895) –
Chief of the Personnel Classification Board ,
United States Department of the Treasury
Stephen Vaughn (B.A. 1988) – former acting
United States Trade Representative , general counsel to the
United States Trade Representative
[248]
Jack Watson (B.A. 1960) – 9th
White House Chief of Staff ,
Carter Administration
Gus W. Weiss (B.A.) –
White House policy adviser on technology, intelligence and economic affairs, worked on the
Farewell Dossier
[249]
[250]
U.S. governors
Members of the U.S. Senate
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Supreme Court justices
U.S. Ambassadors and diplomats
Alvin P. Adams Jr. (LL.B 1967) – former
United States Ambassador to Peru ,
Haiti , and
Djibouti
Waldo Emerson Bailey * (M.A. 1927) –
U.S. Consul to
London, England
[253]
John Barrett – former
United States Ambassador to Colombia ,
Panama , and
Argentina
William J. Cabaniss (B.A. 1960) – 5th
United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Roxanne Cabral (B.A.) – 10th
United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands
Brian E. Carlson (B.A. 1969) – 10th
United States Ambassador to Latvia
William Prentice Cooper, Jr. – 31st
United States Ambassador to Peru
Marion V. Creekmore Jr. (B.A. 1961) – 8th
United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
K. Terry Dornbush (B.A. 1955) – 60th
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
Guilford Dudley (B.A. 1929) – 49th
United States Ambassador to Denmark
Thomas C. Ferguson (B.A. 1955, J.D. 1959) – 2nd
United States Ambassador to Brunei
William Hagerty (B.A. 1981, J.D. 1984) – 30th
United States Ambassador to Japan
Bruce Heyman (B.A. 1979, M.B.A. 1980) – 30th
United States Ambassador to Canada
Greta C. Holtz (B.S. 1982) –
United States Ambassador to Oman and
Qatar
Marshall Fletcher McCallie (B.A. 1967) – 2nd
United States Ambassador to Namibia
Louis J. Nigro Jr. (Ph.D. 1979) – 19th
United States Ambassador to Chad
W. Robert Pearson (B.A. 1965) – 23rd
United States Ambassador to Turkey , president of
IREX
Gautam A. Rana (J.D. 1997) – 10th
United States Ambassador to Slovakia
Jim Sasser (B.A. 1958, J.D. 1961) – 44th
United States Ambassador to China
Linda Ellen Watt (B.A. 1973) – 36th
United States Ambassador to Panama
Mayors
Megan Barry (MBA 1993) – former
mayor of Nashville
Tennessee
Ann Womer Benjamin (B.A. 1975) – mayor of
Aurora, Ohio
Bill Boner (M.A. 1969) – former
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
Beverly Briley – former
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
Bill Campbell (B.A. 1974) – former
mayor of Atlanta ,
Georgia
Miguel Colasuonno (Ph.D.) – former
mayor of
São Paulo ,
Brazil
John Cooper (M.B.A. 1985) –
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
Thomas L. Cummings Sr. (J.D. 1915) – former
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
Karl Dean (J.D. 1981) – former
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
J. Kane Ditto (J.D. 1969) – former mayor of
Jackson, Mississippi
Greg Fischer (B.A. 1980) – mayor of
Louisville, Kentucky
Jim Gray (B.A. 1975) – former mayor of
Lexington, Kentucky
Dorsey B. Hardeman (LL.B 1931) – former mayor of
San Angelo, Texas
Pam Hemminger (B.A. 1982) – mayor of
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nelson Madore (Ed.D. 1982) – former mayor of
Waterville, Maine
Dee Margo (B.A. 1974) – mayor of
El Paso, Texas
Bill Purcell (J.D. 1979) – former
mayor of Nashville ,
Tennessee
Steven Reed (MBA 2004) –
mayor of Montgomery, Alabama
Woodall Rodgers (B.A. 1912) –
mayor of Dallas ,
Texas
Sam Sutter (J.D. 1983) – former
mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts
Tom Tait (J.D., M.B.A. 1985) – mayor of
Anaheim, California
Joseph Vas (B.A) – former
mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Ben West – former
mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Other U.S. state officials
Jon Applebaum (B.A. 2007) – former member of the
Minnesota House of Representatives
Bruce Bennett (J.D. 1949) – 38th
Attorney General of Arkansas
Preston Lang Bethea * (B.A. 1891) – member of the
South Carolina Senate
Bob Blake (LL.B 1908) – president of the
Missouri Constitutional Convention in 1944
[254]
Will Bond (B.A. 1992) – member of the
Arkansas Senate
William West Bond (B.A. 1907) – 62nd speaker of the
Tennessee Senate
George Street Boone (J.D. 1941) – member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives
Peter Breen (B.E. 1997) – member of the
Illinois House of Representatives
Dick Brewbaker (B.S. 1983) – former member of the
Alabama Senate
Tony Brown (M.A.) – former member of the
Kansas House of Representatives
Lance Cargill (J.D. 1996) – lawyer and former
speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
William Prentice Cooper, Sr. (B.A. 1890) –
speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Brad Courtney (B.A. 1981) – chairman of the
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Alexander G. Crockett (M.D. 1885) – former member of the
Virginia Senate
Cal Cunningham – former member of the
North Carolina Senate
Riley Darnell (J.D. 1965) – 37th
Tennessee Secretary of State
Walter Naylor Davis (B.A. 1898) – 34th
Lieutenant governor of Missouri
Neria Douglass (J.D. 1977) – 50th
Maine State Treasurer
Steve Freudenthal (J.D. 1975) – 28th
Attorney General of Wyoming
Chris Gebhard (B.A. 1996) – member of the
Pennsylvania Senate
Bill Gibbons (J.D.) – District Attorney General of
Memphis, Tennessee
Mary Stuart Gile (Ed.D. 1982) – former member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Michele Guyton (B.A. 1989) – member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Dorsey B. Hardeman (LL.B 1931) – former member of the
Texas House of Representatives and the
Texas Senate
William C. Harrison (Ed.D. 1985) – former chairman of the
North Carolina State Board of Education
Beth Harwell (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982) – 81st
speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives , member of the board of directors of the
Tennessee Valley Authority
Douglas Henry (B.A. 1949, J.D. 1951) – member of the
Tennessee Senate , activist
Roy Herron (J.D. 1980, M.Div. 1980) – former chairman of the
Tennessee Democratic Party
Ashley Hudson (B.A. 2001) – member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives
David J. Jordan (J.D. 1979) – chair of the
Board of Regents of the
Utah System of Higher Education
Jonathan Jordan (M.B.A. 1992) – former member of the
North Carolina House of Representatives
Harold A. Katz (B.A. 1943) – former member of the
Illinois House of Representatives
Robert L. King (J.D.) – former member of the
New York State Assembly
Naomi C. Matusow (B.A. 1960) – member of the
New York State Assembly
William Harding Mayes (LL.B 1881) –
Lieutenant governor of Texas
Mindy McAlindon , member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
J. Washington Moore (B.A. 1890, LL.B 1891) – Eminent Supreme Archon of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon , 1891–1894
[255]
Seth Walker Norman – former member of the
Tennessee House of Representatives
Mary Margaret Oliver (B.A. 1969) – member of the
Georgia House of Representatives
Howard T. Owens Jr. (J.D. 1959) – former member of the
Connecticut Senate
Steve Owens (J.D. 1981) – chairman of the
Arizona Democratic Party
E. Melvin Porter (J.D. 1959) – member of the
Oklahoma Senate ,
civil rights leader
Barbara Rusling (B.A. 1966) – former member of the
Texas House of Representatives
Edward T. Seay (LL.B 1891) – former speaker of the
Tennessee Senate
Amanda Septimo (B.A. 2021) – member of the
New York State Assembly
David H. Simmons (J.D. 1977) – president pro tempore of the
Florida Senate
David Simpson (B.A. 1983) – former member of the
Texas House of Representatives
W. P. Sims (B.A. 1899) – former member of the
Arizona Senate
Charlie Stallworth (M.Div.) – member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
Joe Straus (B.A. 1982) – speaker of the
Texas House of Representatives
Jim Summerville (M.A. 1983) – former member of the
Tennessee Senate
John Peroutt Taylor (M.D. 1881) – 32nd
Mississippi State Treasurer
Paul Thurmond (B.S. 1998) – former member of the
South Carolina Senate
Joseph Vas (B.A) – former member of the
New Jersey General Assembly
Jody Wagner (J.D. 1980) – 12th
Virginia Secretary of Finance
Justin P. Wilson (J.D. 1970) – lawyer,
Comptroller of Tennessee
Foreign presidents, prime ministers, heads of government
Other foreign officials
Activists
Will W. Alexander (B.Th. 1912) – founder of the
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
John Amaechi ,
OBE – English
psychologist , consultant, first former NBA player to
come out publicly (transferred)
[268]
Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Ph.D. 2000) –
Ghanaian public intellectual, activist and scholar,
Fulbright Scholar
[269]
Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein (B.A. 1877 Peabody) – American history professor, clubwoman, and suffragist
David Boaz (B.A. 1975) – executive vice president,
Cato Institute , leading
libertarian thinker
Yun Chi-ho (Div. 1888–1891) – political activist and thinker during the late 1800s and early 1900s in
Joseon Korea
