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This is a list of notable Virginia Tech alumni.
Military
Virginia Tech and its
Corps of Cadets have a long tradition of providing service to the military. Seven
Medal of Honor recipients are alumni or former cadets at Virginia Tech.
LTG
William G. Boykin , US Army (Class of 1971) – Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; commanding general,
John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School ; commanding general,
1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) ; commander,
1st SFOD-D
VADM
Jody A. Breckenridge ,
USCG (Class of 1975) – Commander Coast Guard Pacific Area
RADM
J. Scott Burhoe , USCG (Class of 1976) – 39th Superintendent of the
U.S. Coast Guard Academy ; 10th president of
Fork Union Military Academy
GEN
Carlton D. Everhart II , USAF (Class of 1983) – commander,
Air Mobility Command
2LT
Robert E. Femoyer ,
USAAF (Class of 1944) – awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army Air Force
B-17 Flying Fortress navigator on a bombing mission over Germany
COL
Julien E. Gaujot ,
US Army (Class of 1893) – awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on the
Mexican border in 1914, the only soldier ever awarded the Medal for actions of a peacekeeping nature; brother of Antoine Gaujot (did not graduate)
LTC
Antoine A.M. Gaujot , US Army (Class of 1900) – awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army
Corporal at the Battle of San Mateo during the
Philippine–American War ; brother of Julien Gaujot (did not graduate)
SGT
Earle D. Gregory , US Army (Class of 1923) – awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the
Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I; known as the "Sgt. York of Virginia"
Nidal Hasan , US Army (Class of 1997) – former MAJ and Army psychiatrist; convicted in the
2009 Fort Hood shooting , subsequently dishonorably discharged
[1]
LTG
Joseph R. Inge , US Army (Class of 1969) – deputy commander,
United States Northern Command ; vice commander, U.S. Element,
North American Aerospace Defense Command
1LT
Jimmie W. Monteith, Jr. , US Army (Class of 1944) – awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the
Normandy landings on
D-Day during World War II (did not graduate)
LTG
Lewis A. Pick , US Army (Class of 1914)
GEN
Thomas C. Richards , USAF (Class of 1956) – administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration ; deputy commander in chief,
U.S. European Command ; Commandant of cadets,
U.S. Air Force Academy
LTG
Wallace H. Robinson , USMC (Class of 1940) – 20th Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps; director of the
Defense Supply Agency
1LT
Richard Thomas Shea , US Army (Class of 1948) – awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the
Battle of Pork Chop Hill during the
Korean War (did not graduate)
GEN
Lance L. Smith , USAF (Class of 1969) – commander,
U.S. Joint Forces Command and
NATO
Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation and deputy commander,
U.S. Central Command
SGT
Herbert J. Thomas ,
USMC (Class of 1944) – awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on
Bougainville Island during World War II; member of Virginia Tech's Athletic Hall of Fame (did not graduate)
CPT
James F. Van Pelt Jr. , USAAF (Class of 1940) –
B-29 Superfortress navigator involved in both
atomic bomb attacks against Japan, navigating the instrument ship in the first attack against
Hiroshima , then navigating the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on
Nagasaki
MAJ
Lloyd W. Williams , USMC (Class of 1907) – attributed with one of the more famous quotes of World War I: "Retreat? Hell! We just got here!"
Academia
Belinda C. Anderson (Class of 1986, Ed.D.) – 11th president of
Virginia Union University
Markus Breitschmid (Class of 1994, M.S.) – internationally active Swiss architectural theoretician, historian, and author
Julian Ashby Burruss (Class of 1898) – first president of Normal and Industrial School for Women (now
James Madison University ); eighth president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Bill Dally (Class of 1979, BS) – American Computer scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford University
Thomas DiLorenzo – Austrian School economist and author; professor at Loyola University in Baltimore (Ph.D. in economics)
Edwin D. Harrison (1948 M.S.) – sixth president of the
Georgia Institute of Technology
Joel Heinen (1982 M.S.) - professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University
Paige Kassalen (Class of 2015, B.S.) – American
electrical engineer who was the only American, female engineer, and youngest member of the ground crew for the
Solar Impulse 2 project.
