The University of Virginia is a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is a partial list of its notable alumni, faculty, board members, and rectors.
Alumni
Col stands for College of Arts and Sciences.
Academics and education
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
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|William Antholis
|1986
|Col
|Director of UVA's Miller Center; former managing director of Brookings; former White House and State Department staff
|
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|Donald J. Boudreaux
|1992
|Law
|Professor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
|
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|Claire-Marie Brisson
|2021
|Ph.D
|Preceptor in French, Harvard University
|
|-
|William Yancey Brown
|1969
|Col
|President of Bishop Museum, author and institutional leader
|
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|John T. Casteen III
|1965, 1970
|Col, graduate
|President of the University of Virginia
|
|-
|Edmund M. Clarke
|1967
|Col
|FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award
|
|-
|Anita H. Clayton
|1982
|Med
|Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
|
|-
|John R. Conniff
|
|Law
|President of Louisiana Tech University, 1926–1928
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|-
|Douglas Day
|1954
|BA; MA, PhD English
|Author, William Faulkner scholar, Clifton Waller Professor of English and Comparative Languages at UVa
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|-
|David Ellenson
|1973
|MA Religion
|President emeritus and chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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|-
|Jerry Falwell Jr.
|1986
|Law
|Chancellor and president, Liberty University
|
|-
|Gary L. Francione
|
|Law
|Professor at Rutgers University
|
|-
|Joanne B. Freeman
|1993, 1998
|MA, Ph.D
|Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University
|
|-
|Wade Hampton Frost
|1903
|Medicine
|Founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, established epidemiology as a science
|
|-
|Elizabeth Garrett
|1988
|Law
|President of Cornell University; former provost of the University of Southern California
|
|
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|J. Hartwell Harrison
|1932
|Medicine
|Professor, Harvard Medical School; donor surgeon–premier kidney transplant; Editor, Campbell’s Urology (4th ed., 1978)
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|Roger Harold Hull
|1974
|Law
|President of Beloit College and Union College
|
|-
|Charles W. Kent
|1882
|Col
|English professor at UVA
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|-
|Gloria Cordes Larson
|1976
|Law
|President of Bentley University
|
|-
|Helen Matthews Lewis
|1949
|Graduate
|Sociologist, historian, and activist
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|-
|Edgar Odell Lovett
|1895
|Graduate
|Mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured president of Rice University
|
|-
|Richard A. Lutz
|1971
|Col
|Professor at the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
|
|-
|M. Elizabeth Magill
|1995
|Law
|Dean of Stanford Law School
|
|-
|J. Hillis Miller Sr.
|1928
|Graduate
|President of the University of Florida (1947–1953)
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|-
|Blake Morant
|1975, 1978
|Col, Law
|Dean of George Washington University Law School
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|-
|Nick Morgan
|1977, 1981
|MA, PhD
|Assistant vice president and provost, University of Virginia; professor at Princeton University
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|-
|Edward P. Ney
|1946
|Ph.D
|Physicist and college professor who made major contributions to cosmic ray research and atmospheric physics
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|-
|Marvin Banks Perry Jr.
|1940
|Col
|President of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College
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|-
|Harrison Randolph
|1892
|Graduate
|President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945)
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|W. Taylor Reveley, III
|1968
|Law
|President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School
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|William Craig Rice
|1975
|Col
|President of Shimer College
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|-
|Larry Sabato
|1974
|Col
|Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
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|Alex Sanders
|1990
|Law
|President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001)
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|-
|Thomas A. Saunders III
|1967
|Darden
|Chairman of The Heritage Foundation
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|-
|Stuart Schreiber
|1977
|Col
|Chemical biologist; founding member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
|
|-
|Nicole Shelton
|1996, 1998
|M.A., Ph.D
|Professor of psychology at Princeton University
|
|-
|Brooks D. Simpson
|1979
|Col
|Professor of history at Arizona State University
|
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|Robert Sitkoff
|1996
|Graduate
|Professor at Harvard Law School
|
|-
|Valerie Smith
|1978, 1982
|Graduate
|President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University
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|William G. Thomas III
|1991, 1995
|M.A., Ph.D
|History professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow
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|Richard E. Wagner
|1966
|Ph.D
|Professor emeritus of economics at George Mason University
|
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|John C. White
|1998
|Col
|Louisiana superintendent of Education
|
|-
|William Wulf
|1966
|Graduate
|President of the National Academy of Engineering, designer of BLISS programming language
|
|}
Art and architecture
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
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|Robert Llewellyn
|1968
|Engineering Science
|Photographer
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|Georgia O'Keeffe
|
|Non-degreed
|Painter
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|-
|Nelson Saiers
|1997, 1998
|Col, graduate
|Artist and hedge fund manager
|
|}
Business
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Lee Ainslie
|1986
|Col
|Founder and managing partner of Maverick Capital
|
|-
|Eric C. Anderson
|1996
|Engineering
|President and CEO, co-founder, Space Adventures
|
|-
|David T. Beers
|1975
|Col
|Special adviser to the governor of the Bank of Canada, former head of sovereign credit ratings, Standard & Poor's
|
|-
|Alfred Berkeley
|1966
|Col
|President, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
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|-
|John H. Bryan
|1960
|Darden
|CEO and chairman of Sara Lee
|
|-
|Jonathan Bryan
|1896
|
|President Richmond-Ashland Railway Company and Bryan, Kemp & Co. brokerage
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|-
|Algernon S. Buford
|1850
|Law
|President, Richmond and Danville Railroad
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|-
|W. Graham Claytor Jr.
|1933
|Col
|President, Southern Railway and Amtrak; and U.S. Secretary of the Navy
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|George David
|1967
|Darden
|Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation
|
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|William A. Hawkins
|1982
|Darden
|CEO, Medtronic Corp.
