List of University of Georgia people

This list of University of Georgia alumni includes alumni and current students of the University of Georgia. Honorary degree recipients are not included.

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The Georgia Arch, the historic icon and symbol of the University of Georgia, is recognized by UGA alumni and students around the world

Chief executives and presidents of the University of Georgia

• Abraham Baldwin, President (1785–1801; 16 years)
• Josiah Meigs, President (1801–1810; 9 years)
• John Brown, President (1811–1816; 6 years)
• Robert Finley, President (1817; 1 year)
• Moses Waddel, President (1819–1829; 10 years)
• Alonzo S. Church, President (1829–1859; 30 years)
• Andrew A. Lipscomb, Chancellor (1860–1874; 15 years)
• Henry Holcombe Tucker, Chancellor (1874–1878; 4 years)
• Patrick Hues Mell, Chancellor (1878–1888; 10 years)
• William Ellison Boggs, Chancellor (1889–1898; 9 years)
• Walter Barnard Hill, Chancellor (1899–1905; 6 years)
• David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr., Chancellor (1906–1925; 20 years)
• Charles Melton Snelling, Chancellor (1925–1932; 7 years)
• Steadman Vincent Sanford, President (1932 — 1935; 3 years)
• Harmon White Caldwell, President (1935–1948; 13 years)
• Jonathan Clark Rogers, President (1949–1950; 2 years)
• Omer Clyde Aderhold, President (1950–1967; 17 years)
• Frederick Corbet Davison, President (1967–1986; 19 years)
• Henry King Stanford, Interim President (1986–1987; 1 year)
• Charles Boynton Knapp, President (1987–1997; 10 years)
• Michael F. Adams, President (1997–2013; 16 years)
• Jere Morehead, President (2013–present)

Alumni

Arts, media and entertainment

Actor Josh Holloway at the Comic-Con Lost press room in San Diego, July 25, 2009

Chef Alton Brown at the 2011 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas

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Ryan Seacrest at the Seattle auditions of American Idol, September 2006

• Dottie Alexander, keyboardist for of Montreal
• Bill Anderson, country musician and songwriter
• The B-52's, New Wave rock band
• Kim Basinger (attended), actress
• The Beat Geeks - music group known for the hit single "(Sweat) Lose Control"
• John Bell, lead singer for band Widespread Panic
• Coleman Breland, Chief Operating Officer of Turner Network Sales
• Alton Brown, chef and host of Good Eats
• Tituss Burgess, Broadway actor and singer, best known for originating the role of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid musical
• Casey J, gospel singer best known for song "Fill Me Up"
• Kyle Chandler, film and television actor best known for his role as Deputy Jackson Lamb in the film Super 8, and in the television shows Early Edition as Gary Hobson, Grey's Anatomy as Dylan Young, and as Coach Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights
• Mike Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner
• Danger Mouse (real name Brian Burton), musician, collaborator in DangerDoom and Gnarls Barkley
• Jack Davis, cartoonist and illustrator for Mad Magazine
• Tom Deitz, novelist
• Tiffany Dupont, actress, most known for roles in One Night with the King and Greek
• Bobbie Eakes, soap opera actress and singer
• Costaki Economopoulos, comedian
• Rob Evan, actor and singer
• Jerry Fuchs, indie rock drummer for Turing Machine, The Juan MacLean, !!! and Maserati; performed drums live with the groups MSTRKRFT, Massive Attack and LCD Soundsystem
• Doreen Gentzler, television news anchor
• Glenn Gilbertti, professional wrestler
• Parker Gispert, lead singer and Julian Dorio, drummer for The Whigs
• Bill Goldberg, professional football player, professional wrestler and actor
• Charlton Griffin, narrator, 4-time Audie Award winner
• Lewis Grizzard, humorist
• Ron and Richard Harris (Aswirl Twins), America's Next Top Model Cycles 6, 7, and 11
• Colleen Haskell, former reality show contestant and actress
• Shuler Hensley, actor
• Anne T. Hill, fashion designer
• Amanda Holland, fashion model, stage name Mandi Lee
• Josh Holloway, actor, known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on the television show Lost
• Michael Houser, former lead guitar player and vocalist for Widespread Panic
• Clark Howell, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman and journalist
• Raymond Hughes, conductor and former chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera
• Dustin Ingle, actor, The Tournament
• Felicia Joy, entrepreneur, youngest chief spokesperson to have ever served at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
• Charles Kelley, member of the country music band Lady Antebellum
• Wayne Knight, actor, best known for playing "Newman" from Seinfeld and his role as Dennis Nedry from Jurassic Park.
• Matt Lanter, actor, former reality TV personality and model, voice of Anakin Skywalker in all Star Wars: The Clone Wars incarnations
• Richard Mandell, golf architect, writer, and radio show personality
• Kate Michael, Miss District of Columbia 2006
• Marion Montgomery, poet, novelist, educator, and critic
• Winfield Myers, journalist and public intellectual
• Fred Newman, voice actor, composer, sound effects artist on A Prairie Home Companion
• Mikey Post, actor and little person
• Emilio Pucci, fashion designer
• Pylon, post-punk band; all four members attended the university: Vanessa Briscoe Hay, Randall Bewley, Curtis Crowe, and Michael Lachowski
• R.E.M., popular alternative rock band; all four members attended the university: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry
• San E, Korean hip hop rapper, debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2010
• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol host
• Dave Schools, bass player and vocalist for Widespread Panic
• Richard T. Scott, 21st-century classical painter
• Sonny Shroyer, actor, The Dukes of Hazzard, Forrest Gump, Ray
• IronE Singleton, actor, The Walking Dead
• Amy Smilovic, fashion designer, Tibi
• A. E. Stallings, poet
• Brandon Stanton, blogger, photographer, founder of Humans of New York (2010)
• Luke Tan, country singer
• Natasha Trethewey, poet
• James Michael Tyler, actor, most known for his role in the TV show Friends as Gunther
• Charles Wadsworth, classical pianist and composer
• Philip Lee Williams, novelist, poet, essayist and composer
• Stuart Woods, novelist