Robert C. Michelson (Class of 1973) – roboticist; progenitor of the field of
aerial robotics ; recipient of the 2001
Pirelli Award
Richard Mines (Class of 1983) environmental engineer; Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Mercer University
Enid Montague (2008, Ph.D.) – director of the Wellness and Health Enhancement Engineering Laboratory at
DePaul University
Robert Coleman Richardson (1958 BS; 1960 MS) – physicist at
Cornell University ; shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for the discovery of superfluidity in He-3
[2]
Mark Embree (Class of 1996) – Rhodes Scholar; professor of mathematics at
Virginia Tech ;Leader of the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) department at
Virginia Tech
[3]
Linwood H. Rose (1973) – fifth president of
James Madison University
Charles W. Steger (1969) – 15th president of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dianne Boardley Suber (1996, Ed.D.) – 10th president of
Saint Augustine’s University
William M. Clemons (Class of 1995 B.S.) – professor of biochemistry at
California Institute of Technology
Business and government
Phil Agcaoili (attended in 1989) – business leader and information security expert
Mohammad Alavi (Class of 2002) – game developer; known for
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare campaign level "
All Ghillied Up " and
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign level "
No Russian "
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. – Member of the
US House of Representatives from Virginia's 6th District (1945–1948), 26th
Attorney General of Virginia (1948–1957), 58th
Governor of Virginia (1958–1962), associate judge of the
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1962–1973)
Richard Baker (Class of 1998) – game designer
Steve Bannon (Class of 1976) – former executive chairman of
Breitbart News and
White House Chief Strategist for
U.S.President
Donald Trump
William K. Barlow (1958) – member of the
Virginia House of Delegates , representing the 64th District (1992–2011)
Brett Blanton – 12th
Architect of the Capitol
Andrew S. Boutros (2001) – attorney best known for prosecuting
Silk Road
[4]
Donaldson Brown (Class of 1902) – financial executive and corporate director with
DuPont and
General Motors
Jim Buckmaster – CEO of
Craigslist
Dave Calhoun – president and CEO of
Boeing former global head of Private Equity,
Blackstone Group ; former CEO and chairman of the board,
Nielsen Holdings
Charles J. Camarda (Class of 1983, Ph.D.) – astronaut on board the space shuttle Discovery for the STS-114 mission
Jess Cliffe – game designer; co-creator of
Counter-Strike
James Cook – senior vice president of
The U.S. Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF) and Delta Capital Management; co-founder of Aurora Russia Limited
[5]
Roger K. Crouch (1968 M.S.; 1971 Ph.D.) –
NASA
astronaut
Chet Culver – former governor of Iowa (2007–2011); former Iowa Secretary of State (1999–2007)
Joseph DeSimone (1990 Ph.D.) – co-founder and CEO of
Carbon
William Dodd (1895 B.S.; 1897 M.S.) – ambassador to Germany, 1933–1937, under President Roosevelt; subject of Erik Larson's book
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Frank Dunham, Jr. – lead lawyer for
Zacarias Moussaoui
Regina E. Dugan (1984 B.S., Class of 1985 M.S.) – former vice president of Engineering,
Facebook Inc.; former vice president of Advanced Technology and Projects at
Google also known as the "Moonshot" project; 19th Director of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – the first woman to lead the agency
James Dunsmuir (attended VAMC in 1874
[6] ) – British Columbia coal magnate and politician
Clifton C. Garvin (1943 B.S.; 1947 M.S.) – chairman and CEO of
Exxon Corp.
Kelly Gee (M.A.) – acting
secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2023–present)
[7]
Henry C. Groseclose – considered to be the father of the
Future Farmers of America organization
Deborah Hersman – chairman, U.S.
National Transportation Safety Board
Duff Holbrook – wildlife biologist and forester (
United States Forest Service ); reintroduced
wild turkeys to much of South Carolina
[8]
Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr. (Class of 1962) – justice,
Supreme Court of Virginia
Chris Kraft (Class of 1944) – NASA architect of Mission Control and its first flight director; author of Flight: My Life in Mission Control
Newton Lee (1984 B.S.; 1985 M.S.) –
Computer scientist ,
author ,
futurist , and chairman of the
California
Transhumanist Party .
[9]
[10]
Matt Lohr (Class of 1995) – delegate,
Virginia House of Delegates
Letitia Long (Class of 1982) – director of the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2010–2014); first woman in charge of a major U.S. intelligence agency
Lillian M. Lowery (Class of 2004) – superintendent, Maryland State Department of Education
Bashar Masri – Businessman, Billionaire
Tony McNulty – Minister for Police and Security in the
UK government
[11]
Mike Michalowicz (Class of 1993) – author of business books and former columnist for The Wall Street Journal ; MSNBC television personality. Co-captain of Virginia Tech Men's Lacrosse Team 1993.
Elsa Murano – 23rd president of
Texas A&M University ; former
Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
Ajay Nanavati , former head of
3M India and current chairman of
Syndicate Bank
Howard J. Osborn , former Director of Security at the
CIA
Robert B. Pamplin , Sr. (Class of 1933) – CEO of
Georgia Pacific Corp.
Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. (attended in the 1960s) – president and CEO of R.B. Pamplin Corporation
Jim Pyne (Class of 1993) – NFL football player, All-American, co-founder of
Wheels Up
Thomas M. Price (Class of 1938) – architect
[12]
Alan H. Shaw (Class of 1992) - President & CEO,
Norfolk Southern Railway
Frank Sturgis , born Frank Angelo Fiorini (attended in the 1940s) – convicted for the
Watergate burglaries that ultimately led to the resignation of US President
Richard M. Nixon ; served in the US Marines, Navy, and Army and as a
covert operative in Latin America
Linda Swartz Taglialatela – United States Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS
John H. Thompson (1973, B.S.; 1975 M.S.) – director of the
United States Census Bureau
Harrison Ruffin Tyler (Class of 1951) - chemical engineer and co-founder of ChemTreat, Inc.
Joseph F. Ware, Jr. – Department Manager of Engineering Flight Test for the
Lockheed U-2 and the
SR-71 Blackbird
Rob Wittman – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 1st District
Catherine Woteki (Class of 1971, M.S., Ph.D.) – Under Secretary for
USDA 's Research, Education, and Economics mission area, as well as the department's chief scientist
George Nolen (Class of 1978) – CEO,
Siemens USA from 2003 to 2009 and CEO, Filtration Group Corporation from 2017 to 2019
Caitlin Rivers (Class of 2015, PhD) – assistant professor at
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and senior scholar at the
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Literature
Movies and television
Music
Sports
Auto racing
Baseball
Basketball
Nickeil Alexander-Walker (attended) – point guard for the
Utah Jazz and cousin of
Oklahoma City Thunder player
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Jeff Allen (Class of 2011) – power forward/center for
Hapoel Be'er Sheva of the
Liga Leumit
Kerry Blackshear Jr. (born 1997), basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Allan Bristow (Class of 1974) – forward/guard for the
Philadelphia 76ers ,
San Antonio Spurs ,
Utah Jazz , and
Dallas Mavericks ; coach of the
Charlotte Hornets ; executive for the
New Orleans Hornets
[14]
[15]
Vernell "Bimbo" Coles (Class of 1990) – point guard with the
1988 U.S. Olympic Basketball team ,
Miami Heat ,
Golden State Warriors ,
Atlanta Hawks , Cleveland Cavaliers, and
Boston Celtics
[16]
Dell Curry (Class of 1986) – former shooting guard for the Utah Jazz,
Cleveland Cavaliers , Charlotte Hornets, and father of NBA star
Stephen Curry
[17]
Malcolm Delaney (Class of 2011) – guard for the
Atlanta Hawks for 2016–17 NBA season
Zabian Dowdell (Class of 2007) – point guard for
Enisey Krasnoyarsk of the
Russian Professional Basketball League and
Phoenix Suns
[18]
[19]
Erick Green (born 1991) - basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Jalen Hudson (born 1996) - basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Paul Long (Class of 1967) – guard for the
Detroit Pistons ,
Buffalo Braves , and
Kentucky Colonels
Justin Robinson (Class of 2019) – point guard for the
Delaware Blue Coats
[20]
Adam Smith (born 1992) - guard for
Hapoel Holon in the
Israel Basketball Premier League
Deron Washington (Class of 2008) – small forward/shooting guard for the
Barak Netanya of the
Israeli Basketball Super League ; selected 59th overall in the
2008 NBA draft
Cheerleading
Frank Beamer (Class of 1969) – head coach of the
Virginia Tech football team 1986 to 2015
Ken Barefoot (Class of 1968) – Tight End –
East West Shrine Bowl ,
Senior Bowl , 4th pick by the
Washington Redskins in the 1968
NFL Draft
Rashad Carmichael – cornerback for the
Houston Texans
Kam Chancellor – safety for the
Seattle Seahawks ;
Super Bowl XLVIII Champion
David Clowney – wide receiver for the
New York Jets
Carroll Dale (Class of 1964) – former wide receiver, All-American, played for
Vince Lombardi -era Green Bay Packers
André Davis – wide receiver for the
Houston Texans
Jim Druckenmiller (Class of 1996) – former quarterback for the
San Francisco 49ers and
Miami Dolphins ; 26th pick in the
1997 NFL Draft
Bill Ellenbogen – offensive lineman for the New York Giants
John Engelberger – former defensive end for the
Denver Broncos
Tremaine Edmunds – NFL Player for
Buffalo Bills
[21]
Terrell Edmunds – NFL Player for
Pittsburgh Steelers
[22]
Antone Exum (Class of 2014) – cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings
