Politics
- George F. Allen (CLAS '74, LAW '77)
- Former U.S. senator, former governor of Virginia
- Alben W. Barkley (Attended 1898)
- Vice President under Harry S. Truman
- B. Evan Bayh III (LAW '81)
- former Governor of Indiana and former U.S. Senator from Indiana
- Christopher S. Bond (LAW '63)
- former U.S. senator for Missouri
- John Bridgeland (LAW '87)
- Former director of the USA Freedom Corps, president and CEO Civic Enterprises.
- Mortimer M. Caplin (CLAS '37, LAW '40)
- Former commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, founding member of Caplin
- John Cornyn (LAW '95)
- U.S senator for Texas
- Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula (CLAS '43, GSAS '76)
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- J. Randy Forbes (LAW '77)
- U.S. Congressman, Fourth District of Virginia
- Julia Gibbons (CLAS '75)
- U.S. District Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
- James S. Gilmore III (CLAS '71, LAW '77)
- Former governor of Virginia and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- John Gleeson (LAW '80)
- Judge, U.S District Court, Eastern District of New York
- Jeannie Hong (CLAS '88)
- First Asian-Pacific American judge in the State of Maryland
- Robert L. Hutchings (CLAS '79)
- Chairman, National Intelligence Council
- Elaine R. Jones (LAW '70)
- Retired president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Brereton C. Jones (COMM '61)
- Former governor of Kentucky
- Edward M. Kennedy (LAW '59)
- Former U.S. senator for Massachusetts
- Robert F. Kennedy (LAW '51)
- Former U.S. senator for New York; former U.S. attorney general
- Author S. King Jr. (LAW '69)
- Former governor of Maine
- John Singleton Mosby (Attended 1853)
- Famous Confederate partisan
- Robert S. Mueller III (LAW '73)
- Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Janet Napolitano (LAW '83)
- Secretary of Homeland Security, former governor of Arizona
- John Nau (CLAS '68)
- Chairman, Federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Bill Nelson (LAW '68)
- U.S Senator for Florida and astronaut; flew on a mission aboard the Columbia space shuttle in 1988
- L.F. Payne (DARD '73)
- Former Virginia congressman, president of McGuire Woods Consulting
- Rebecca W. Rimel (NURS '73)
- President, Pew Charitable Trusts
- Charles S. Robb (LAW '73)
- Former U.S. senator and governor of Virginia, chairman of the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
- Larry J. Sabato (CLAS '74)
- Director and founder, Center for Politics; best-selling author, Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism
- Mark Sanford (DARD '88)
- Governor of South Carolina
- Hugh D. Scott (LAW '22)
- Former U.S. senator for Pennsylvania
- John Snow (GSAS '66)
- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- John C. Stennis (LAW '27)
- Former U.S. senator for Mississippi
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (CLAS '28)
- Secretary of the Interior, delegate to state secession convention, Committee of Nine member, Rector of the University (1874-1882)
- John V. Tunney (LAW '59)
- Former U.S. senator for California
- Lowell Weicker (LAW '58)
- Former U.S senator and Governor of Connecticut
- Woodrow Wilson (Attended 1879)
- Former U.S. President, founder of the League of Nations, Nobel Peace laureate.
- George T. Yates III (CLAS '70, LAW '73)
- 2002 recipient, French Legion d'Honneur
Business
- Alison H. Abraham (DARD '88)
- Co-founder and director of the Newton School; former president, Lifeminders, Inc.; former COO, iVillage, Inc.
- Frank Batten Sr. (CLAS '50)
- Chairman and CEO, Landmark Communications Inc.; benefactor, U.Va. Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
- James A. Bear Jr. (CLAS '43, GSAS '52)
- Former director, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
- Alfred R. Berkeley III (CLAS '66)
- Chairman of Pipeline Financial Group; Former president and vice chairman, NASDAQ
- Shelby Bonnie (COMM '86)
- CEO of Whiskey Media; former CEO, co-founder, CNET Inc.
- Daryl Brewster (CLAS '79)
- Former president and CEO, Krispy Kreme
- Charles L. Brown (SEAS '43)
- President and chairman/CEO of AT
- George David (DARD '67)
- Former chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corp.
- U Bertram Ellis Jr. (CLAS '75, DARD '79)
- President and CEO, Ellis Communications; former chairman and CEO, iXL Enterprises
- C. Thomas Faulders III (CLAS '71)
- Former chairman and CEO, LCC International, Inc.; president and CEO of the University Alumni Association
- Maria C. Freire (GSAS '81)
- President, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation; former president and CEO, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
- Samuel J. Goldwyn Jr. (CLAS '47)
- CEO, Samuel Goldwyn Co.; former president, MGM
- Lisa Hamilton (COMM '91)
- Vice President, UPS Public Relations; former president, the UPS Foundation
- Paul Tudor Jones (CLAS '76)
- Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investment Corp.