Athletics

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Bubba Watson at the 2011 Presidents Cup during a practice round

• Shandon Anderson, NBA
• Boss Bailey, NFL linebacker for the Denver Broncos
• Champ Bailey, NFL cornerback for the Denver Broncos
• Chip Beck, professional golfer, former player on the PGA Tour
• Gordon Beckham, MLB infielder for the Chicago White Sox
• Kendrell Bell, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Kim Black, Olympic swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 2001
• Mitchell Boggs, MLB pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
• Justin Bolli, player on the PGA Tour
• Kara Braxton, WNBA forward for the Detroit Shock
• Bill Brown (did not graduate), college baseball coach of George Mason
• Reggie Brown, NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Kevin Butler, NFL kicker for the Chicago Bears 1985-1995, Super Bowl XX
• Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, current shooting guard for the Detroit Pistons; SEC Player of the Year in 2013
• Quincy Carter, NFL quarterback
• Spud Chandler, pitcher for the New York Yankees
• Paul Claxton, professional golfer
• Bob Clemens, NFL fullback for the Green Bay Packers
• Erik Compton, professional golfer and two-time heart transplant recipient
• Ian Conlon, former Striker for the United States men's Paralympic soccer team.
• Lisa Coole, swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year in 1997
• Brandon Coutu, American football placekicker, currently a member of the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League
• Terrell Davis, former NFL running back and Super Bowl MVP for the Denver Broncos
• Van Davis, former professional football player
• Todd Duffee, football player; current mixed martial artist for the Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Kris Durham, wide receiver for the Detroit Lions
• Pat Dye, athletic director and football head coach at Auburn University (1981–1992)
• Teresa Edwards, basketball player in the Olympics, the ABL, and the WNBA
• Gene Ellenson, former professional football player
• Harris English, player on the PGA Tour
• Ken Farmer, football, kicker/punter. Injury ended career in 1986
• Vern Fleming, NBA player, taken 18th in the 1984 NBA draft
• Robert Geathers, NFL defensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals
• Vicki Goetze, player on the LPGA Tour
• Bill Goldberg, NFL football player, and World Heavyweight Champion wrestler in WCW and WWE
• Charles Grant, NFL defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints
• A.J. Green, wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals
• David Greene, drafted in 2005 by the Seattle Seahawks
• Forrest Griffin, mixed-martial artist, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion; UFC Hall of Fame member; retired
• András Haklits, professional bobsleigher and Olympian
• Bill Hartman Jr., American football running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins
• Andre Hastings, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Len Hauss, 3-time All Pro, 5-time Pro Bowler for the Redskins, President of the NFLPA
• Jarvis Hayes, NBA 1st round pick (10th overall) Washington Wizards
• Verron Haynes, NFL running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Garrison Hearst, former NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos)
• Russell Henley, player on the PGA Tour
• Claude Hipps, NFL defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Terry Hoage, former NFL defensive back for six NFL teams over 13 seasons
• Reese Hoffa, shot putter ranked #1 in the world
• Dennis Hughes, NFL player
• Ryuji Imada, player on the PGA Tour
• John Isner, professional tennis player
• Andy Johnson, former American footballer for the New England Patriots
• Buckshot Jones, stock-car driver, two-time winner in the NASCAR Busch Series
• Daryll Jones, NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers and the Denver Broncos
• Jumaine Jones, professional basketball player
• Jeff Keppinger, MLB infielder for the Houston Astros
• Alec Kessler, NBA 1st round pick (12th overall) Miami Heat
• Chris Kirk, player on the PGA Tour