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|-
|Steve Huffman
|2005
|Engineering
|Co-founder of Reddit
|
|-
|Bob Hugin
|1985
|Darden
|Chair of Celgene
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|-
|Mansoor Ijaz
|1983
|Col
|Founder and chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd
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|-
|Paul Tudor Jones
|1976
|Col
|President and founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and Robin Hood Foundation
|
|-
|Stephen P. Joyce
|1982
|Comm
|President and CEO of Choice Hotels; CEO of Dine Brands Global
|
|-
|Randal J. Kirk
|1979
|Law
|Founder and chairman, New River Pharmaceutical
|
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|Alan Lafley
|
|Non-degreed
|CEO, chairman of the board, Procter & Gamble
|
|-
|Meredith Kopit Levien
|1993
|Col
|President and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company
|
|-
|Alexander F. Mathews
|1856
|Graduate
|President and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
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|Halsey Minor
|1987
|Col
|Co-founder and former CEO, CNET Inc.
|
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|Daniel Mudd
|1980
|Col
|CEO, Fannie Mae
|
|-
|Tammy Murphy
|1987
|Col
|Analyst, associate, and project lead at Goldman Sachs
|
|-
|Michelle Nunn
|1989
|Col
|CEO, Points of Light; president of Care International USA
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|-
|Alexis Ohanian
|2005
|Comm
|Co-founder of Reddit
|
|-
|William Nelson Page
|
|Non-degreed
|Co-founder of the Virginian Railway
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|-
|Charlie Papazian
|1972
|BS Nuclear Engineering
|Founder of the Association of Brewers and the Great American Beer Festival
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|-
|Steven Reinemund
|1978
|Darden
|Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
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|-
|Mendel Rosenblum
|1984
|Col
|Co-founder of VMware
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|Julio Mario Santo Domingo
|1948
|Col
|Colombian businessman, billionaire
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|Sheridan Snyder
|1958
|Col
|Entrepreneur and philanthropist
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|Samuel Spencer
|1868
|Engineering
|President, Southern Railway
|
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|Mark B. Templeton
|1978
|Darden
|President and CEO, Citrix Systems
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|Jaffray Woodriff
|1991
|Comm
|CEO and co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM)
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|Robert R. Young
|
|Non-degreed
|Chairman of the board, C&O Railroad
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|}
Entertainment
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thumb|right|100px|[[Margaret Brennan]]
thumb|right|100px|[[Katie Couric]]
thumb|right|100px|[[Laura Ingraham]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Robert Aldrich
|
|Non-degreed
|Film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen
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|-
|Will Anderson
|2008
|Col
|Lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute
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|Krystal Ball
|2003
|Col
|Anchor on MSNBC's The Cycle
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|-
|David Berman
|1989
|Col
|Lead singer of indie-rock band Silver Jews
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|-
|John Brenkus
|1993
|Col
|Host, ESPN's Sports Science
|
|-
|Margaret Brennan
|2002
|Col
|Bloomberg TV anchor, In Business with Margaret Brennan
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|-
|Edward Brophy
|
|Col
|Actor
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|-
|Coran Capshaw
|1983
|Col
|Founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys
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|-
|Tom Cora
|
|Col
|Avant-garde cellist and composer
|
|-
|Katie Couric
|1979
|Col
|Anchor of CBS Evening News; former host of NBC's Today Show
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|-
|John Dickerson
|1991
|Col
|Anchor of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson
|
|-
|Deidre Downs
|
|Non-degreed
|Miss America 2005
|
|-
|Kimberly Dozier
|1993
|Graduate
|Reporter for CBS News
|
|-
|Sarah Drew
|2002
|Col
|Actress, Grey's Anatomy
|
|-
|Tina Fey
|1992
|Col
|Creator, writer, producer and actress, 30 Rock; former head writer, actress, Saturday Night Live
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|-
|Schuyler Fisk
|2004
|Col
|Singer/songwriter
|
|-
|Bob Gazzale
|1987
|Col
|President, American Film Institute
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|-
|Jason George
|1994
|Col
|Actor
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|-
|Brennan Gilmore
|2001
|Col
|Bluegrass musician
|
|-
|Richard Glatzer
|1975
|Graduate
|Film director, producer, writer, Still Alice, The Fluffer, and Quinceañera
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|-
|Ann Hould-Ward
|1978
|Graduate
|Broadway costume designer, Tony Award recipient
|
|-
|Brit Hume
|1965
|Col
|Managing editor, Fox News
|
|-
|Laura Ingraham
|1991
|Law
|Conservative talk show host
|
|-
|Mark Johnson
|1971
|Col
|Film producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia; Academy Award recipient
|
|-
|Jen Lilley
|2007
|Col
|Actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Artist
|
|-
|Jessica Lynch
|2000
|Col
|Miss New York 2003
|
|-
|Rod MacDonald
|1970
|Col
|Singer/songwriter
|
|-
|Stephen Malkmus
|1988
|Col
|Lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement
|
|-
|Tyler Mathisen
|1976
|Col
|Co-anchor, Power Lunch; vice president for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC
|
|-
|Benjamin McKenzie
|2001
|Col
|Actor, Fox's The O.C.
|
|-
|PES
|1995
|Col
|Director, filmmaker, director of Oscar-nominated short film Fresh Guacamole
|
|-
|Ed Romanoff
|
|BA Communication
|Singer-songwriter
|
|-
|Andrew Scheinman
|1973
|Law
|TV producer, Seinfeld; Emmy Award recipient
|
|-
|Teddy Sears
|1999
|Col
|Actor, Masters of Sex
|
|-
|Tom Shadyac
|1981
|Col
|Director, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty
|
|-
|Melissa Stark
|1995
|Col
|Reporter, ESPN and ABC's Monday Night Football
|
|-
|Skipp Sudduth
|1983
|Graduate
|actor
|
|-
|Sean Patrick Thomas
|1993
|Col
|Actor
|
|-
|Boyd Tinsley
|
|
|Violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave Matthews Band
|
|-
|Dylan Walsh
|1986
|Col
|Actor, Nip/Tuck
|
|-
|Whitney Wegman-Wood
|
|MFA
|Actress, Kung Fu Ghost; screenwriter, The Last Butterflies
|
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|Stan Winston
|1968
|Col
|Special effects expert, four-time Academy Award recipient
|
|-
|Paul Junger Witt
|1963
|Col
|Emmy Award recipient; producer, Dead Poets Society; TV producer, The Golden Girls, The Partridge Family, Soap, Benson, and Blossom
|
|-
|Vern Yip
|1990
|Col
|Interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality
|
|-
|Sasheer Zamata
|2006
|Col
|Actor, Saturday Night Live
|
|}
Government
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Danny Avula
|
|Col
|Richmond-Henrico Health District commissioner; commissioner of Social Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia; mayor of Richmond, Virginia
|
|-
|Gina Bennett
|
|
|Central Intelligence Agency terrorism senior targeting analyst and senior advisor for the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning at the National Counterterrorism Center
|
|-
|James Laurence Cabell
|1833
|
|President of National Board of Health
|
|-
|Mortimer Caplin
|1940
|Law
|Internal Revenue Service commissioner
|
|-
|James W. Carroll
|1985
|Col
|Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
|
|-
|Paul Ilyinsky
|1953
|Col
|Three-term mayor of Palm Beach, Florida; descendant of Russian royalty
|
|-
|Robert Mueller
|1974
|Law
|Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
|
|-
|Paul Craig Roberts
|
|Ph.D.