George Childress * (B.A. 1826 Peabody) – lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the
Texas Declaration of Independence
J. McRee Elrod * (M.A. 1953) –
Methodist activist for the
Civil Rights Movement , anti-war movements of the 1960s, and the gay pride movement
Hiram Wesley Evans – dental student (did not graduate),
Imperial Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan
[270]
Peter Farb (B.A. 1950) – author and noted spokesman for
environmental conservation
Tom Fox (B.A. 1973) –
Quaker
peace activist , kidnapped on November 26, 2005, in
Baghdad , leading to the
2005–2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis
Morris Frank (B.A. 1929) – founder of
The Seeing Eye , the first guide-dog school in the United States, activist for accessibility for the visually impaired
John E. Fryer (M.D. 1962) – gay rights activist known for his
anonymous speech at the 1972
American Psychiatric Association conference where he appeared in disguise as Dr. Henry Anonymous
Bennett Haselton (M.A.) – founder of
Circumventor.com and
Peacefire .org, listed in Google Vulnerability Program Hall of Fame for finding and fixing security holes in Google products
[271]
John Jay Hooker (J.D. 1957) – lawyer, entrepreneur, political
gadfly , special assistant to
Robert F. Kennedy
[272]
Elizabeth Dearborn Hughes (B.A. 2006) – founder of the
Akilah Institute in
Kigali ,
Rwanda 's first
women's college
[273]
Howard Kester (B.D. 1931) – clergyman and social reformer, organized the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union designed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
[274]
George Ross Kirkpatrick –
anti-militarist writer and political activist,
1916 vice presidential nominee of the
Socialist Party of America
James Lawson (M.Div. 1960) –
civil rights pioneer
Robert V. Lee (B.A. 1972) – humanitarian, Episcopal priest, chairman and CEO of
FreshMinistries ,
HIV/AIDS activist
[275]
Millicent Lownes-Jackson (M.B.A., Ph.D.) – founder, The World Institute for Sustainable Education and Research (The WISER Group)
[276]
Sara Alderman Murphy (B.A. 1945) –
civil rights activist , founder of Peace Links
[277]
Marie Ragghianti (B.S. 1975) –
parole board administrator,
whistleblower who exposed
Ray Blanton 's "
clemency for cash" scandal
[278]
Arthur F. Raper (M.A. 1925) – sociologist,
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Charlie Soong (B.Th. 1885) – Chinese missionary and businessman, key figure in the
Xinhai Revolution of 1911, father of the
Soong sisters
Julie Tien (M.L.S.) – Taiwanese politician and activist, National Women's League of
Taiwan
[279]
Madhavi Venkatesan (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – economist and
environmental activist , founder and executive director of
Sustainable Practices
[280]
Don West (D.Div. 1932) –
civil rights activist, labor organizer, poet, educator
Marie C. Wilson (B.A. 1962) – founder and president emerita of
The White House Project , founder of
Ms. Foundation for Women
[281]
Wolf Wolfensberger * (Ph.D. 1962) – influencer of
disability policy through his development of
social role valorization , exposed
Nazi death camp targeting of the disabled
Journalism and media
Michelle Alexander (B.A. 1989) – author of
The New Jim Crow , columnist for
The New York Times ,
Truman Scholar
Joseph Alexander Altsheler – reporter and editor,
New York World
Thomas J. Anderson (B.A. 1934) – columnist and publisher,
American Party presidential nominee in
1976
[282]
Skip Bayless (B.A. 1974) –
Fox Sports personality and nationally syndicated columnist
William E. Beard (B.A. 1893) – journalist, war correspondent, naval historian
Roy Blount Jr. (B.A 1963) – humorist, sportswriter, and author
Mel Bradford (Ph.D. 1962) –
paleoconservative political commentator
David Brinkley –
broadcast journalist ,
NBC and
ABC ;
Emmy and
Peabody Award winner;
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)
[283]
Samuel Ashley Brown (Ph.D. 1958) – founder of the literary magazine
Shenandoah
Innis Brown (B.A. 1906) – sporting editor of
The Atlanta Journal ,
Rhodes Scholar
[284]
Deena Clark (M.A.) – television news reporter and journalist, The Deena Clark Show on
CBS
Lorianne Crook (B.A. 1978) – radio and television host, co-host of
Crook & Chase
Terrance Dean (M.A., Ph.D.) – former
MTV executive and author of
Hiding in Hip-Hop
Alonso Duralde (B.A. 1988) – senior film critic,
The Wrap ; syndicate writer,
Reuters
Linda Ellerbee (A&S 1962–64) – journalist for
NBC News , host of
Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
Eric Etheridge (B.A. 1979) – first editor of
George magazine; author,
Breach of Peace (2008)
Frye Gaillard (B.A. 1968) – former editor at
The Charlotte Observer
Willie Geist (B.A. 1997) – humorist and host on
NBC 's
Today , anchor of
Sunday Today with Willie Geist , co-anchor of
MSNBC 's
Morning Joe
Laurentino Gomes – Brazilian journalist and writer, author of
1808 and
1822
John Steele Gordon (B.A. 1966) – business and finance writer,
Wall Street Journal contributor
[285]
Fred Graham (LL.B 1959) – chief anchor and managing editor of the former
Court TV , legal correspondent for the
New York Times , and
CBS News
Clint Grant –
photojournalist featured in
Paris Match ,
Newsweek ,
Time , and
Life , covered the
assassination of John F. Kennedy
Amelia Greenhall (B.E. 2009) – co-founder and executive director of
Double Union , tech blogger
George Zhibin Gu – Chinese political and economic journalist
Alex Heard (B.A. 1980) – editorial director of Outside magazine; editor and writer for
The New York Times Magazine ,
The New Republic ,
The Washington Post and
Slate
Molly Henneberg (B.S. 1995) – correspondent,
Fox News
Hunter Hillenmeyer (B.A. 2003) – financial columnist for
TheStreet.com
[286]
Henry Blue Kline (M.A. 1929) – member of the
Southern Agrarians
Hildy Kuryk (B.A. 1999) – director of communications,
Vogue ; former national finance director,
Democratic National Committee
[287]
Paul Lakeland (Ph.D. 1981) – British author, contributing blogger to
The Huffington Post
[288] and a contributing writer to
Commonweal
Jincey Lumpkin (B.A. 2002) – producer and columnist for the
Huffington Post ,
[289] named one of the 100 most influential gay people by
Out Magazine
[290]
Andrew Maraniss (B.A. 1992) – author of Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Ralph McGill (B.A. 1916) –
anti-segregationist
Atlanta Constitution editor and publisher, 1959
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
[291]
Don McNay (M.A.) – financial author and
The Huffington Post contributor
[292]
Buster Olney (B.A. 1988) –
ESPN baseball writer, former sportswriter for
The New York Times
Richard Quest – British reporter, anchor for
CNN International
[293]
Wendell Rawls, Jr. (B.A. 1970) – journalist at
The Philadelphia Inquirer and
The New York Times ,
[294] 1977
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
[295]
Grantland Rice (B.A. 1901) – sportswriter,
Atlanta Journal ,
Cleveland News ,
New York Tribune ; namesake,
Grantland Rice Trophy
Fred Russell (B.A. 1927) – sportswriter, Golden Era of Sports,
Saturday Evening Post
Christine Sadler * (B.A. 1927) – pioneer
female journalist ; reporter and Sunday editor,
The Washington Post ; Washington, D.C., editor,
McCall's
[296]
Jeffrey D. Sadow (Ph.D. 1985) –
political scientist , columnist
Sebastião Salgado (M.A. 1968) – Brazilian
social documentary
photographer and
photojournalist ,
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador ,
Académie des Beaux-Arts
[297]
James Sandler (M.S. 2012) – investigative journalist,
New York Times ,
PBS Frontline ; 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (team)
[298]
Edward Schumacher-Matos (B.A. 1968) – former
ombudsman ,
NPR ; reporter;
The New York Times and
The Wall Street Journal ; op-ed columnist,
The Washington Post ; 1980
Pulitzer Prize (team)
[299]
John Seigenthaler – founding editorial director of
USA Today ,
First Amendment rights advocate, founder of the
First Amendment Center
[300]
Elaine Shannon (B.A. 1968) –
investigative journalist , former political correspondent for
Newsweek and
Time
[301]
Jim Squires (B.A. 1966) – former editor of the
Chicago Tribune
[302]
James G. Stahlman (B.A. 1916) – publisher of the
Nashville Banner , philanthropist,
Maria Moors Cabot Prize winner
[303]
Bill Steltemeier (B.A., J.D.) – founding president of the
Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
[304]
Clay Travis (J.D. 2004) – radio host
William Ridley Wills (B.A. 1956) – novelist, poet and journalist, member of the Fugitive group, Sunday Editor for the
New York World
Edwin Wilson (B.A. 1950) –
theater critic for
The Wall Street Journal (1972–1994), former president of the
New York Drama Critics' Circle
E. Thomas Wood (B.A. 1986) – author and journalist
Law
Attorneys
Lawrence Barcella (J.D. 1970) – criminal defense lawyer,
Assistant United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia , lead counsel for the
House October Surprise Task Force [
citation needed ]
Lucius E. Burch Jr. (B.A. 1930, J.D. 1936) – attorney, best known for his contributions to conservation,
civil rights movement and being attorney for
Martin Luther King Jr.