• Kristy Kowal, 2000 Olympic silver medalist, swimming; NCAA Woman of the Year in 2000
• Billy Kratzert, professional golfer and sportscaster
• Franklin Langham, player on the PGA Tour
• Tommy Lyons, former NFL offensive lineman for the Denver Broncos
• Mohamed Massaquoi, NFL wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns
• Randy McMichael, NFL tight end for the St. Louis Rams
• Bob McWhorter, football and baseball, Georgia's first All-America
• Adam Meadows, American football player for the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts
• Shannon Mitchell, NFL tight end for the San Diego Chargers
• Knowshon Moreno, NFL running back for the Denver Broncos
• Buster Mott, NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers
• Reid Patterson, 1956 Olympic Swimmer and former 50 freestyle world record holder, UGA Circle of Honor
• Mikael Pernfors, tennis pro, twice NCAA champion, runner-up in 1986 French Open Grand Slam Championship
• David Pollack, 3-time football All-American, drafted in 2005 by the Cincinnati Bengals
• Jamie Pollock, professional soccer player
• Larry Rakestraw, Chicago Bears quarterback
• John Rauch, NFL creator of the West Coast offense, former Coach of the Oakland Raiders
• Nolen Richardson, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds 3rd baseman; UGA Baseball Head Coach
• Saudia Roundtree, Naismith College Player of the Year in 1996
• Freddy Sale, MLB pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
• Theron Sapp, NFL running back for the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers
• Jake Scott, former NFL safety and Super Bowl MVP for the Miami Dolphins
• Sonny Seiler, former Georgia swimmer, owner of Georgia mascot Uga
• Richard Seymour, NFL defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
• D.J. Shockley, season record holder most touchdowns responsible for and most touchdown passes in a season; NFL Practice squad quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons
• Frank Sinkwich, All-American football player and Heisman Trophy winner in 1942
• "Catfish" Smith, member of the College Football Hall of Fame and UGA Circle of Honor, UGA Baseball Head Coach
• Matthew Stafford, NFL quarterback for the Detroit Lions; drafted by the Detroit Lions first overall in the 2009 NFL Draft
• Matt Stinchcomb, NFL offensive lineman Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2-time football All-America, 1st round 1999 draft
• Jon Stinchcomb, NFL offensive lineman New Orleans Saints, football All-American, 2nd round draft choice
• Hudson Swafford, player on the Web.com Tour
• Sheila Taormina, Olympic gold medalist, the only American to participate in the Olympics in three different sports
• Fran Tarkenton, 9-time Pro-Bowler as quarterback of the NFL Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants
• Christi Thomas, WNBA forward for the Los Angeles Sparks
• Odell Thurman, NFL linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals
• Forrest Towns, Olympic Games gold medalist, world record holder, 1936, first Olympian and gold medalist from Georgia
• Charley Trippi, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, two-time Pro Bowl halfback for the Chicago Cardinals
• Herschel Walker, NFL running back, Heisman Trophy winner and three-time All-American/member of U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team/undefeated MMA fighter
• Hines Ward, NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl MVP for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Danny Ware, running back for the New York Giants in the NFL, on team that won Super Bowl XLII
• Anna Watson, cheerleader and fitness model, credited as "The World's Strongest Cheerleader"
• Bubba Watson, player on the PGA Tour, winner of the 2012 Masters Tournament
• Don Wells, NFL defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers
• Jodie Whire, NFL player
• Gene White, NFL defensive back for the Green Bay Packers
• Jermaine Wiggins, NFL tight end for the Minnesota Vikings
• Damien Wilkins, NBA guard for the Seattle SuperSonics
• Dominique Wilkins, NBA slam dunk champion for the Atlanta Hawks
• Cale Yarbrough (attended), professional MMA fighter, former cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7