- Larry Killgallon (DARD '72)
- President and COO, Ohio Art Company
- Timothy Koogle (SEAS '73)
- Former president and CEO, Yahoo Inc.
- H. Eugene Lockhart Jr. (SEAS '72, DARD '74)
- Chairman of Financial Institutions Investments at Diamond Castle; former CEO Master Card International
- Jonathan Mariner (COMM '76)
- Executive vice president and CFO of Major League Baseball
- Halsey M. Minor (CLAS '87)
- CEO and chief executive of Net Publishers CNET Inc.
- Christopher Nassetta (COMM '84)
- President and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp.
- Alexis Ohanian (COMM '05)
- Founder of Breadpig, Inc; co-founder, reddit
- Charles T. Pepper (MED 1855)
- The original “Dr. Pepper.” The drink was named after him
- Chip Perry (SEAS '75, SEAS '76)
- Founder of Autotrader.com
- Peter Quick (SEAS '78)
- Former president, American Stock Exchange
- Julie Rasmussen (CLAS '87)
- President and founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics Russia
- Carl W. Smith (CLAS '51)
- Founder, Amvest Corporation
- Mark B. Templeton (DARD '78)
- President and CEO, Citrix Systems, Inc.
- James W. Thomas (DARD '79)
- Founder and CEO, Coastal Dominion; former COO and CFO, MapQuest
- David Verklin (CLAS '78)
- CEO, Canoe Ventures; former CEO, Carat North America
- Roger L. Werner Jr. (DARD '77)
- President, chief executive officer of Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc., and the Outdoor Channel
- A. Thomas Young (CLAS '61)
- Former president, Martin Marietta; executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp.
Health Care & Medicine
- S. Ward Casscells (MED '39)
- Orthopedic surgeon who revolutionized sports medicine by introducing arthroscopic surgery of the knee joint into the United States
- Leonard Malis (MED '43)
- Neurosurgeon, former chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and pioneer of microneurosurgery
- Vivian W. Pinn MD (MED '67)
- Associate director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health
- Walter Reed (MED 1869)
- Medical pioneer, discovered vaccine for yellow fever
- Denise Geolot Sherer (NURS '70, NURS '75)
- Director, Center for Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration
Entertainment
- Robert Aldrich (CLAS '41)
- Film producer
- Lewis M. Allen Jr. (CLAS '46)
- Broadway and film producer
- Coran Capshaw (CLAS '83)
- Manager of Dave Matthews Band; founder of Red Light Management; co-founder of ATO Records; CEO of Musictoday LLC
- Deidre Downs (CLAS '02)
- Miss America 2005
- Tina Fey (CLAS '92)
- Actress, former “Saturday Night Live” head writer; television producer
- Bob Gazzale (CLAS '87)
- President and CEO of the American Film Institute; Emmy-nominated television producer and writer
- Katherine "Kater" Gordon (CLAS '04)
- Emmy-winning television writer
- Laura Ingraham (LAW '91)
- Radio talk show host; author
- Mark Johnson (CLAS '71)
- Film producer
- Marc Lieberman (COMM '97)
- Co-founder of Cavalier Films
- Stephen J. Malkmus Jr. (CLAS '88)
- Indie-rock musician; lead singer of the band Pavement
- Benjamin McKenzie (CLAS '01)
- Television actor
- Andrew M. Scheinman (CLAS '70, LAW '73)
- Film producer
- Teddy Sears (COMM '99)
- Film actor
- Tom Shadyac (CLAS '80)
- Film director/producer
- Melissa Stark (CLAS '95)
- Reporter, ESPN, and ABC’s “Monday Night Football”
- Robert (Skipp) L. Sudduth IV (GSAS '85)
- Broadway, television, and film actor
- Sean Patrick Thomas (CLAS '92)
- Film actor
- Richard A. Tuggle (CLAS '70)
- Screenwriter
- Dylan (Charles) Walsh (CLAS '86)
- Actor
- Ann Hould Ward (CLAS '78)
- Tony Award winner for costume design
- Stanley Winston (CLAS '68)
- Motion picture special effects expert
- Paul J. Witt (CLAS '63)
- Film producer
Supreme Court
- Gene E. Franchini (LAW '95)
- Former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice
- Asher D. Grunis (LAW '72)
- Israeli Supreme Court Justice
- Leroy Rountree Hassell (CLAS '77)
- First African-American Chief Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
- John Charles Thomas (CLAS '72, LAW '75)
- First African-American Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
Science & Technology
- John Backus (Attended '42)
- Created FORTRAN, the first high-level programming language
- Jesse W. Beams Jr. (GSAS '25)
- World-renowned physicist
- Francis S. Collins MD, PhD (CLAS '70)
- Director, National Institutes of Health; former director, National Human Genome Research Institute
- Ruth Patrick (GSAS '31, GSAS '34)
- Leading biologist, first woman to chair board of Academy of Natural Sciences
- Edward Pickels (GSAS '33, GSAS '35)
- Inventor of the analytical ultracentrifuge