[305]
[306]
Donald Q. Cochran (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1992) –
United States Attorney for the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
[307]
Bobby Lee Cook –
defense attorney , inspiration for the television series
Matlock main character
Ben Matlock , which starred
Andy Griffith as a Georgia attorney
[308]
[309]
Hickman Ewing (B.A. 1964) –
United States attorney ,
special prosecutor who oversaw the
Whitewater investigation
[310]
Zachary T. Fardon (B.A. 1988, J.D. 1992) – United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois , U.S. Attorney in Chicago, appointed by
Barack Obama
[311]
Alice S. Fisher (B.A. 1989) –
Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C., office of
Latham & Watkins LLP .,
[312] former
assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the
US Department of Justice
Sylvan Gotshal (B.A. 1917) – lawyer, known for his advocacy of
industrial design rights ,
[313]
[314] founding partner of
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Margie Pitts Hames (J.D. 1961) – civil rights lawyer who argued the
abortion rights case
Doe v. Bolton before the
U.S. Supreme Court
[315]
Marci Hamilton (B.A. 1979) – lawyer, won
Boerne v. Flores (1997), Constitutional law scholar, Fox Family Pavilion Distinguished Scholar at the
University of Pennsylvania
[316]
Robert J. Kabel (J.D. 1972) – attorney and lobbyist with
Faegre Baker Daniels , involved in developing the
Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (1999) and the
Dodd-Frank Act (2010)
[317]
John Bell Keeble (LL.B 1888) – attorney, co-founded Keeble, Seay, Stockwell and Keeble,
[318]
Vanderbilt University Law School Dean (1915–29)
Jack Kershaw (B.A. 1935) – attorney and sculptor who represented
James Earl Ray
[319]
James C. Kirby (B.A. 1950) – former chief counsel to the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution , co-authored the
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution
[320]
Charles M. La Follette (J.D.) – deputy chief of counsel for the post-World War II
Nuremberg Trials (1947)
Alice Martin (B.S. 1978) – former
United States Attorney who amassed 140
public corruption convictions and collected approximately $750M in
qui tam healthcare fraud settlements
[321]
James F. Neal (J.D. 1957) – trial lawyer,
Watergate prosecutor who prosecuted
Jimmy Hoffa and top officials of the
Nixon Administration , special investigator of the
Abscam and
Iran-contra scandals
John Randolph Neal Jr. (LL.B 1896) – attorney, best known for his role as chief counsel during the 1925
Scopes trial
Neil Papiano (LL.B 1961) – lawyer, and managing partner of Iverson, Yoakum, Papiano & Hatch
Michelle M. Pettit (J.D. 2001) –
Assistant United States Attorney from
California , National Security and Cybercrimes Section
[322]
William Bradford Reynolds (LL.B 1967) –
Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
US Department of Justice 's
Civil Rights Division (1981–1988)
Ronald J. Rychlak (J.D. 1983) – lawyer,
jurist , and political commentator
James Gordon Shanklin (B.A., LL.B 1935) – lawyer, key player in the investigation of the
Kennedy assassination , co-implemented the
FBI 's
National Crime Information Center
Jack Thompson (J.D. 1976) – Vanderbilt Law School, disbarred attorney and activist against
obscenity and violence in media and entertainment
Horace Henry White (B.A. 1886, LL.B 1887) – lawyer, authored legal volumes White's Notarial Guide and White's Analytical Index
[323]
Walton J. Wood – attorney and
jurist who served as the first
public defender in United States history (1914–1921)
Jurists
Tamara W. Ashford (J.D. 1994) –
Article I
judge of the
United States Tax Court
Jennings Bailey (B.L. 1890) –
District Judge for the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jeffrey S. Bivins (J.D. 1986) – Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Claria Horn Boom (J.D. 1994) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for Eastern and Western
Kentucky
John P. Bourcier (J.D. 1953) – former justice of the
Rhode Island Supreme Court
John K. Bush (B.A. 1986) – U.S. Circuit Court Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (2017–present)
Charles Hardy Carr (B.A. 1925) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of California and
Central California
Albert M. Clark (LL.B 1900) – justice of the
Supreme Court of Missouri
Cornelia Clark (B.A. 1971) – justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Elijah Allen Cox (B.A. 1909) –
federal judge for the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. (J.D. 1981) –
Chief Judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Larry Creson (LL.B 1928) – former justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Frank P. Culver Jr. (B.A. 1911) – former justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas
Martha Craig Daughtrey (B.A. 1964) – senior
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Frank Drowota (B.A. 1960, J.D. 1965) – former
chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Eric Eisnaugle (J.D. 2003) – judge of the
Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal
Julia Smith Gibbons (B.A. 1972) –
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
S. Price Gilbert (B.S. 1883) – former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia
David J. Hale (B.A. 1982) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
William Joseph Haynes Jr. (J.D. 1973) – former
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Thomas Aquinas Higgins (B.A. 1954, LL.B 1957) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
John W. Holland (LL.B 1906) – former
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Andrew O. Holmes (B.S. 1927, LL.B. 1929) – justice of the
Tennessee Supreme Court
[324]
Marcia Morales Howard (B.S. 1987) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Oscar Richard Hundley (LL.B 1877) –
United States Federal Judge by
recess appointment from President
Theodore Roosevelt
Albert C. Hunt (LL.B 1909) – former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Edwin Hunt (B.A., J.D.) – appellate advocate,
Assistant Attorney General ,
[325] U.S. checkers champion (1934)
[326]
Daniel E. Hydrick (B.A. 1882) – former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Alan Bond Johnson (B.A. 1961) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Wyoming
William F. Jung (B.A. 1980) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Jeremy Kernodle (J.D. 2001) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
[327]
William C. Koch Jr. (J.D. 1972) – former justice of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee
W. H. Kornegay (LL.B 1890) – former associate justice of the
Oklahoma Supreme Court , delegate to Oklahoma
Constitutional Convention
James C. Mahan (J.D. 1973) – senior
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Jon Phipps McCalla (J.D. 1974) – senior
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Leon Clarence McCord (Law, 1900) – senior
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Travis Randall McDonough (J.D. 1997) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
Robert Malcolm McRae Jr. (B.A. 1943) – former
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
James Clark McReynolds (B.A. 1882) –
Supreme Court Justice (1914–1941);
Assistant Attorney General (1903–1907)
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. (LL.B 1960) – lawyer and
jurist , senior
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Edward H. Meyers (B.A. 1995) –
United States Federal Judge of the
United States Court of Federal Claims
Benjamin K. Miller (J.D. 1961) – former chief justice of the
Illinois Supreme Court
Brian Stacy Miller (J.D. 1995) –
Chief United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
John Musmanno (J.D. 1966) – senior judge of the
Pennsylvania Superior Court
John Trice Nixon (LL.B 1960) – senior
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Tom Parker (J.D.) – Chief Justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court
Tommy Parker (J.D. 1989) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Marlin T. Phelps (J.D.) – former chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Arizona
Thomas W. Phillips (J.D. 1969) – senior
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
Jonathan Pittman (J.D. 1990) – associate judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Sam C. Pointer Jr. (A.B. 1955) – attorney in
Birmingham , Alabama and a
United States district judge for
Northern Alabama , noted figure in complex
multidistrict
class-action litigation
Eli J. Richardson (J.D. 1992) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Jay Richardson (B.S. 1999) – U.S. Circuit Court Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (2018–present)
Kevin H. Sharp (J.D. 1993) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Eugene Edward Siler Jr. (B.A. 1958) – U.S. Circuit Court Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
Jane Branstetter Stranch (J.D. 1978) –
Order of the Coif ,
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Sarah Hicks Stewart (J.D. 1992) – associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama
Aleta Arthur Trauger (M.A. 1972) –
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Emory Marvin Underwood (B.A. 1900) –
senior United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Thomas A. Varlan (J.D. 1981) – Chief United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
Roger Vinson (J.D. 1971) – senior United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida , former member of the
United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
[328]
Harry W. Wellford (LL.B 1950) –
senior
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Samuel Cole Williams (LL.B 1884) – noted 19th and 20th century
Tennessee
jurist , historian, educator, and businessman
Billy Roy Wilson (J.D. 1965) –
senior United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. (B.A. 1952, J.D. 1954) – Senior Judge of the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Staci Michelle Yandle (J.D. 1987) – United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
Military
Spence M. Armstrong (transferred to
Navy ) –
United States Air Force
Lieutenant General ,
Defense and
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal ,
NASA Exceptional Service Medal recipient