Business and industry

Billy Payne was credited for bringing the 1996 Summer Olympic Games to Atlanta, Georgia

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Jonathan Gosier at a TED conference

• Dan Amos, Chairman and CEO of AFLAC
• Jimmy Barge, Executive Vice President and CFO of Viacom
• D.W. Brooks, founder and chairman emeritus of Gold Kist
• M. Michele Burns, board member of Wal-Mart, Cisco Systems and Goldman Sachs
• Maxine Clark, founder of Build A Bear Workshop
• A.D. "Pete" Correll, Chairman of Atlanta Equity, Chairman Emeritus of Georgia-Pacific Corporation
• Tom Cousins, founder of Cousins Properties
• Gina Drosos, Global Head of Beauty at Procter & Gamble
• Jonathan Gosier, Director at Ushahidi, TED Senior Fellow
• Frank Hanna III, entrepreneur, philanthropist and merchant banker
• Mason Hawkins, value investor and founder of Southeastern Asset Management
• John Heyman, former CEO of Radiant Systems
• Ron Holt, founder and CEO, Two Maids & A Mop
• Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr., President of J.C. Lewis Enterprises and Lewis Broadcasting Corp.
• Hala Moddelmog, president of Church's Chicken and Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Dan Neely, founder and CEO of Networked Insights
• William NeSmith, board member of University System of Georgia, co-owner and President of Community, Inc, past president of Georgia Press Association, chairman of Richard B. Russell foundation, emeritus member of UGA's Athletic Association's Board of Directors
• Billy Payne, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club; president and CEO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games; responsible for bringing the 1996 Summer Olympic Games to Atlanta, Georgia; managing director at New York-based investment bank Gleacher & Company
• Thomas J. Stanley, New York Times best-selling author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind
• Kessel Stelling, President and CEO of Synovus Financial Corp; former CEO and President of Bank of North Georgia; Chairman of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce
• Brown L. Whatley, Chairman of Arvida Corp., President of Mortgage Bankers Association of America

Doug Weston - Founder and Owner of Towersource, Inc.

Economics and finance

• Eugene Robert Black, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Eugene R. Black, Sr. former President of the World Bank (1949–1963)
• Dennis Beresford, former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Michael Hamilton, former chief financial officer of Kodak
• Harold Kelly, Head of Global Convertible and Derivative Arbitrage, and Executive Managing Director of Och Ziff
• Robert D. McTeer, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (1991–2005)
• Bernard Ramsey, former senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch
• Charles S. Sanford, Jr., retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust

Educators

• John E. Champion, president of Florida State University
• Tomlinson Fort, Jr., Head of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon and Vanderbilt. Provost and Vice President of Cal Poly
• Richard Gershon, current Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law
• Cynthia Kenyon, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Hilde Lindemann, philosophy professor, bioethicist, currently teaching at Michigan State University
• Robert D. McTeer, former chancellor of the Texas A&M University System
• Timothy Mescon, President of Columbus State University
• Michael G. Scales, President of Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary
• John Newton Waddel, former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
• Wilson A. Head, sociologist, professor of social work and sociology at York University, activist in race relations, peace and the abolition of prisons. Doctoral degree in Sociology, Adult Education, and Social Psychology, 1958 (1914-1993).

Government and the law

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Former Georgia governor Zell Miller was founder of the HOPE Scholarship.

Former governor Nathaniel Harris was the founder of Georgia Institute of Technology.