|Undersecretary of the Treasury
|
|-
|Thomas A. Scully
|1979
|Col
|Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
|
|-
|William A. Welch
|1886
|Graduate
|General manager of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission
|
|-
|Walter Wyatt
|1917
|Law
|General counsel, Federal Reserve System
|
|}
Law
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Nathan L. Bachman
|1903
|Law
|Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court; U.S. senator, Tennessee
|
|-
|Daniel E. Burrows
|2003
|Col
|Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice; Chief Deputy Attorney General of Kansas
|
|-
|Millard F. Caldwell
|1924
|Law
|State supreme court justice, Florida; governor, U.S. congressman
|
|-
|Ken Cuccinelli
|1990
|BS Mechanical Engineering
|Attorney general of Virginia
|
|-
|Collins Denny Jr.
|1924
|Law
|Pro-segregationist lawyer in Virginia
|
|-
|Thomas Watt Gregory
|1884
|Law
|Attorney general of the United States
|
|-
|Mark Herring
|1986
|Graduate
|Attorney general of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia
|
|-
|Howell Edmunds Jackson
|1854
|Graduate
|Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. senator of Tennessee
|
|-
|Robert F. Kennedy
|1951
|Law
|U.S. senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. attorney general
|
|-
|Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
|1982
|Law
|Chief prosecuting attorney, Riverkeeper; chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance; co-host of Ring of Fire, 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
|
|-
|Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.
|1988
|Law
|Missouri Supreme Court justice
|
|-
|James Clark McReynolds
|1884
|Law
|Justice, United States Supreme Court
|
|-
|Andy Oldham
|2001
|Col
|Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
|
|-
|Ken Paxton
|1991
|Law
|Attorney general of Texas
|
|-
|Thomas Davis Ranson
|1868
|Law
|Virginian lawyer and businessperson, veteran captain of the Confederate States Army serving under Gen. Stonewall Jackson
|
|-
|Stanley Forman Reed
|1908
|Law
|Justice, United States Supreme Court; United States Solicitor General
|
|-
|Chuck Rosenberg
|1990
|Law
|United States attorney, Eastern District of Virginia and Southern District of Texas; former counsel to the FBI director; counselor to the US attorney general
|
|-
|Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow
|1835
|Law
|Missouri attorney general and Border Ruffian
|
|-
|William M. Walton
|1851
|Law
|Attorney general of Texas
|
|-
|Sheldon Whitehouse
|1982
|Law
|Attorney general of Rhode Island, United States senator from Rhode Island
|
|}
Literature and journalism
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Corban Addison
|2004
|Law
|Author of A Walk Across the Sun
|
|-
|Susanne Antonetta
|1989
|MFA
|Poet and author
|
|-
|Taylor Antrim
|2004
|MFA
|Novelist
|
|-
|Amy Argetsinger
|1990
|Col
|Writer and editor at the Washington Post
|
|-
|Louis Auchincloss
|1941
|Law
|Novelist, lawyer, National Book Award for Fiction finalist
|
|-
|David Baldacci
|1986
|Law
|Novelist, Memory Man, The Camel Club, Total Control
|
|-
|Fred Barnes
|1965
|Col
|Editor, The Weekly Standard
|
|-
|Sandra Beasley
|2002
|Col
|Poet and writer, 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize
|
|-
|Jamelle Bouie
|2009
|Col
|Columnist for the New York Times, Forbes 30 under 30 2015
|
|-
|Paul Bowles
|
|Non-degreed
|Novelist, travel writer, composer, author of The Sheltering Sky, Up Above the World
|
|-
|Michael P. Branch
|
|MA, Ph.D
|Ecocritic, writer, and activist
|
|-
|William Cabell Bruce
|1880
|Col
|1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography
|
|-
|Oni Buchanan
|1997
|Col
|Poet, National Poetry Series winner 2007
|
|-
|Erskine Caldwell
|
|Non-degreed
|Novelist, author of Tobacco Road
|
|-
|Virginius Dabney
|
|Col
|Editor of Richmond Times Dispatch, author, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|-
|Kyle Dargan
|2002
|Col
|Poet, 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
|
|-
|Laura Dave
|2003
|MFA
|Novelist, The Last Thing He Told Me
|
|-
|Philip F. Deaver
|1978
|Graduate
|Writer and poet
|
|-
|Lane DeGregor
|1989, 1995
|Col, graduate
|Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
|
|-
|Heather Derr-Smith
|1995
|Col
|Poet
|
|-
|Tyler Drumheller
|1974
|Col
|Pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author of On the Brink
|
|-
|Emma Copley Eisenberg
|2014
|MFA
|Author of The Third Rainbow Girl
|
|-
|Claudia Emerson
|1979
|Col
|2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, 2008 Poet Laureate of Virginia
|
|-
|Linda Fairstein
|1972
|Law
|Prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan; best-selling author of crime novels
|
|-
|Richard Foerster
|1972
|Col
|Poet
|
|-
|Thomas Frank
|1987
|Col
|Founder and editor, The Baffler
|
|-
|William Fuller
|1983
|Ph.D.