Michel Faulkner – All-American at Virginia Tech; played for
New York Jets in 1981–1982
Brandon Flowers – defensive back for the
San Diego Chargers ; selected by the
Kansas City Chiefs with the 35th overall pick in the
2008 NFL Draft
Antonio Freeman (Class of 1995) – former wide receiver for the
Green Bay Packers ; played in
Super Bowl XXXI ,
Super Bowl XXXII , and 1998 Pro Bowl
Kendall Fuller – cornerback of the Washington Football Team; 84th pick of the
2016 NFL Draft (did not graduate)
Kyle Fuller (Class of 2014) – cornerback for the Chicago Bears; 14th pick of the
2014 NFL Draft
Vincent Fuller – safety for the
Tennessee Titans ; 108th pick in the
2005 NFL Draft
Shayne Graham (Class of 2000) – NFL place-kicker
Jake Grove (Class of 2004) – center for the
Miami Dolphins , All-American 2nd round draft pick in
2004 NFL Draft
DeAngelo Hall (Class of 2005) – defensive back for the
Washington Redskins ;, 8th overall pick at the 2004 NFL Draft and played in consecutive Pro-Bowls in 2006–2007 (did not graduate)
Michael Hawkes – football player
Vaughn Hebron – running back/kick returner for the
Denver Broncos ; played in Super Bowl XXXII
Antonio Freeman ),
Super Bowl XXXIII ; two-time Pro Bowler
[23]
Jayron Hosley – cornerback for the
New York Giants
Mike Johnson – linebacker for the
Cleveland Browns ,
Detroit Lions and
Canadian Football League teams; All-Pro and Pro Bowl; voted one of the top 100 Browns in history.
Steve Johnson – tight end for the
New England Patriots
[24]
Kevin Jones – running back for the
Chicago Bears ; 1st Round, 30th overall pick at the 2004 NFL Draft
Jeff King – tight end for the
Carolina Panthers
Jonathan Lewis (Class of 2006) – defensive tackle for the
Jacksonville Jaguars ; selected with the 177th overall pick in the
2006 NFL Draft
Frank Loria – first Team All-American safety for VT (1967); first Team Academic All-American (1967); College Football Hall of Fame member (1999); was defensive backs coach for Marshall (age 23) when he and the team were killed in a plane crash (1970)
Josh Morgan – wide receiver for the
Chicago Bears ; had stints with the
San Francisco 49ers and the
Washington Redskins
Ken Oxendine – running back for the
Atlanta Falcons
Rick Razzano – linebacker for the
Cincinnati Bengals and
Toronto Argonauts
George Roberts – NFL punter
Aaron Rouse (Class of 2007) – safety for the New York Giants
Eddie Royal – current wide receiver for the
Chicago Bears ; drafted by the
Denver Broncos with the 42nd overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft
Damien Russell – defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers
Joey Slye – (Class of 2018) current Kicker for the
Carolina Panthers .
Bruce Smith (Class of 1985) – defensive linesman for the
Buffalo Bills and
Washington Redskins ; All-American and first overall pick at the
1985 NFL Draft ; 2009
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Don Strock – quarterback for
Miami Dolphins and
Cleveland Browns ; later a college head coach
Darryl Tapp – defensive end for the
Detroit Lions , selected by the
Seattle Seahawks with the 63rd overall pick at the 2006 NFL Draft
Tyrod Taylor (Class of 2011) – starting quarterback for the
Cleveland Browns ; Super Bowl XLVII Champion
Logan Thomas (Class of 2014) – quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, Tight End for the Washington Football Team
Michael Vick – quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, first overall pick at the
2001 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons (did not graduate)
[25]
Ernest Wilford – wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, selected with the 24th pick of the 4th round in the 2004 NFL Draft
Ryan Williams – running back for the
Arizona Cardinals
David Wilson (Class of 2012) – running back for the New York Giants; 1st Round pick at the
2012 NFL Draft (did not graduate)
Jason Worilds (Class of 2010) – outside linebacker for the
Pittsburgh Steelers , selected with 52nd overall pick in the
2010 NFL Draft
Golf
Softball
Track & field
Kristi Castlin (Class of 2010) – 2016 Rio Olympics, Bronze Medal 100M hurdles
[26]
Queen Harrison – three-time NCAA women's national champion in the 60 m, 100 m and 400 m hurdles; 2008 US Olympian in the 400 m hurdles; won the 2010 Bowerman, the "Heisman of Track and Field"
Marcel Lomnicky – 2009 NCAA men's national champion in the hammer throw
Wrestling
Other
See also
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