Alexander H. Stephens was the Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

• Abdul Karim al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen
• Diane Marie Amann, Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia, appointee to International Criminal Court Prosecutor as advisor on children in and affected by armed conflict
• Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia
• William Yates Atkinson, Governor of Georgia
• Roy Barnes, Governor of Georgia, Georgia Senator, Georgia House of Representatives member, volunteer at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., and partner of Barnes Law Group; credited for the removal of the Confederate rebel flag from the flag of Georgia
• John Barrow, current member of United States House of Representatives
• Robert Benham, first African-American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
• William Tapley Bennett Jr., US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Portugal and NATO
• Cecile Bledsoe, member of the Arkansas State Senate, formerly represented two different districts in the Arkansas House of Representatives
• Lee Bonner, Commissioner of Douglas County, Nevada
• Michael Bowers, Georgia Attorney General
• Charles H. Bronson, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
• Clifford Cleveland Brooks, member of the Louisiana State Senate 1924-1932, represented the northeast delta parishes
• Allen Buckley, lawyer and CPA
• Garland T. Byrd, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
• Albert Sidney Camp, politician, educator and lawyer
• Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator
• Howell Cobb, Governor of Georgia and US Representative, Speaker of the House in 31st Congress
• Cathy Cox, Secretary of State for the state of Georgia
• Ander Crenshaw, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Benjamin Cromwell Franklin, first judicial officeholder in the Republic of Texas
• Heidi Davison, former mayor of Athens, Georgia
• William Crosby Dawson, U.S. Senator, judge, politician
• Nancy Denson, mayor of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
• Norman S. Fletcher, Georgia State Supreme Court Chief Justice
• Alva Garey, former Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate
• John B. Gordon, General in Confederate Army, U.S. Senator, Governor of Georgia
• Phil Gramm, former U.S. Senator from Texas
• Tom Graves, U.S. Representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district
• Joe Frank Harris, Governor of Georgia, credited for the construction of the Georgia Dome, creating the Technical College System of Georgia and bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta
• Nathaniel E. Harris, Governor of Georgia, founder of Georgia Institute of Technology
• Young L.G. Harris, state representative from Elbert and Clarke Counties, federal judge
• Mike Hubbard, Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives
• Hank Huckaby, Georgia Representative and Chancellor of the University System of Georgia
• Guy G. Hurlbutt, United States Attorney for Idaho 1981-1984; former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Governor of Georgia, U.S. senator, Confederate senator, and candidate for U.S. vice president
• James Johnson, Governor of Georgia and U.S. Representative
• Chee Soon Juan, neuropsychologist and Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party.
• Brian P. Kemp, Secretary of State of the U.S. State of Georgia.
• Jack Kingston, U.S. Congressman
• Henderson Lovelace Lanham, U.S. Congressman
• Sam Massell, 53rd mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; the first Jewish mayor in the city's history
• John Milledge, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator and US Representative
• Zell Miller, U.S. Senator, Governor of Georgia, and founder of the HOPE Scholarship
• Brooks Pennington Jr., member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia State Senate, author, businessman, philanthropist
• Sonny Perdue, Georgia Governor and veterinarian
• Eric Phillips, Senior Security Advisor
• Ralph Reed, conservative activist and former candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia
• Fred B. Rooney, US Representative from Pennsylvania
• Richard Russell, Jr., Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
• Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia
• John Marshall Slaton, Governor of Georgia
• Alexander Stephens, Governor of Georgia and later Vice-President of the Confederate States of America
• Eugene Talmadge, Governor of Georgia
• Herman Talmadge, Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
• Mark Taylor, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
• Melvin E. Thompson, Governor of Georgia
• Dina Titus, former U.S. Representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district and professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia

Media and journalism

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Deborah Roberts, host of ABC's Good Morning America in May of 2009

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Entertainment Tonight host Julie Moran and singer Kelly Clarkson at the 2009 American Music Awards