|Poet; senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation
|
|-
|Ted Genoways
|1999
|MFA
|Writer, journalist, author
|
|-
|Emily Giffin
|1997
|Law
|Author
|
|-
|W. Douglas Gordon
|1898
|Law
|Editor, Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch
|
|-
|David M. Granger
|1981
|Graduate
|Editor-in-chief of Esquire
|
|-
|Julien Green
|1922
|Col
|Major figure of French literature of the 20th century
|
|-
|Chad Harbach
|2004
|MFA
|Novelist, author of The Art of Fielding
|
|-
|Vashti Harrison
|2010
|Col
|Children's book writer, illustrator, filmmaker, and illustrator of Sulwe
|
|-
|Bernard Holland
|
|Col
|Former chief music critic for The New York Times
|
|-
|Philip K. Howard
|1974
|Law
|Writer, author of Life without Lawyers
|
|-
|Edward P. Jones
|1981
|Graduate
|Author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow
|
|-
|Mary Beth Keane
|2005
|MFA
|Novelist
|
|-
|Jack T. Kirby
|
|MA, Ph.D
|Historian of the Southern United States, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song
|
|-
|Melissa Kirsch
|1996
|Col
|Author, assistant editor, culture and lifestyle at New York Times
|
|-
|Christina Baker Kline
|1990
|MFA
|Novelist
|
|-
|Jeb Livingood
|2000
|MFA
|Poet
|
|-
|Emma Lord
|2012
|Col
|Author
|
|-
|Rich Lowry
|1990
|Col
|Editor-in-chief, National Review
|
|-
|Erika Meitner
|
|MFA, MA
|Poet, National Book Award Ffinalist 2018 for poetry
|
|-
|Daniel Mendelsohn
|1982
|Col
|Writer and columnist, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, professor at Bard College
|
|-
|Lulu Miller
|2013
|MFA
|Writer and Peabody Award-winning science reporter for NPR
|
|-
|Robert Miskimon
|
|Non-degreed
|Novelist, journalist, poet
|
|-
|Adam Mitzner
|1989
|Law
|Novelist, recipient of Silver Gavel Award
|
|-
|Arthur D. Morse
|
|
|Print and television journalist, author of While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy
|
|-
|David Nolan
|1967
|Col
|Author and historian
|
|-
|Nikki Ogunnaike
|2007
|Col
|Editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, former senior digital director of Harper's Bazaar
|
|-
|Breece D'J Pancake
|
|Non-degreed
|Short-story writer
|
|-
|Kiki Petrosino
|2001
|Col
|Poet
|
|-
|Hannah Pittard
|2007
|MFA
|Novelist
|
|-
|Edgar Allan Poe
|
|Non-degreed
|Poet, "father of Gothic literature", author of "The Raven", "The Tell-Tale Heart"
|
|-
|Sarah Posner
|1990
|Law
|Writer and journalist
|
|-
|Margot Lee Shetterly
|1991
|Comm
|Non-fiction writer, author of Hidden Figures
|-
|Will Shortz
|1977
|Law
|Editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle
|
|-
|Safiya Sinclair
|2014
|MFA
|Poet
|
|-
|Jens Söring
|
|Non-degreed
|Autobiographer and writer of social issues, convicted murderer without parole
|
|-
|Lisa Russ Spaar
|1978, 1982
|Col, MFA
|Poet, Pushcart Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts, professor at University of Virginia
|
|-
|William Force Stead
|1905
|Col
|Poet and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford
|
|-
|Darcey Steinke
|
|MFA
|Author
|
|-
|Sheryl Gay Stolberg
|1983
|Col
|Journalist for the New York Times
|
|-
|Ron Suskind
|1981
|Col
|Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
|
|-
|Aoibheann Sweeney
|2000
|MGA
|Novelist, author of Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
|
|-
|Henry S. Taylor
|1964
|Col
|Novelist, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Flying Change
|
|-
|Evan Thomas
|1977
|Law
|Author, journalist, historian, editor at Newsweek, author of The Wise Men
|
|-
|Samantha Thornhill
|2004
|MFA
|Poet
|
|-
|Jia Tolentino
|2009
|Col
|Writer and editor, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, staff writer at The New Yorker
|
|-
|Michael Vitez
|1979
|Col
|Staff writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pulitzer Prize winner
|
|-
|Helen Wan
|1998
|Law
|Novelist, lawyer, author of Partner Track
|
|-
|Tia Williams
|1997
|Col
|Novelist, editor
|
|-
|Theodore Wong
|Did not graduate
|
|Translator
|-
|Jenna Wortham
|2004
|Col
|Author and journalist, culture writer at the New York Times, Black Futures
|
|}
Medicine
thumb|100px|Vivian Pinn
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Rupert Blue
|1890
|Co
|Surgeon General of the United States
|
|-
|S. Ward Casscells
|1939
|Medicine
|Pioneering orthopedic surgeon, introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States
|
|-
|Francis Collins
|1970
|Col
|Director of the Human Genome Project; past director, National Institute of Health
|
|-
|Hugh S. Cumming
|1893
|Medicine
|Surgeon General of the United States
|
|-
|Lisa L. Cunningham
|
|Ph.D.
|National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientific director
|
|-
|David John Doukas
|1975
|Col
|Clinical bioethics scholar, family physician
|
|-
|Charles T. Pepper
|1855
|Medicine
|Physician who surgeon who was the original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company
|
|-
|Vivian Pinn
|1967
|Medicine
|Former associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health
|
|-
|Walter Reed
|1869
|Medicine
|Medical researcher; discovered transmission of yellow fever
|
|-
|Beverly R. Wellford
|1816
|Medicine
|Sixth president of the American Medical Association
|
|-
|Hugh H. Young
|1891
|Medicine
|Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon
|
|}
Military
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Fernando Bolivar
|
|
|Venezuelan military, nephew of General Simon Bolivar
|
|-
|Richard E. Byrd
|
|Non-degreed
|Naval officer, pioneering aviator, polar explorer
|
|-
|W. Graham Claytor Jr.