Archibald Vincent Arnold (M.A.) –
United States Army
Major General ,
7th Infantry Division during
World War II ,
Army Distinguished Service Medal , former
military governor of Korea
[329]
Henry L. Brandon (J.D.) –
United States
Naval Aviator , Corsair Fighter-Bomber Squadron VBF-82
Kendall L. Card (B.E. 1977) – United States Navy
Vice Admiral , 64th
director of Naval Intelligence ,
[330]
Defense Superior Service Medal recipient
Michael Bruce Colegrove (D.Phil.) – former
colonel in the
U.S. Army Reserve , 5th president of the
Hargrave Military Academy
Don Flickinger (M.D. 1934) –
United States Air Force
Brigadier General ,
aerospace medicine pioneer; commander,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research ,
Distinguished Service Medal
Evelyn Greenblatt Howren – pioneering female aviator, first class of
Women Airforce Service Pilots in
World War II
Tramm Hudson (B.A. 1975) – United States Army
Lieutenant Colonel ,
3rd Infantry Division
Claiborne H. Kinnard Jr. (B.E. 1937) –
United States Army Air Force decorated World War II
fighter ace ,
355th Fighter Group ,
Distinguished Service Cross
William J. Livsey (M.S. 1964) – United States Army
Four-Star General , commander in chief of
United Nations Command ,
Defense and
Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient
John Mazach (B.A. 1966) – United States Navy
Vice Admiral , commander of the
Naval Air Force Atlantic
Barbara S. Pope (B.A. 1972) – United States
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
William Estel Potts (B.A. 1958) – United States Army
Major General ,
Army Distinguished Service Medal ,
22nd Chief of Ordnance for the
U.S. Army Ordnance Corps , U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame
Jack Reed (B.A. 1947) – United States Army,
Signal Intelligence Service during
World War II
William "Rip" Robertson –
United States Marine Corps Captain in the
Pacific Theater , World War II, Paramilitary Operations Officer for the
CIA 's
Special Activities Division ,
CIA Case Officer
Maritza Sáenz Ryan (J.D. 1988) – United States Army
Colonel , first female and Hispanic head of the department of law at the
United States Military Academy
Evander Shapard (LL.B 1917) –
Royal Air Force
World War I
flying ace ,
92 Squadron , six victories flying the
S.E.5a ,
British Distinguished Flying Cross
[331]
William Ruthven Smith – United States Army
Major General ,
Superintendent of the United States Military Academy ,
Distinguished Service Medal recipient
Nora W. Tyson (B.A. 1979) – United States Navy
Vice Admiral ,
Legion of Merit , first woman to lead a U.S. Navy ship fleet
[332]
Volney F. Warner (M.A. 1959) – United States Army
Four-Star General , Commander-in-Chief,
United States Readiness Command (1979–1981),
Defense Distinguished Service Medal recipient, coined the phrase "
boots on the ground "
[333]
Ministry and religion
Arto Antturi –
Finnish Lutheran priest, vicar for the parish of
Pitäjänmäki
T. C. Chao (M.A. 1916, B.D. 1917) – one of the leading Christian theological thinkers in China in the early twentieth century
[334]
James L. Crenshaw (Ph.D. 1964) – Robert L. Flowers Professor of the Old Testament at Duke University, leading scholar in Old Testament Wisdom literature,
Guggenheim Fellow
[335]
Jane Dixon (B.A., M.A.T.) –
Suffragan Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Washington , second female bishop of the
Episcopal Church
[336]
Musa Dube (Ph.D. 1997) –
Botswana
feminist theologian , 2011
Humboldt Prize winner
[337]
Robert W. Estill (D.Min. 1980) – 9th
bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
[338]
Robert W. Funk (Ph.D. 1953) – biblical scholar, founder of the
Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit
Westar Institute , Guggenheim Fellow,
Fulbright Scholar
William M. Greathouse –
minister and
emeritus
general superintendent in the
Church of the Nazarene
William J. Hadden (M.Div. 1946) – Episcopal university chaplain, U.S. Army chaplain, U.S. Navy chaplain; desegregationist, World War II's
V-12 Navy College Training Program at Vanderbilt
Charles Robert Hager (M.D. 1894) – Swiss-American missionary, founder of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong, baptized
Sun Yat-sen , first president of the
Republic of China
[339]
John Wesley Hardt – bishop of the
United Methodist Church , author, and biographer
[340]
William S. Hatcher (B.A. 1957, M.A. 1958) – mathematician,
philosopher ; served on several
National Spiritual Assemblies ; wrote several books on the
Baháʼí Faith after his 1957 conversion at Vanderbilt
Susan Bunton Haynes (M.Div. 1993) – 11th Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
William G. Johnsson (Ph.D.) –
Seventh-day Adventist author, former editor of the
Adventist Review
Yung Suk Kim (Ph.D. 2006) –
Korean-American
biblical scholar and author, editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation
[341] and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
[342]
Walter Russell Lambuth (M.D. 1877) – recipient of theology and medical degrees from Vanderbilt; Methodist
missionary to China, Japan and Africa; later bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
John H. Leith (M.A. 1946) –
Presbyterian theologian and ordained minister, authored at 18 books on Christianity
Tat-Siong Benny Liew (M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1997) – 1956 chair of New Testament studies at the
College of the Holy Cross
Robert McIntyre –
Scottish -born American Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mark A. Noll (Ph.D. 1975) – progressive evangelical scholar, historian at the University of Notre Dame
Carroll D. Osburn (D.Div. 1970) – scholar recognized as one of North America's leading
New Testament textual critics and a prominent
Christian egalitarian
Mitch Pacwa
SJ (Ph.D.) – bi-ritual American
Jesuit priest celebrating liturgy in both the
Roman and
Maronite rites, president and founder of Ignatius Productions, accomplished linguist
William Powlas Peery (M.A. 1959) – pastor of the
Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in Andhra Pradesh, India, significant figure in
South Indian Christianity in the 20th century
David Penchansky (Ph.D. 1988) – scholar of the
Hebrew Bible , literary critic to the
Old Testament , particularly its
Wisdom Literature
Brant J. Pitre (M.T.S. 1999) – New Testament scholar, distinguished research professor of scripture at the
Augustine Institute , Catholic
transubstantiation theorist
Clare Purcell (
B.D. 1916) – Methodist
bishop
Sidney Sanders (B.A. 1952) – 6th Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
Laurel C. Schneider (Ph.D. 1997) – professor of religious studies, religion and culture at the
Vanderbilt Divinity School
Timothy F. Sedgwick (M.A., Ph.D.) –
Episcopal
ethicist
[343]
Ken Stone (M.A. 1992, Ph.D. 1995) – author, chairman of the Reading, Theory and the Bible Section of the
Society of Biblical Literature ,
Lambda Literary Award winner
Thomas B. Warren (M.A., Ph.D.) – Restorationist philosopher and theologian
B. Michael Watson (D.M) – bishop of The United Methodist Church
Sharon D. Welch (Ph.D. 1982) – social ethicist and
author ; Affiliate Faculty,
Meadville Lombard Theological School ; former associate professor,
Harvard Divinity School
[344]
Walter Ziffer (B.E. 1954) – Czech-born
Holocaust survivor, theologian, scholar, and author
[345]
Science, mathematics, and engineering
Mary Jo Baedecker (B.S. 1964) –
geochemist , established the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program at the
United States Geological Survey ,
Department of the Interior Distinguished Service Award,
Meinzer Award
Edward Emerson Barnard (B.A. 1887) – astronomer who discovered
Barnard's star , Jupiter's fifth moon, nearly a dozen comets, and nebulous emissions in supernovae
James L Barnard (Ph.D. 1971) – South African engineer, pioneer of biological nutrient remover, a non-chemical means of
water treatment to remove
nitrogen and
phosphorus from used water
Laura P. Bautz (B.S. 1961) – astronomer who created the
Bautz–Morgan classification of
galaxy clusters ;
[346] professor,
Northwestern University ; director, astronomical science,
National Science Foundation
[347]
Bob Boniface (B.A. 1987) – automobile and industrial designer, director, Global
Buick exterior design, director,
Cadillac exterior design
Sylvia Bozeman (M.S. 1970) – mathematician whose research on
functional analysis and
image processing has been funded by the
Army Research Office ,
National Science Foundation , and
NASA
Kimberly Bryant (B.E. 1989) – biotechnologist for
Genentech , Novartis Vaccines,
Diagnostics , and
Merck , founder of
Black Girls Code
Charles R. Chappell (B.A. 1965) –
NASA
astronaut , former mission scientist for
Spacelab 1 , two-time
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal winner
[348]
Yvonne Clark (M.S. 1972) – pioneer for African-American and
women engineers , worked for
NASA ,
Westinghouse , and
Ford
Baratunde A. Cola (B.E 2002, M.S. 2004) – scientist and engineer specializing in
carbon nanotube technology,
Alan T. Waterman Award winner
Shirley Corriher (B.A. 1959) –
biochemist and author
William A. Davis Jr. (B.E. 1950) – engineer and distinguished leader in
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) for the
United States Army
John H. DeWitt Jr. (B.E. 1928) – pioneer in radio broadcasting,
radar astronomy and
photometry , observed the first successful
reception of radio echoes off the moon on January 10, 1946, as part of
Project Diana
[349]
[350]
Nathaniel Dean (Ph.D. 1987) – mathematician who has made contributions to abstract and algorithmic
graph theory , as well as
data visualization and
parallel computing
[351]
Harry George Drickamer – pioneer experimentalist in high-pressure studies of
condensed matter ,
[352] 1974
Irving Langmuir Award , 1989
National Medal of Science
Eric Eidsness (B.E. 1967) – engineer,
EPA administrator, wrote the
EPA 's first
environmental impact statement (EIS)
[353] established the
EPA 's water quality standards
[354]
[355]
Lawrence C. Evans (B.A. 1971) – noted mathematician in the field of
nonlinear partial differential equations , proved that solutions of concave, fully nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations are
C
2
,
α
{\displaystyle C^{2,\alpha }}
,
National Academy of Sciences
[356]
Jordan French (B.E. 2007) – engineer and 3D food printing pioneer, founding
CMO of BeeHex, Inc.