• Brooke Anderson, news anchor for CNN
• Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
• Dominic Brown, television meteorologist
• Jim Callis, executive editor at Baseball America
• Chip Caray, baseball announcer
• Bill Crane, political columnist and TV personality, president of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
• Jimmy Currier, journalist, former Sports Editor of the Effingham Herald, former Sports Director of WUOG
• Joel Furr, columnist, USENET personality, first person to use the term "spam" to describe unwanted mass electronic messages
• Henry W. Grady, journalist and orator; Grady Memorial Hospital, Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and Henry W. Grady High School are named in his honor
• Ed Grisamore, author, journalist; recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, presented by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists
• Lewis Grizzard, author, humorist, columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and sports editor for the Chicago Sun-Times
• John Huey, columnist, editor and chief of Time Inc.
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author; international journalist and broadcaster for The New York Times, WRC-TV, CNN, NPR, PBS, and The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; one of the first two African-Americans to be admitted to the university; the Holmes-Hunter academic building is named after her and Hamilton Holmes
• Ernie Johnson, Jr., sports broadcaster for TNT and TBS
• Tom Johnson, press agent and personal aid to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and CEO of CNN
• W. Thomas Johnson, retired chairman, president, and CEO of CNN; former president, publisher, and CEO of Los Angeles Times
• Jeanetta Jones, meteorologist
• Connie LeGrand, television journalist in South Carolina; former host of Speed News
• Pat Mitchell, former president of Public Broadcasting Service and current president of The Paley Center for Media in New York City
• Julie Moran, host of Entertainment Tonight
• Deborah Norville, television journalist
• Andrew Phillips, NBC meteorologist and reporter
• Tom Poland, author and journalist
• Leonard Postero, creator of Leonard's Losers, a syndicated football prognostication radio show
• Ralph Reed, pundit and former director of the Christian Coalition
• Amy Robach, co-anchor of Weekend Today, former MSNBC anchor, current correspondent for ABC News
• Deborah Roberts, ABC News producer and correspondent
• Mark Schlabach, ESPN college football and basketball columnist, formerly of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Washington Post
• Parvati Shallow, Survivor: Micronesia winner
• Tommy Tomlinson, columnist for the Charlotte Observer; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Medicine

Crawford Long, the inventor of anesthesia

• Paul Broun, physician and U.S. Representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district and
• Hervey M. Cleckley, psychiatrist and co-author of The Three Faces of Eve
• William Harrell Felton, politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
• Hamilton E. Holmes, orthopedist, professor and associate dean of Emory University School of Medicine
• Fady Joudah, physician and poet
• Alec Kessler, orthopedic surgeon and former basketball player for the Miami Heat
• Crawford Long, surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic
• Barbara Rothbaum, psychologist, professor at Emory University
• J. Roy Rowland, physician and politician

Military

John B. Gordon was a Georgia governor and confederate general in the Civil War.

• William P. Acker, Major General in the Air Force
• Colonel Charles A. Beckwith, credited with the creation of the counter-terrorism special forces unit Delta Force; author of Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
• Lloyd D. Brown, United States Army Major General who commanded the 28th Infantry Division in World War II
• Lt. Gen Stanley E. "Sid" Clarke III, director of the U.S. Air National Guard (appointed in 2013), former commander of the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and 1st Air Force
• John B. Gordon, General in Confederate Army, US Senator, Governor of Georgia
• Eugene E. Habiger, retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command (USCINCSTRAT) 1996-1998
• Colonel James R. Lockett, awarded two Silver Stars during the Spanish American War; World War II Camp Lockett was named in his honor
• Lieutenant General Jack L. Rives, 15th Judge Advocate General of the Air Force
• David N. Senty, Major General in the Air Force
• Colonel Michael D. Steele, former commander of the 101st Airborne, veteran of the Battle of Mogadishu and Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Luis R. Visot, Major General in the United States Army

Ministry and religion

• Benjamin M. Palmer, South Carolina native, first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856–1902)
• George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, President of Georgia Female College and Emory University
• David Platt, pastor of the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham Alabama and author of the NY Times best seller Radical
• Dennis Rouse, pastor of mega nondenominational multicultural church Victory World Church

Scientific research

• Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor of Genetics at University of Georgia, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Cornelia Bargmann, neurobiologist and anatomy professor at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, British plant scientist and geneticist; post-doctoral fellow 1978-1980, now Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge
• Alfred Blalock, medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock
• A. Jamie Cuticchia, bioinformatics pioneer, director of human genome database
• Leonard DeLonga, sculptor, painter, and professor at Mount Holyoke College
• Charles Herty, academic, chemist and businessman; namesake of UGA's Herty Field
• Cynthia Kenyon, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Kerwin Swint, political scientist and author, known for his research and writing in the fields of political campaigns, mass media, and political history

Distinguished faculty and staff

The University of Georgia has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. It has also been the home of successful athletic coaches. Notable past and present faculty and staff include:

Administration

• Donald R. Eastman III, served as the Vice President for University Relations at the University of Georgia 1991-1998; Vice President for Strategic Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Georgia 1998-2001
• Karen Holbrook, former Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Georgia. Former president of Ohio State University
• Willian F. Prokasy, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Georgia 1988-1998; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 1980-1988