|1933
|Col
|U.S. Secretary of the Navy; president, Southern Railway and Amtrak
|
|-
|Philip St. George Cocke
|1828
|
|Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
|
|-
|Hilary A. Herbert
|1855
|Law
|Secretary of the Navy
|
|-
|Eppa Hunton
|1843
|Law
|CSA brigadier general; U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Robert Magnus
|1969
|Col
|United States Marine Corps four-star general
|
|-
|John B. Magruder
|
|Non-degreed
|Confederate Army general during the Civil War
|
|-
|John Morgan
|1972
|Col
|Vice admiral in the United States Navy
|
|-
|John S. Mosby
|Attended 1850–1853
|
|Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War
|
|-
|Charles Pede
|1984, 1987
|Col, Law
|United States Army lieutenant general, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army
|
|-
|William Pegram
|
|Law
|Artillery officer in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War
|
|-
|Carnot Posey
|
|Law
|Confederate general in the American Civil War
|
|-
|George W. Randolph
|1842
|Law
|Confederate States Secretary of War
|
|-
|James Seddon
|1836
|Graduate
|4th Confederate States Secretary of War
|
|-
|Alexander Vandegrift
|Attended 1906–1908
|Col
|Commandant of the Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient
|
|-
|John Augustine Washington III
|1840
|
|Confederate lieutenant colonel and the last member of the Washington family to own Mount Veron
|
|}
Politics
thumb|100px|Michael Signer
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Yasushi Akashi
|1956
|Graduate
|Chairman, International House of Japan; former undersecretary of the United Nations
|
|-
|George Allen
|1974, 1977
|Col, Law
|Governor and U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Hanan Ashrawi
|1982
|Graduate
|Official spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process
|
|-
|Nathan L. Bachman
|1903
|Law
|U.S. senator, Tennessee; justice, Tennessee Supreme Court
|
|-
|Evan Bayh
|1981
|Law
|U.S. senator and governor, Indiana
|
|-
|Andy Beshear
|2005
|Law
|Governor of Kentucky
|
|-
|Kit Bond
|1963
|Law
|U.S. senator, Missouri
|
|-
|Alan Stephenson Boyd
|1948
|Law
|First United States Secretary of Transportation
|
|-
|Harry F. Byrd Jr.
|1936
|Law
|U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Millard F. Caldwell
|1924
|Law
|Governor, U.S. congressman, and state supreme court justice, Florida
|
|-
|John Cornyn
|1995
|Law
|U.S. senator, Texas
|
|-
|Joseph T. Curry
|
|
|Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|
|-
|William H. Daingerfield
|1829
|Col
|2nd mayor of San Antonio; ambassador
|
|-
|Henry Winter Davis
|1841
|Law
|Outspoken Radical Republican; U.S. congressman, Maryland
|
|-
|Mary DeRosa
|1981
|Col
|Former deputy counsel to the president for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
|
|-
|Hasjim Djala
|1959
|Law
|Indonesian ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; chairman and president of the International Seabed Authority
|
|-
|Joseph T. Doyle
|1990
|Graduate
|Pennsylvania state representative
|
|-
|William A. Eaton
|1978
|Col
|United States ambassador to Panama, United States assistant secretary of state
|
|-
|Paul Erickson
|1988
|Law
|Political consultant
|
|-
|William Stamps Farish III
|1962
|Col
|U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom
|
|-
|William Meade Fishback
|1855
|Law
|17th governor of Arkansas and U.S. senator, Arkansas
|
|-
|Luis Fortuño
|1985
|Law
|Governor of Puerto Rico
|
|-
|Michael E. Guest
|1981
|Graduate
|U.S. ambassador to Romania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. ambassador
|
|-
|Barbara Halliday
|
|
|Mayor of Hayward, California
|
|-
|Mark Herring
|1986
|Graduate
|Attorney general of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia
|
|-
|Robert M. T. Hunter
|1829
|Col
|Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Eppa Hunton
|1843
|Law
|CSA brigadier general; U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Louis A. Johnson
|1913
|Law
|Second United States Secretary of Defense
|
|-
|Brereton Jones
|1961
|Communication
|Governor of Kentucky
|
|-
|John Kennedy
|1977
|Law
|U.S. senator, Louisiana, state treasurer of Louisiana
|
|-
|Robert F. Kennedy
|1951
|Law
|U.S. senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. attorney general
|
|-
|Ted Kennedy
|1959
|Law
|U.S. senator, Massachusetts
|
|-
|Angus King
|1969
|Law
|72nd governor of Maine, United States senator from Maine
|
|-
|William Preston Lane Jr.
|1915
|Law
|Governor, Maryland
|
|-
|J. Hamilton Lewis
|
|
|U.S. senator, Illinois and first whip
|
|-
|Sean Patrick Maloney
|1988, 1992
|Col, Law
|U.S. congressman, New York's 18th congressional district and former White House Office of the Staff Secretary
|
|-
|Thurgood Marshall Jr.