[357]
Fumiko Futamura (Ph.D. 2007) – mathematician known for her work on the
mathematics of perspective ,
[358] 2018
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award
Kenneth Galloway (B.A. 1962) – engineer researching solid-state devices, semiconductor technology, and radiation effects in electronics,
IEEE Fellow
Mai Gehrke (Postdoc) – Danish mathematician on the theory of
lattices at the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
[359]
Michael L. Gernhardt (B.S. 1978) –
NASA
astronaut and principal investigator of the
Prebreathe Reduction Program at the
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
[360]
G. Scott Hubbard (B.S. 1970) – former director of NASA's
Ames Research Center , chairman
SpaceX Safety Advisory Panel,
[361] restructured the Mars program in the wake of mission failures
[362]
Snehalata V. Huzurbazar (M.A. 1988) – statistician, known for her work in
statistical genetics , and applications of statistics to geology, Elected Fellow of the
American Statistical Association
Jedidah Isler –
astrophysicist , expert on
blazars (supermassive
black holes )
[363] and the
astrophysical jet streams emanating from them
[364]
Param Jaggi – inventor, invented Algae Mobile, a device that converts CO2 emitted from cars into oxygen, CEO of Hatch Technologies, founder and CEO of EcoViate,
Forbes 30 Under 30
[365]
Carl Jockusch (A&S 1959) – mathematician who proved (with
Robert I. Soare ) the
low basis theorem , with applications to
recursion theory and
reverse mathematics
[366]
Steven E. Jones (Ph.D. 1978) –
physicist , known for his long research on
muon-catalyzed fusion and geo-fusion
[367]
[368]
[369]
Michael Kearney (M.E. 2002) – youngest person in world history to attain a college degree, having done so at the age of ten;
[370] studied
computer science at Vanderbilt
Betty Klepper (B.A. 1958) –
USDA scientist at
Rhizotron , co-authored more than 200 scientific publications;
[371] first female editor,
Crop Science ; first female fellow,
SSSA ; first female president,
CSSA
Karen Kohanowich (B.S. 1982) – Undersea Technology Officer for the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research at the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ,
aquanaut on the
NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations
[372]
[373]
Duncan Leitch (B.S. 2006, Ph.D. 2013) –
neurobiologist who gained recognition for his work on the integumentary sensory organs in crocodilians
William R. Lucas (M.S., Ph.D.) – 4th director of the
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
[374]
Ashwin Mahesh (M.S. 1993) – Indian urbanist, journalist, politician and social technologist, climate scientist at
NASA
[375]
Dennis Mammana (M.S.) –
astronomy writer and sky photographer
Jennifer R. Mandel (Ph.D. 2008) – plant biologist researching plant population, quantitative genetics, evolutionary genetics, and phylogenetics
James Cullen Martin (M.S. 1952) – chemist, responsible for the hexafluorocumyl alcohol derived "Martin" bidentate ligand and a tridentate analog, co-invented the
Dess–Martin periodinane , creator of the Martin sulfurane
Emil Wolfgang Menzel Jr. (Ph.D. 1958) –
primatologist whose research laid the foundation for the contemporary understanding of communication and cognition in
chimpanzees
[376]
Ronald E. Mickens (Ph.D. 1968) – physicist specialized in
nonlinear dynamics and mathematical modeling with significant contributions to the theory of nonlinear oscillations
[377]
[378] and numerical analysis
[379]
James O. Mills (B.A. 1984) –
archaeologist known for his work in
paleopathology , excavations at
Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), the capital of
Upper Egypt in the late 4th millennium BC,
ancient Egypt 's
Protodynastic Period
Stanford Moore (B.A. 1935) –
protein chemist, inventor of a method for
sequencing proteins , winner of the 1972
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Craig Morris (B.A. 1961) –
archaeologist whose Inca expeditions created a modern understanding of the Inca civilization,
[380] chair of department of anthropology at the
American Museum of Natural History
[380]
Thiago David Olson (B.E. 2011) – electrical engineer and entrepreneur who created a homemade
nuclear fusion reactor at age 17,
[381] electrical engineer at the
U.S. Department of Defense , co-founder and CEO of Stratos Technologies, Inc.