Arts and humanities

• Judith Ortiz Cofer, writer, Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing
• Chris Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy
• Lamar Dodd, painter of the southern United States
• Hugh Kenner, literary scholar and prolific critic, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Edward J. Larson, professor of history, Pulitzer Prize winner for Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
• William S. McFeely, professor of humanities, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Gary Lee Noffke, artist and silversmith
• Dean Rusk, former US Secretary of State
• Freddy Wittop, Tony Award-winning costume designer

Athletics

• Tevester Anderson, former associate head coach and chief recruiter for the Georgia Bulldogs 1986–1995, now head coach at Jackson State University
• Jack Bauerle, swimming and diving coach
• Wally Butts, football coach
• W.A. Cunningham, football head coach, basketball head coach
• Jim Donnan, football coach
• Vince Dooley, football coach and Athletic Director
• Hugh Durham, head basketball coach 1979-1995
• Damon Evans, former Athletic Director and alumnus
• Mark Fox, 2009 men's basketball head coach
• La'Keshia Frett, former collegiate and professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Georgia
• Ray Goff, football coach
• Jim Harrick, 1999-2003 men's basketball head coach
• Pete Herrmann, 2003-2009 men's basketball associate head coach, 2009 interim head coach
• Ron Jirsa, men's basketball coach, 1995–1997, associate head coach, 1997-1999 heach coach
• Ralph Jordan, 1946-1950 men's basketball head coach
• Andy Landers, women's basketball coach
• Dan Magill, tennis coach
• W.O. Payne, Athletic Director and alumnus
• Howell Peacock, 1912-1916 men's basketball head coach
• Mark Richt, football coach
• Mark Slonaker, 1975–1979 men's basketball player, returned as assistant men's basketball coach 1989–1995
• Tubby Smith, 1995–1997 men's basketball head coach, assistant coach for the 2000 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team in Sydney, Australia
• Herman Stegeman, former basketball, football and athletics coach, including 17 years coaching track and field, in 1929 became athletics director; Stegeman Hall (now demolished) and Stegeman Coliseum were dedicated in his honor
• Forrest "Specs" Towns, retired from competition in 1938 to become an assistant track coach at Georgia; head coach in 1942; over the next 34 years his teams won 21 Southeastern Conference outdoor championships and 5 indoor titles
• Terri Williams-Flournoy, former assistant coach, women's basketball
• Suzanne Yoculan, women's gymnastics coach

Education

• Donna Alvermann, educator, currently university-appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of Georgia

Engineering

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

Mathematics

• Andrew Granville, professor of mathematics and David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics at the University of Georgia 1991-2002
• Carl Pomerance, former professor of mathematics at University of Georgia, distinguished number theorist (Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture)
• Robert Rumely, professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia and numbers theory researcher (Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test)

Scientific research

• Norman Allinger, chemist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, awarded the Franklin Medal
• Allan Armitage, horticulturist, recipient of the National Educator Award from the American Horticultural Society.
• John Avise, genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, formerly a member of faculty at University of Georgia, now a Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine
• Jeffrey Bennetzen, molecular geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Brent Berlin, anthropologist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Murray S. Blum, entomologist, recipient of Lamar Dodd Award, authority on chemical ecology and pheromones
• Eugene T. Booth, Rhodes Scholar, nuclear physicist; member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; worked on the Manhattan Project
• Alan P. Covich, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, former director of the UGA Institute of Ecology, past president of the ESA and of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, current president of the International Association for Ecology
• Wilbur Howard Duncan, botanist, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Steven Holland, geologist and marine biologist, President of the Paleontological Association
• Stephen Hubbell, plant biology researcher, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Bob Izlar, director of the University of Georgia Center for Forest Business, Society of American Foresters' Sir William Schlich Memorial Award
• Judith L. Meyer, professor emeritus, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Clean Water Act Hero in 2002, Award of Excellence in Benthic Science from the Society for Freshwater Science (formerly the North American Benthological Society), Naumann-Thienemann medal winner from the International Society of Limnology
• Eugene Odum, zoologist and groundbreaking pioneer in study of ecology, author of first textbook on the subject, deceased
• Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, chemist, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Monica Turner, scientist known for her work since 1988 on the fire that devastated Yellowstone National Park, brought about by one of the worst droughts in U.S history
• Susan R. Wessler, botanist and geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Ying Xu, bioinformatician, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science