|1978, 1981
|Col, Law
|Former White House Cabinet Secretary
|
|-
|Roy Martin
|
|Commerce
|Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1962–1974), 31st president of the United States Conference of Mayors
|
|-
|Henry M. Mathews
|1856
|Graduate
|Governor of West Virginia
|
|-
|Jennifer McClellan
|1997
|Law
|U.S. congresswoman, Virginia's 4th congressional district
|
|-
|Samuel D. McEnery
|1857
|Col
|Governor and U.S. senator for Louisiana, United States House of Representatives
|
|-
|Ana Montes
|1979
|Col
|Convicted Cuban spy
|
|-
|Janet Napolitano
|1983
|Law
|Governor of Arizona, secretary of Homeland Security, president of the University of California System
|
|-
|Bill Nelson
|1968
|Law
|U.S. senator, Florida; NASA astronaut
|
|-
|Kirstjen Nielsen
|1999
|Law
|6th secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security
|
|-
|Longin Pastusiak
|1959
|Graduate
|Marshall of the Senate, Poland
|
|-
|Thomas Caute Reynolds
|1838
|Law
|11th lieutenant governor of Missouri; governor of Missouri (Confederate)
|
|-
|Chuck Robb
|1973
|Law
|Governor of Virginia and U.S. senator
|
|-
|Joseph T. Robinson
|1895
|Law
|Governor of Arkansas and United States Senate majority leader
|
|-
|Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
|1940
|Law
|U.S. congressman, New York
|
|-
|Chip Roy
|1994
|Commerce
|U.S. congressman, Texas's 21st congressional district
|
|-
|Mark Sanford
|1988
|Darden
|Governor of South Carolina
|
|-
|Eugene Scalia
|1985
|Col
|28th United States Secretary of Labor
|
|-
|George Schley
|1833
|Col
|Maryland State Senate, Maryland House of Delegates, and Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1850
|
|-
|Faryar Shirzad
|1992
|Law
|Advisor to United States President George W. Bush
|
|-
|Marc Short
|2004
|Darden
|White House director of Legislative Affairs
|
|-
|Michael Signer
|
|Law
|Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia
|
|-
|John W. Snow
|1965
|Graduate
|United States Secretary of the Treasury
|
|-
|Javier Solana
|1968
|Graduate
|Spanish former secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous European Union foreign policy chief
|
|-
|Abigail Spanberger
|2001
|Col
|U.S. congresswoman, governor Virginia
|
|-
|Richard B. Spencer
|2001
|Col
|Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, president and director of the National Policy Institute
|
|-
|William B. Spong Jr.
|1947
|Law
|U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|John C. Stennis
|1928
|Law
|U.S. senator, Mississippi
|
|-
|Edward Stettinius Jr.
|1924
|Col
|United States Secretary of State
|
|-
|Robert M. Switzer
|
|Law
|United States representative
|
|-
|Charles L. Terry Jr.
|1922
|Col
|Governor of Delaware
|
|-
|Robert Toombs
|1830
|Law
|U.S. senator, Georgia
|
|-
|John V. Tunney
|1959
|Law
|U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, California
|
|-
|Thomas B. Turley
|1867
|Law
|U.S. senator, Tennessee
|
|-
|John Warner
|1953
|Law
|U.S. senator, Virginia
|
|-
|Mac Warner
|1991
|Law
|Secretary of state of West Virginia
|
|-
|Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
|1957
|Law
|Governor of Connecticut, U.S. congressman, and U.S. senator
|
|-
|Kevin Whitaker
|1979
|Col
|United States ambassador to Colombia
|
|-
|Sheldon Whitehouse
|1982
|Law
|United States senator from Rhode Island, attorney general of Rhode Island
|
|-
|John Sharp Williams
|1876
|Law
|Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives
|
|-
|Wayne W. Williams
|1989
|Law
|Secretary of state of Colorado
|
|-
|Woodrow Wilson
|
|Non-degreed
|28th president of the United States
|
|-
|}
Religion
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Charles Augustus Briggs
|1860
|Col
|Hebrew scholar and theologian
|
|-
|Lloyd R. Craighill
|
|
|Second bishop of Anking, China
|
|-
|Carl P. Daw Jr.
|
|MA, Ph.D
|Executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
|
|-
|Collins Denny
|
|Graduate
|Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1910–1939)
|
|-
|James Addison Ingle
|1885, 1888
|BA, MA
|First bishop of the Missionary District of Hankow, China
|
|-
|J. William Jones
|1859
|
|Confederate chaplain, campus minister, Christian author
|
|}
Science and technology
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|John Backus
|
|Non-degreed
|Inventor of first high-level programming language, FORTRAN, and recipient of the 1977 A.M. Turing Award
|
|-
|Daniel Barringer
|1888
|Graduate
|Proved the existence of meteorites on Earth (Barringer Meteorite Crater)
|
|-
|Jesse Beams
|1926
|Graduate
|One of five primary physicists selected for the Manhattan Project, pioneer of ultracentrifuge
|
|-
|Norman L. Crabill
|1957
|Master of Aeronautical Engineering
|Engineer, inventor, author
|
|-
|Heber Doust Curtis
|1902
|Graduate
|Astronomer who participated in the "Great Debate" with Harlow Shapley, 1920
|
|-
|Patrick G. Forrester
|1989
|Graduate
|NASA astronaut
|
|-
|Matthew P. Hardy
|1985
|Ph.D. Biology
|Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function
|
|-
|Wesley L. Harris
|1964
|Engineering
|Professor at MIT; vice president of National Academy of Engineering
|
|-
|Karl G. Henize
|1947, 1948
|Col, graduate
|Astronomer, NASA astronaut
|
|-
|Darion Atkins
|2015
|
|Professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
|
|-
|Ronde Barber
|1996
|Communication
|Professional football player with Tampa Bay Buccaneers
|
|-
|Tiki Barber
|1997
|Communication
|Professional football player with the New York Giants; current sportscaster
|
|-
|Malcolm Brogdon
|2016
|
|Professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards
|
|-
|Heather Burge
|
|
|Professional basketball player with the WNBA
|
|-
|Heidi Burge
|1993
|Col
|Professional basketball player with the WNBA
|
|-
|Rick Carlisle
|1984
|Col
|Professional football player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks
|
|-
|John Choma
|1970
|
|Professional football player with the San Francisco 49ers
|
|-
|Casey Crawford
|
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Mike Cubbage
|
|
|Professional baseball player and manager
|
|-
|Virginius Dabney
|
|
|College football player and coach
|
|-
|Somdev Devvarman
|2008
|Col
|Professional tennis player
|
|-
|Mamadi Diakite
|2020
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Daryl Dike
|
|
|Professional soccer player and U.S. men's national team player
|
|-
|Bill Dudley
|1942
|Education
|Professional football player and NFL Hall of Fame
|
|-
|Jeffrey Eggleston
|2007
|
|Long-distance runner
|
|-
|Carlton Elliott
|
|
|Professional football layer with the Green Bay Packers
|
|-
|Paul Ereng
|1993
|Col
|1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters
|
|-
|Alecko Eskandarian
|
|Col
|Major League Soccer #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team
|
|-
|Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|D'Brickashaw Ferguson
|2006
|Col
|Professional football player with the New York Jets
|
|-
|Tim Finchem
|1973
|
|Commissioner of the PGA Tour
|
|-
|Morgan Gautrat
|2014
|
|Professional soccer player and member of the US Women's National Soccer Team
|
|-
|Jake Gelof
|
|
|Professional baseball player
|
|-
|Zack Gelof
|
|
|Professional baseball player
|
|-
|Conor Gill
|2002
|Col
|Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award; 2002
|
|-
|Robert Kent Gooch
|
|
|College football player
|
|-
|Jim Grobe
|1975, 1978
|
|Head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
|
|-
|Al Groh
|1967
|Communications