Mendel L. Peterson (M.A. 1940) – pioneer of underwater archeology and former curator at the
Smithsonian Institution , known as "the father of underwater archeology;"
[382]
[383] namesake of
Peterson Island in
Antarctica
[384]
Dorothy J. Phillips (B.A. 1967) – pioneering African-American chemist known for work on
circular dichroism and bioseparation, director-at-Large of the
American Chemical Society
[385]
Polly Phipps (M.A.) –
social statistician , Senior Survey Methodologist at the US
Bureau of Labor Statistics
[386]
Philip Thomas Porter (B.A. 1952, M.A. 1953, Ph.D.) – electrical engineer and one of the guiding pioneers of the invention and development of early
cellular telephone networks
Joseph Melvin Reynolds (B.A. 1946) –
physicist , first observation of
Landau quantum oscillation in the
Hall effect , first detection of LQO in
Knight shift ,
NASA consultant, Guggenheim Fellow
[387]
George G. Robertson – senior researcher, Visualization and Interaction Research Group,
Microsoft Research
Amy Rosemond (Ph.D. 1993) –
aquatic ecosystem ecologist and
biogeochemist who advanced the understanding of how nutrients affect energy flow in detritus-based food webs,
[388]
[389]
Ecological Society of America Fellow
[390]
J. Robert Sims (B.S. 1963) –
chemical , mechanical engineer, former research engineer at
ExxonMobil , inventor, former president of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
[391]
Ruth Stokes (M.A. 1923) – mathematician,
cryptologist , and astronomer who made pioneering contributions to the theory of
linear programming ; founder of
Pi Mu Epsilon
[392]
John Ridley Stroop (B.S. 1924, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1933) – psychologist known for discovering the
Stroop effect , a psychological process related to word recognition, color and interference
James R. Thompson (B.S. 1960) – statistician known for biomathematically modeling HIV, AIDS, and cancer
[393]
Bruce J. Tromberg (B.A. 1979) –
photochemist and a leading researcher in the field of
biophotonics
Douglas Vakoch – astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, president of
METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
[394]
Davita Watkins (B.S. 2006) – chemist developing
supramolecular synthesis methods to make new
organic semiconducting materials for applications in
optoelectronic devices
[395]
Marsha Rhea Williams (Ph.D. 1982) – first
African-American woman to earn a computer science Ph.D.,
National Science Foundation fellow
[396]
Medicine
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (B.S. 1986) – Venezuelan
molecular biologist and an investigator of the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jean R. Anderson (M.D.) – internationally recognized
obstetrician and
gynaecologist , founder and first director of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital HIV Women's Health Program (1991)
[397]
Humphrey Bate (M.D. 1898) – physician and musician who served as a surgeon in the
Spanish–American War (1898)
Eugene Lindsay Bishop (M.D. 1914) – director of health and safety,
TVA , whose studies and control programs for
malaria earned him a
Lasker Award (1950)
[398]
Daniel Blain (M.D. 1929) – first medical director of the
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Ogden Bruton (M.D. 1933) – made significant advances in
immunology ,
[399]
[400] discovered Bruton-type agammaglobulinemia , namesake of
Bruton's tyrosine kinase
Thomas C. Butler (M.D. 1967) – scientist specializing in infectious diseases including
cholera and
bubonic plague , credited with making oral hydration the standard treatment for
diarrhea
[401]
David Charles (B.S. 1986, M.D. 1990) – neurologist, chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Neuroscience Institute,
[402] director of telemedicine at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
[403]
Alice Drew Chenoweth (M.D. 1932) – physician who specialized in
pediatrics and
public health , served as the chief of the Division of Health Services in the
United States Children's Bureau
Robert D. Collins (B.A. 1948, M.D. 1951) – physician and
pathologist who established the Lukes–Collins scheme for pathologic classification of
lymphoma
Judith A. Cooper (M.S. 1972) – former director of the
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Katherine Cullen (Ph.D. 1995) –
biologist whose work provided direct evidence that the larger three-dimensional structure of the
genome is related to its function
[404]
Juliet Daniel (Postdoc) – Canadian cancer
biologist , discovered and named the protein
ZBTB33 "Kaiso" at Vanderbilt in 1996
[405]
William H. Dobelle – biomedical researcher and artificial vision pioneer, nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003
Allan L. Drash (B.A. 1953) –
pediatric endocrinologist , former president of the
American Diabetes Association , one of the original describers of the
Denys–Drash syndrome
[406]
Wilton R. Earle (Ph.D. 1928) –
cell biologist known for his research in
cell culture techniques and
carcinogenesis
Arnold Eskin (B.S) – leader in the discovery of mechanisms underlying entrainment of circadian clocks, developed the
heuristic Eskinogram
Francis M. Fesmire (M.D. 1985) –
emergency physician and nationally recognized expert in
myocardial infarction
[407]
J. Donald M. Gass (B.A. 1950, M.D. 1957) – Canadian-American ophthalmologist, one of the world's leading specialists on diseases of the retina,
[408]
[409] first to describe many
macular diseases
[410]
Ernest William Goodpasture (B.A. 1908) –
pathologist who invented methods for growing viruses and rickettsiae in fertilized chicken eggs, enabling the development of
vaccination ,
[411] described
Goodpasture syndrome
[412]
Barney S. Graham (Ph.D. 1991) – chief, Viral Pathogenesis Lab,
Vaccine Research Center ; co-designed spike protein with
Moderna for the
COVID-19 vaccine
[413]
[414]
James Tayloe Gwathmey (M.D. 1899) – physician and pioneer of early anesthetic devices for medical use,
[415] hailed as the "Father of Modern Anesthesia"
[416]
Tinsley R. Harrison – physician and creator and editor of the first five editions of internal medicine textbook
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Tina Hartert (M.D., M.P.H) – Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine,
Vanderbilt University ; leader, Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS (HEROS) study,
National Institutes of Health
[417]
Richard Hatchett (B.A. 1989, M.D. 1995) – CEO of
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ,
[418]
Secretary of Health and Human Services Distinguished Service Award
[419]
Dorothy E. Johnson (B.S. 1942) – nursing theorist, created the Behavioral System Model, a founder of modern system-based
nursing theory
[420]
Robb Krumlauf (B.E. 1970) –
developmental biologist best known for his progression of the understanding of
Hox genes
[421]
Zenas Sanford Loftis (B.S. 1901) – physician, medical missionary to Tibet
Louis Lowenstein (B.A., M.D.) –
medical researcher who made significant contributions in
hematology and immunology
John Owsley Manier (B.A. 1907) – physician, accompanied the Vanderbilt hospital unit to
Fort McPherson in 1917
[422]
G. Patrick Maxwell (M.D.) –
plastic surgeon , first successful microsurgical transfer of the
latissimus muscle flap at Johns Hopkins University,
[423] advanced the design of tissue expanders
[424]
[425]
Hugh Jackson Morgan (B.A. 1914) – former chair the department of medicine at Vanderbilt, former president of the
American College of Physicians
Harold L. Moses (M.D. 1962) – Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, professor of cancer biology, medicine and pathology, and director emeritus at the
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , president of the
American Association for Cancer Research (1991)
Sharlene Newman (B.E. 1993) – pioneered use of
neuroimaging and
functional magnetic resonance imaging to study
language processing in the human brain
[426]
George C. Nichopoulos (M.D. 1959) – physician best known as
Elvis Presley 's personal physician
[427]
Jodi Nunnari (Ph.D.) – cell biologist and pioneer in the field of mitochondrial biology, editor-in-chief
The Journal of Cell Biology , president-elect of the
American Society for Cell Biology
Lacy Overby (B.A. 1941, M.S. 1945, Ph.D. 1951) – virologist known for his contributions to
Hepatitis B and
Hepatitis C research
[428]
[429]
William A. Pusey (B.A. 1885) – physician and past president of the
American Medical Association , expert in the study of
syphilis , authored the first history of
dermatology in English
Sanford Rosenthal (M.D. 1920) – pioneered
liver function tests ,
[430]
[431] discovered
rongalite as the
antidote for mercury poisoning ,
[432] discovered an antibiotic cure for
pneumococcal pneumonia ,
[433]
Public Health Service Meritorious Service Medal (1962)
Samuel Santoro (M.D./Ph.D. 1979) – pioneering researcher in the structure of integrin adhesive receptors for extracellular matrix proteins,
[434] chair of the department of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt
[435]
Robert Taylor Segraves (B.A. 1963, M.D. 1971) –
psychiatrist best known for his work on
sexual dysfunction and its
pharmacologic causes and treatments
Karen Seibert (Ph.D.) – pharmacological scientist, discoverer of
celecoxib , instrumental in the elaboration of the
COX-2 inflammatory pathway
[436]
Hrayr Shahinian – skull base surgeon and founder of the Skull Base Institute
Norman Shumway (M.D. 1949) – 67th president of the
American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform a successful
heart transplant in the United States
[437]
John Abner Snell (M.D. 1908) – missionary surgeon and hospital administrator in Suzhou (
Soochow ), China
Sophie Spitz (M.D. 1932) – pathologist who published the first case series of a special form of
benign
melanocytic nevi that have come to be known as
Spitz nevi
[438]
Mildred T. Stahlman (B.A. 1943, M.D. 1946) – professor of pediatrics and pathology at
Vanderbilt , started the first
newborn intensive care unit in the world,
[64] winner of the John Howland Award
Ghanshyam Swarup – Indian molecular biologist known for his studies on
glaucoma and the discovery of
protein tyrosine phosphatase ,
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar laureate
[439]
Carol Tamminga (M.D. 1971) –
psychiatrist and
neuroscientist focusing in schizophrenia, psychotic bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder, National Academy of Medicine fellow
Robert V. Tauxe (M.D.) – director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases
[440] of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
James C. Tsai (M.B.A. 1998) – president,
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai,
[441]
[442] system chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the
Mount Sinai Health System
Krystal Tsosie (MPH, Ph.D.) – geneticist and bioethicist known for promoting Indigenous data sovereignty and studying genetics within Indigenous communities
Rhonda Voskuhl (M.D.) – physician and
research scientist , Brain Research Institute (BRI) at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ,
principal investigator for treatment trials for
multiple sclerosis (MS)
[443]
Peter Walter (M.S. 1977) – German-American
molecular biologist and biochemist known for work on
unfolded protein response and the
signal recognition particle , 2014
Lasker Award , 2018
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winner
[444]
Levi Watkins (M.D. 1970) – heart surgeon and civil rights activist; first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient with
surgical technologist
Vivien Thomas
[445]
[446]
Logan Wright (Ph.D. 1964) –
pediatric psychologist , former president of the
American Psychological Association , coined the term "pediatric psychology"
Li Yang (Ph.D.) – biologist, senior investigator and head of the
tumor microenvironment section at the
National Cancer Institute
[447]
Lynn Zechiedrich (Ph.D. 1990) –
biochemist , developed novel approaches to characterize the topography of
DNA ,
[448]
National Academy of Inventors (2017)
Notable faculty and staff
Virginia Abernethy – professor emerita of psychiatry and
anthropology ; population expert;
immigration reduction advocate
Douglas Adams – distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering
Akram Aldroubi – professor of mathematics and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Sidney Altman – Canadian-American molecular biologist, former researcher in molecular biology at
Vanderbilt ,
[449] 1989
Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
[450]
Igor Ansoff – Russian-American
applied mathematician , known as the father of
strategic management
Celia Applegate – scholar, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Richard Arenstorf – mathematician, discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon (Arenstorf Orbit), which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon
[451]
Jeremy Atack – research professor emeritus of economics
Nils Aall Barricelli –
Norwegian -Italian mathematician whose early computer-assisted experiments in
symbiogenesis and
evolution are considered pioneering in
artificial life research
[452]
Larry Bartels –
political scientist , co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Shayne Chair in Public Policy and Social Science
Eugene Biel-Bienne – Austrian painter, former faculty of the department of fine arts in the
College of Arts and Science
Camilla Benbow – dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, scholar on education of
gifted youth
John Keith Benton (1896–1956) – dean of the
Vanderbilt University Divinity School , 1939–1956
Lauren Benton –, historian known for works on the history of empires, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and professor of law
[453]
Michael Bess – Chancellor's Professor of History, professor of European studies
David Blackbourn – British historian, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History
Alfred Blalock – professor of surgery; in the 1930s did pioneering research on
traumatic shock
[454]
Paolo Boffetta – Italian epidemiologist
John D. Boice Jr. – professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine whose discoveries "have been used to formulate public health measures to reduce population exposure to radiation and prevent radiation-associated diseases"
[455]
Eric Bond –, economist, Joe L. Roby Professor of Economics
William James Booth – professor of political science, professor of philosophy
Constance Bumgarner Gee – art policy scholar, memoirist
George Arthur Buttrick – Christian scholar
Brandon R. Byrd – scholar of African American history
William Caferro – Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History,
[456]
[457]
[458]
[459] 2010
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
[460]
John Tyler Caldwell (1911–1991) – professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, 1939–1947; chancellor of
North Carolina State University , 1959–1975
Joy H. Calico – Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology at the
Blair School of Music ,
[461]
[462]
Berlin Prize Winner (2005)
Kenneth C. Catania ,
neurobiologist – Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences, MacArthur Fellow (2006)
Jay Clayton –
literary critic , William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy
Jeff Coffin –
Grammy Award -winning saxophonist, member of
Dave Matthews Band and
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones , faculty of the Blair School of Music
Stanley Cohen –
biochemist , discoverer of cellular
growth factors , winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Alain Connes – mathematician,
Fields Medal Winner (1982)
James C. Conwell – mechanical engineer, president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Bruce Cooil – Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University in the
Owen Graduate School of Management
Tim Corbin – head coach, Vanderbilt Commodores Men's Baseball (2003–present), led Commodores to 2014 National Championship
Margaret Cuninggim – dean of women, 1966–1973; namesake of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center on campus
Walter Clyde Curry – academic, medievalist and poet, member of
Fugitives , joined the English department in 1915, chair of the English department (1941–1955)
J. Dewey Daane – economist and the Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, emeritus and senior advisor, Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University,
[463]
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
[464]
Richard L. Daft – sociologist
Larry Dalton – chemist best known for his work in polymeric
nonlinear electro-optics ;
[465] introduced the concept of "saturation transfer spectroscopy" while at Vanderbilt
Kate Daniels – poet
Donald Davie , British
Movement poet and literary critic, author of
Purity of Diction in English Verse , Vanderbilt professor (1978–1988)
Colin Dayan – Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities
Max Delbrück – pioneering
molecular biologist , winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arthur Demarest – Ingram Professor of Anthropology, Mesoamerican scholar
Collins Denny (1854–1943) – professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt until 1911; taught
John Crowe Ransom ; tried to "impose theological control over the university" when he became bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
[466]
Jacob M. Dickinson – professor of law 1897–1899 while he was an attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad;
United States Secretary of War , 1909–1911
[467]
Tom Dillehay –
anthropologist , Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture
[468]
Tony Earley – novelist
Jesse Ehrenfeld – professor of anesthesiology, surgery, biomedical informatics, and health policy, chair-elect of the American Medical Association, leading researcher in the field of
biomedical informatics
Mark Ellingham – professor of mathematics, discoverer and namesake of the
Ellingham–Horton graphs , two
cubic
3-vertex-connected
bipartite graphs that have no
Hamiltonian cycle
[469]
James W. Ely Jr. – Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law emeritus and professor of history emeritus, recipient of the
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize
Leonard Feldman – physicist, named
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to semiconductor-dielectric interfaces for MOS technologies
[470]
Charlotte Froese Fischer –
chemist and mathematician responsible for the development of the
multi-configurational self-consistent field of
computational chemistry
Edward F. Fischer – professor of anthropology
Daniel M. Fleetwood – Olin H. Landreth Chair of the Electrical Engineering, co-invented a memory chip based on mobile protons, one of the top 250 most highly cited researchers in engineering,
[471]
Chess Grandmaster
Walter Lynwood Fleming – historian of the South and
Reconstruction , dean of the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences in 1923 and later director of the graduate school, supporter of the Southern Agrarians
Jim Foglesong – member of the
Country Music Hall of Fame
Hezekiah William Foote – co-founder and Vanderbilt trustee; Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi; great-grandfather of Civil War author
Shelby Foote
Harold Ford, Jr. – former U.S. Congressman, candidate for Senate
William Franke – academic and philosopher, professor of Comparative Literature
Marilyn Friedman – philosopher,
W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy
Bill Frist –
Majority Leader (2002–2007);
U.S. Senate (1995–2007); former
transplant surgeon
F. Drew Gaffney –
NASA astronaut,
Payload Specialist for the
STS-40 Space Life Sciences (SLS 1)
Space Shuttle mission, professor of medicine
Sidney Clarence Garrison (1885–1945) – 2nd president of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University), 1938–1945
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen –
Romanian American mathematician, statistician and economist, distinguished professor of economics, emeritus (1949–1976),
progenitor and a
paradigm founder in economics, his work was seminal in establishing
ecological economics
Sam B. Girgus – author, film and literature scholar
Ellen Goldring – education scholar
Ernest William Goodpasture – pioneering virologist; invented the method of growing
viruses in fertile chickens'
eggs
George J. Graham Jr. – political theorist who trained generations of political scientists at Vanderbilt,
Fulbright scholar,
Guggenheim Fellow
Alexander Little Page Green – Methodist minister; a founder of Vanderbilt; his portrait hangs in the Board of Trust lounge of Kirkland Hall on the Vanderbilt campus
Paul Greengard – visiting scholar, neuroscientist known for his work on molecular and cellular function of neurons, 2000
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
F. Peter Guengerich – professor of biochemistry and the director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology,
William C. Rose Award winner
Peter Guralnick – music critic and historian; author; screenwriter
Osamu Hayaishi – prominent Japanese biochemist,
[472] discovered
oxygenases in 1955
Carolyn Heinrich – economics professor and currently concurrently Sid Richardson Professor at University of Texas at Austin
Suzana Herculano-Houzel – Brazilian neuroscientist working in comparative
neuroanatomy ; invented method of counting of neurons of the brain,
[473] discovered the relation between the
cerebral cortex area and thickness and number of cortical folds
[474]
Nicholas Hobbs – provost (1967–1975); former president of the American Psychological Association
Elijah Embree Hoss – chair of ecclesiastical history, church polity and pastoral theology (1885–90); later a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Milton W. Humphreys –
Confederate sergeant during the
Civil War , first professor of Latin and Greek at Vanderbilt, president of the
American Philological Association (1882–1883)
Dawn Iacobucci – quantitative psychologist and marketing researcher, professor in marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management
Bill Ivey – director of the
National Endowment for the Arts during the
Clinton administration ; director of the Curb Center at Vanderbilt
Kevin Jackson – British writer,
broadcaster , filmmaker and
pataphysician , former professor of English, regular
BBC contributor,
Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts , Companion of the
Guild of St George
Mark Jarman – poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of
New Formalism
Carl H. Johnson – biologist, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences, professor of biological sciences, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics
Sir
Vaughan Jones – Stevenson Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Fields Medal winner (1990)
Bjarni Jónsson – Icelandic mathematician and
logician , emeritus
distinguished professor of
mathematics , namesake of
Jónsson algebras , ω-
Jónsson functions ,
Jónsson cardinals , and
Jónsson terms
Edward Southey Joynes – first professor of modern languages at Vanderbilt
Peter Kolkay – associate professor of bassoon at the Blair School of Music,
[475] 2004
Avery Fisher Career Grant ,
[476] First Prize at the
Concert Artists Guild International Competition
[477]
John Lachs – philosopher and
pragmatist
Paul C. H. Lim – Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor, scholar on
Reformation and post-Reformation England
[478]
Lee Ann Liska – president of
Vanderbilt University Hospital (2023–present)
David Lubinski –
psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton – professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt (1875–1885)
Horace Harmon Lurton – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1909–1914), former dean of
Vanderbilt Law School
Ian Macara – British-American biologist researching the molecules that establish
Cell polarity in
Epithelium , both in normal cells and in cancer,
[479]
[480]
[481] currently the Louise B. McGavock Chair at Vanderbilt
[482]
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen – Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Thomas H. Malone (1834–1906) – Confederate veteran; judge; dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School for two decades
[483]
David Maraniss – biographer, columnist for the
Washington Post ; distinguished visiting professor of political science; his articles on President Bill Clinton won the
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993
Jesse W. Markham – economist best known for his work on antitrust policy, price theory and industrial organization, former chief economist to the Federal Trade Commission, associate professor (1948–1952)
Richard C. McCarty – professor of psychology and provost of Vanderbilt University
Ralph McKenzie – mathematician,
logician , and
abstract algebraist
[484]
Douglas G. McMahon – professor of biological sciences and pharmacology, known for discoveries in the fields of
chronobiology and vision
Jon Meacham – visiting distinguished professor of political science, former executive vice president of
Random House , and presidential biographer
Michael Menaker – former chair of the Pharmacology Department, influential researcher on
circadian rhythmicity of vertebrates
Glenn Allan Millikan – former head of the department of
physiology at the
School of Medicine , introduced
oximetry into physiology and clinical medicine, invented the first practical, portable
pulse oximeter
Jason H. Moore –
translational bioinformatics scientist, founding director of the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education at Vanderbilt (2000–2004)
Lorrie Moore – fiction writer,
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English
Gisela Mosig – German-American molecular biologist best known for her work with
enterobacteria phage T4 , among the first to recognize the importance of
recombination intermediates in establishing new
DNA replication forks
Velma McBride Murry – psychologist and sociologist
[485]
Roy Neel – campaign manager for
Howard Dean ; deputy chief of staff for Bill Clinton and chief of staff for Al Gore
Herman Clarence Nixon – professor, member of the Southern Agrarians
Thomas Nyfenger – principal flutist of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the
New York Chamber Symphony , former associate professor of flute at the Blair School of Music
Kelly Oliver – philosopher specializing in
feminism ,
political philosophy and ethics, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, founder of the feminist philosophy journal
philoSOPHIA
[486]
Aleksandr Olshansky –
Soviet and Russian mathematician working in
combinatorial and
geometric group theory , professor of mathematics,
Maltsev Prize laureate
[487]
Frank Lawrence Owsley – American historian
Sokrates Pantelides – university distinguished professor of physics and engineering, William and Nancy McMinn Professor of Physics
Lyman Ray Patterson – influential
copyright scholar and
historian , former Vanderbilt University Law School professor, served as an assistant
United States Attorney while teaching at Vanderbilt
Bruce Ryburn Payne (1874–1937) – founding president of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University), 1911–1937
Michael D. Plummer – retired professor of
mathematics , known for his contributions to graph theory
Ambra A. Pozzi – professor of
nephrology working on matrix biology and matrix receptor biology
Michael Alec Rose – composer, author, and professor of music composition at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music
Edward B. Saff – mathematician, specializing in
complex analysis ,
approximation theory ,
numerical analysis , and
potential theory , Guggenheim Fellow
Herbert Charles Sanborn (1873–1967) – chair of the department of philosophy and psychology at Vanderbilt University 1921–1942
Samuel Santoro – Dorothy B. and Theodore R. Austin Professor and chair at Vanderbilt University, microbiologist and immunologist researching structure and biology of integrin adhesive receptors for extracellular matrix proteins
[434]
[488]
Mark Sapir – Russian-American mathematician working in geometric group theory,
semigroup theory and combinatorial algebra, Centennial Professor of Mathematics
Charles Madison Sarratt (1888–1978) – chair of the department of mathematics at Vanderbilt University, 1924–1946; dean of students, 1939–1945; vice-chancellor, 1946–1958; dean of alumni, 1958–1978
Douglas C. Schmidt , computer scientist
Ronald D. Schrimpf , electrical engineer and scientist, Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, director of the
Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt
Thomas Alan Schwartz – historian of American foreign relations, former president of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Julia Sears – mathematician, pioneering feminist
Margaret Rhea Seddon – astronaut
Choon-Leong Seow –
Singaporean biblical scholar, semitist, epigrapher, and historian of Near Eastern religion, currently as Vanderbilt, Buffington, Cupples Chair in Divinity and distinguished professor of Hebrew Bible
Carl Keenan Seyfert – astronomer, known for research on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies named
Seyfert galaxies , first director of Vanderbilt's
Dyer Observatory
Albert Micajah Shipp – professor of exegetical theology at Vanderbilt University in 1875; dean of the Divinity School, 1882–1887
Steve Simpson – research professor of mathematics, known for reverse mathematics
Ganesh Sitaraman – legal scholar, professor of law, adviser to
Elizabeth Warren , senior fellow of the
Center for American Progress
Francis G. Slack – professor of physics and head of the department of physics (appointed 1939), instrumental in the discovery of
nuclear fission
[489]
William Oscar Smith – jazz double bassist; founder of the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville; former professor at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music
Larry Soderquist – professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School (1981–2005), director at Corporate and Securities Law Institute
Ronald Spores – archaeologist, ethnohistorian and Mesoamerican scholar
Hans Stoll – his research revolutionized the field of financial
derivatives and
market microstructure
Thomas Osgood Summers – Methodist theologian; dean of the Biblical Department at Vanderbilt in 1878
Earl Sutherland ,
physiologist ; discoverer of hormonal
second messengers ; winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Carol Miller Swain – professor of Political Science and Law
Kent Syverud – former Garner Anthony Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School, expert on complex litigation,
insurance law , and
civil procedure
Janos Sztipanovits – computer scientist, led the research group that created a novel area in computer engineering called Model Integrated Computing (MIC)
[490]
Robert B. Talisse – philosopher and political theorist, former editor of
Public Affairs Quarterly
Dean S. Tarbell – former distinguished professor of chemistry known for his development of detection methods of
chemical warfare agents during World War II, and his discovery of mixed
carboxylic -
carbonic
anhydrides
Vivian Thomas – surgical technician working with Alfred Blalock; developed techniques that enabled key advances in the treatment of traumatic shock
Wilbur Fisk Tillett (1854–1936) – professor of theology, dean of the Theological Faculty after 1884 and vice-chancellor after 1886
Norman Tolk – physicist
Jada Benn Torres – Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Genetic Anthropology and Biocultural Studies
Barbara Tsakirgis – classical archaeologist with specialization in Greek and
Roman archaeology
Kalman Varga – Hungarian-American physicist, Fellow of the
American Physical Society
[491]
[492]
[493]
William J. Vaughn (1834–1912) – professor of mathematics; librarian
Jerzy Vetulani – Polish
neuroscientist ,
pharmacologist and biochemist, former research professor, discovered β-downregulation by chronic administration of antidepressants
W. Kip Viscusi – economist, university distinguished professor of law, economics, and management at Vanderbilt University Law School
John Donald Wade – member of English faculty, contributed to Southern Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand
Taylor Wang – first
Taiwanese person of
Han Chinese ancestry to go into space, employee of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,
payload specialist on the
Space Shuttle Challenger mission
STS-51-B
John Wikswo – biological physicist, Gordon A. Cain University Professor, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, A.B. Learned Professor in Living State Physics
Consuelo H. Wilkins – physician, researcher, academic and administrator, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Arthur Frank Witulski – research associate professor electrical engineering and computer science,
[494] engineer at the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt
David Wood – British philosopher
Daoxing Xia – Chinese American mathematician, currently a professor in the department of mathematics, elected an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Science in 1980
Christopher Yoo – professor at Vanderbilt University Law School (1999–2007), former director of Vanderbilt's Technology and Entertainment Law Program, among the most frequently cited scholars of technology law, media law and copyright
[495]
Guoliang Yu – Chinese American mathematician best known for his fundamental contributions to the
Novikov conjecture on homotopy invariants of higher signatures,
[496]
[497] professor of mathematics (2000–2012)
Serge Aleksandrovich Zenkovsky – Russian historian, specialized in economic history in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Guggenheim Fellow
Mel Ziegler – artist specialized in
community art , integrated arts,
public art , current chair of the Department of Art
[498]
Gallery of Vanderbilt notables
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