|Former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia football team
|
|-
|Margaret Groos
|
|
|1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon winner; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters
|
|-
|Kyle Guy
|
|
|Professional basketball player with the Sacramento Kings
|
|-
|Brandon Guyer
|
|
|Professional baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays
|
|-
|Darryl Hammond
|1988
|Col
|Professional Arena Football League player
|
|-
|John Harkes
|
|
|Professional soccer player and coach
|
|-
|Joe Harris
|2014
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Adam Haseley
|
|
|Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox
|
|-
|DeAndre Hunter
|
|
|Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks
|
|-
|Ty Jerome
|
|
|Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns
|
|-
|Mike Jones
|
|
|Professional wrestler under the names Virgil, Vincent, and Curly Moe
|
|-
|Thomas Jones
|
|
|Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs
|
|-
|Henry Jordan
|
|
|Professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame member
|
|-
|Braxton Key
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Melanie Kok
|
|
|2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing
|
|-
|Joe Koshansky
|
|
|Professional baseball player
|
|-
|Bowie Kuhn
|1950
|Law
|Former commissioner of Major League Baseball
|
|-
|Noel LaMontagne
|
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Jeff Lamp
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Sylven Landesberg
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Lesley Lehane
|
|
|Winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country in 1982
|
|-
|Chris Long
|
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Javier López
|
|
|Professional baseball player with the San Francisco Giants
|
|-
|John Loyd
|
|
|College football player and team captain
|
|-
|Wali Lundy
|
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Buck Mayer
|
|
|College football player and College Football All-America Team
|
|-
|Tony Meola
|1989
|Col
|Professional soccer player and World Cup goalkeeper
|
|-
|Jerome Meyinsse
|2010
|
|Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League
|
|-
|Heath Miller
|2004
|Col
|Professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers
|
|-
|Eugene Monroe
|2008
|Col
|Professional football player with the Jacksonville Jaguars
|
|-
|Herman Moore
|1991
|Col
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Shawn Moore
|
|
|Former NFL and CFL player, All–American at UVA
|
|-
|Ed Moses
|2004
|Education
|Olympic gold medalist in swimming
|
|-
|Trey Murphy III
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Bret Myers
|2006
|MS
|Professional soccer player
|
|-
|Ben Olsen
|
|Non-degreed
|Professional soccer player and coach with the D.C. United
|
|-
|London Perrantes
|
|
|Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League
|
|-
|John Phillips
|
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Shamek Pietucha
|1999
|Col
|Olympic swimmer
|
|-
|John Beverly Pollard
|
|
|College football player and coach
|
|-
|Sonny Randle
|1958
|
|Professional football player
|
|-
|Claudio Reyna
|
|Non-degreed
|Professional soccer player and captain of U.S. national team
|
|-
|LaRoy Reynolds
|
|
|Professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons
|
|-
|Mark Reynolds
|
|
|Professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals
|
|-
|Eppa Rixey
|1912
|Col
|Professional baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame member
|
|-
|Chris Rotelli
|2003
|
|Professional lacrosse player
|
|-
|Jake Rozhansky
|
|
|Professional soccer player
|
|-
|Ralph Sampson
|1983
|Col
|NBA #1 draft pick, professional basketball player, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
|
|-
|Becky Sauerbrunn
|
|
|Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team
|
|-
|Matt Schaub
|2003
|Col
|Professional football player with the Houston Texans
|
|-
|Michael Schwimer
|2008
|
|Professional baseball player with the Philadelphia Phillies
|
|-
|Mike Scott
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Marial Shayok
|
|
|Basketball player in the NBA and the Israeli Premier Basketball League
|
|-
|Don Shula
|
|
|Professional football head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins
|
|-
|Chris Slade
|1993
|Col
|Professional football player with the New England Patriots
|
|-
|Michael Slive
|1965
|Law
|Former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC)
|
|-
|Devin Smith
|
|
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Emily Sonnett
|2015
|Col
|Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team
|
|-
|Dawn Staley
|1992
|Col
|2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, college basketball coach, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
|
|-
|Chris Taylor
|
|
|Professal baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers
|
|-
|Bradley Walker
|
|
|College football coach and referee
|
|-
|DeMya Walker
|1999
|Col
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|George Welsh
|
|
|College football player and coach
|
|-
|Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
|
|
|Founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium
|
|-
|Monica Wright
|2010
|Col
|Professional basketball player
|
|-
|Ryan Zimmerman
|2005
|Col
|Professional baseball player with the Washington Nationals
|
|}
Other
{| class="wikitable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Class
!School or degree
!Notability
!References
|-
|Jason Kessler
|2009
|Col
|Neo-Nazi, white supremacist
|
|-
|Ginnie Sebastian Storage
|
|BA
|47th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution
|
|-
|Otto Warmbier
|
|
|College student imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion
|
|}
Notable faculty and staff
thumb|100px|Jennifer Lawless
thumb|100px|Larycia Hawkins
thumb|100px|David Joran with President Ronald Reagan
thumb|100px|Alfred G. Gilman
thumb|100px|Barry Marshall
thumb|100px|Ferid Murad
thumb|100px|Edward Purdy
thumb|100px|William B. Quandt
thumb|100px|Larry Sabato
thumb|100px|Antonin Scalia
thumb|100px|Jerry White
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:85%;"
!Name
!Field
!UVA position
!Notability
!References
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|Henry J. Abraham
|Political Science
|James Hart Professor of Government
|Scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law
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|Bruce Arena
|Soccer
|Head men's soccer coach
|Coached the Virginia Cavaliers to five NCAA championships; head coach of the US national men's soccer team
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|Silvia Blemker
|Biomedical Engineering
|Professor
|Professor of biomechanical engineering; co-founder and chief scientific officer of Springbok Analytics
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|Julian Bond
|History
|Professor
|Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; co-founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center
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|John Bonvllian
|Psychology
|Associate professor
|Pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication
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|Anna Brickhouse
|American Studies
|Department director
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|James M. Buchanan
|Economics
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|Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986
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|Lester J. Cappon
|History
|Archivist and professor
|Archivist for Colonial Williamsburg
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|Meredith Clark
|Media Studies
|Assistant professor
|Expert on Black Twitter
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|Ronald Coase
|Economics
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|Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991
|
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|Martha Derthick
|Public Administration
|Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs
|Consummate authority on the Social Security Administration
|
|-
|Robert E. Emery
|Psychology
|Professor and director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law
|
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|William Faulkner
|English
|Writer in residence
|Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962
|
|-
|Elmer L. Gaden
|Biochemistry
|Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering
|Known as the "father of biochemical engineering"
|
|-
|Alfred G. Gilman
|Pharmacology
|Assistant professor
|1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology
|
|-
|Larycia Hawkins
|Political Science
|Associate professor in religious studies and political science
|
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|-
|Matthew Holden
|Political Science
|Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics
|Former president of the American Political Science Association; former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
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|Thomas M. Humphrey
|Economy
|
|Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
|
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|Milton W. Humphreys
|Latin and Greek
|Professor
|
|
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|Patricia Jennings
|Education
|Professor
|
|
|-
|David C. Jordan
|Political Science
|Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics
|United States ambassador to Peru
|
|-
|Robert S. Kemp
|Business
|Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce
|
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|Charles W. Kent
|English
|Professor
|
|
|-
|W. A. Lambeth
|Medicine
|Professor and athletic director
|First athletic director at UVA
|
|-
|Jennifer L. Lawless
|Political Science
|Commonwealth Professor of Politics; faculty affiliate of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
|
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|-
|Angeline Stoll Lillard
|Psychology
|Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor
|
|
|-
|Dumas Malone
|History
|Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History
|Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time
|
|-
|Barry Marshall
|Medicine
|
|2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology
|
|-
|Ferid Murad
|Biochemistry, Pharmacology
|Professor; director, Clinical Research Center; and director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine
|1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology
|
|-
|Edward P. Ney
|Physics
|Assistant Professor
|Made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy
|
|-
|Ken Ono
|Mathematics
|Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics
|Expert on Number Theory and Srinivasa Ramanujan
|
|-
|Charlotte Patterson
|Psychology
|Professor and director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program
|Specialist in the psychology of sexual orientation
|
|-
|Shayn Peirce-Cottler
|Biomedical Engineering
|Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Enginering
|
|
|-
|Andrea L. Press
|Media Studies and Sociology
|William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology
|
|
|-
|William B. Quandt
|Political Science
|Professor in the Department of Politics
|Member of the National Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty
|
|-
|William Barton Rogers
|Philosophy
|Department head and faculty
|Founded MIT and became its first president
|
|-
|Richard Rorty
|Philosophy
|Kenan Professor of Humanities
|Influential writer
|
|-
|Larry Sabato
|Political Science
|Professor of politics; founder and director of the Center for Politics
|Named the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal
|
|-
|James D. Savage
|Political Science
|Professor of politics; faculty affiliate of the Batten School
|Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy
|
|-
|Antonin Scalia
|Law
|Professor
|Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
|
|-
|Natasha Sheybani
|Biomedical Engineering
|Assistant professor
|First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award
|
|-
|William D. Spotnitz
|Medicine
|Cardiothoracic surgeon, University of Virginia Health System
|Researcher in the use of fibrin glue
|
|-
|Herbert Stein
|Economics
|A. Willis Robertson Professor
|Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
|
|-
|Peter Taylor
|English
|
|Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993
|
|-
|George Tucker
|Philosophy
|Professor of Moral Philosophy
|Early biographer of Thomas Jefferson and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
|
|-
|Eric Turkheimer
|Psychology
|Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology
|Specialist in how genes and environments shape the development of human behavior
|
|-
|Siva Vaidhyanathan
|Media Studies
|Robertson Professor of Media Studies
|Permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate
|
|-
|Jerry White
|Business Administration
|Professor of Practice; adjunct faculty of the Politics Department
|CEO of Global Impact Strategies Inc.; co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
|
|-
|Stephen K. White
|Political Science
|James Hart Professor of Politics
|
|
|-
|Bruce A. Williams
|Media Studies
|Professor of Media Studies
|
|
|-
|Daniel T. Willingham
|Psychology
|Professor and director of Graduate Studies
|Specialist in cognition related to K–12 education
|
|-
|Timothy Wilson
|Psychology
|Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology
|Author of popular books
|
|-
|Tibor Wlassics
|Italian
|Kenan Professor of Italian Studies
|Research on the poet Dante Alighieri
|
|-
|Brantly Womack
|Political Science
|Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs
|
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|}
Rectors and members of the board of visitors
- Thomas Jefferson – rector (1819–1826)
- James Madison – rector (1826–1836)
- James Monroe – board of visitors
- Joseph Carrington Cabell – rector (1834–1836 & 1845–1856)
- Chapman Johnson – rector (1836–1845)
- Andrew Stevenson – rector (1856–1857)
- Thomas Jefferson Randolph – rector (1857–1864)
- Alexander Rives – rector (1865–1866)
- Robert Garlick Hill Kean – rector (1872–1876)
- Armistead C. Gordon – rector (1897–1898 & 1906–1918)
- John Stewart Bryan – rector and board member (1918–1922)
- C. Harding Walker – rector (1922–1930)
- Edward R. Stettinius Jr. – rector (1946–1949)
- Albert Vickers Bryan – rector (1960–1964)
- D. French Slaughter Jr. – rector (1980–1982)
- Fred G. Pollard – rector (1982–1987)
- Edward Elliott Elson – rector (1990–1992)
- Helen Dragas – rector (2011–2013)
- Whittington W. Clement – rector (2021–2023)
See also
- List of University of Virginia School of Law alumni
References
External links
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