- William Wulf (SEAS '68)
- Former president of the National Academy of Engineering, former assistant director of National Science Foundation
Athletics
- Valerie B. Ackerman (CLAS '81)
- Former president Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)
- Jeff Agoos (COMM '91)
- Former soccer player with San Jose Earthquakes, and national champion D.C. United; played for the U.S. national team in 1988, 1998 and 2002
- Wyatt Allen (CLAS '01)
- 2004 Olympic gold medalist, men’s rowing
- Tiki Barber (COMM '96)
- Former running back, New York Giants
- Ronde Barber (COMM '96)
- Defensive back, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Heather Burge (CLAS '93)
- Former WNBA player, Sacramento Monarchs
- Heidi Burge (CLAS '93)
- Former WNBA player, Los Angeles Sparks and Washington Mystics
- Rick Carlisle (CLAS '84)
- Head coach of the Dallas Mavericks; former head coach, Indiana Pacers; former head coach, Detroit Pistons; NBA Coach of the Year 2001-02
- William M. Dudley (EDU '42)
- ”Bullet Bill” Dudley is the only Virginia player inducted to both the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame
- Paul Ereng (CLAS '93)
- 1988 Olympic gold medalist in track and field
- Tim Finchem (LAW '73)
- Commissioner and CEO, PGA
- Harrison Fitzgerald Flippin (CLAS '31, MED '33)
- World record holder in high hurdles, national pentathlon champion
- Albert (Al) Groh (COMM '66)
- Former head coach for University of Virginia football team; former head coach of the New York Jets
- Thomas Jones (CLAS '99)
- Running back, Kansas City Chiefs
- Bowie Kuhn (LAW '50)
- Former commissioner of Major League Baseball, 1969-84
- Chris Long (COMM '08)
- Defensive end, St. Louis Rams
- Heath Miller (CLAS '05)
- Tight end, Pittsburgh Steelers, Super Bowl champion 2006, 2008
- Lea Ann Parsley (NURS '92)
- Olympic silver medalist in skeleton, 2002
- Sonny Randle (EDU '59)
- Four-time all-pro player with St. Louis Cardinals; coached the Virginia Cavaliers from 1974-1975
- Eppa Rixey (CLAS 1914, GSAS '20)
- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Ralph L. Sampson Jr. (CLAS '83)
- Former NBA player; number one overall draft pick in the 1983 NBA draft
- Dawn Staley (CLAS '92)
- Three-time Olympic gold medalist, head coach women’s basketball, University of South Carolina
- Melanie Valerio (CLAS '91)
- 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 400-meter freestyle relay
- Walter "Wally" F. Walker (CLAS '76)
- Former president and general manager, Seattle Supersonics; led U.Va. to its only ACC title and its first NCAA Tournament
- Monica A. Wright (CLAS '10)
- Guard-forward of the WNBA Minnesota Lynx
- Karen E. Zacharias (COMM '01)
- Youngest woman to complete a marathon on seven continents
- Ryan Zimmerman (CLAS '05)
- Third baseman, Washington Nationals
Education
- Thomas Bachhuber (EDU '73)
- Director of the Career Development Center at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; author of five books, including The Best Graduate Business Schools
- John T. Casteen III (CLAS '65, GSAS '66, GSAS '70)
- Seventh president, University of Virginia
- Rabbi David Ellenson (GSAS '72)
- President, Hebrew Union College
- Wade Hampton Frost (CLAS 1901, MED 1903)
- Established the department of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and served as dean of the school
- Jerome P. Keuper (GSAS '52)
- Founder and president emeritus of Florida Institute of Technology
- Steven S. Reinemund (DARD '78)
- Dean of the Wake Forest University Schools of Business; former chairman of PepsiCo
Land, Sea, & Space
- Eric Anderson (SEAS '96)
- Co-founder, president and CEO of Space Adventures
- Richard E. Byrd (Attended 1908)
- Explorer
- Patrick G. Forrester (SEAS '89)
- NASA astronaut; flew on STS-105 Discovery (2001) and STS-117 Atlantis (2007), the 11th and 21st missions to the International Space Station
- William F. Halsey (Attended 1901)
- Former admiral, U.S. Navy
- Karl Heinze (CLAS '47, GSAS '48)
- Astronaut, flew on mission aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1985
- Michael Leinbach (ARCH '76)
- Shuttle launch director NASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center
- James McConnell (Attended 1907)
- One of the original seven pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille, World War I
- Leland Melvin (SEAS '91)
- NASA, associate administrator for education; Astronaut, flew two missions on Atlantis space shuttle (2008 and 2009); served as prime operator of the International Space Station’s robotic arm
- Greg Olsen (SEAS '71)
- Third private citizen to orbit the earth on the International Space Station (ISS)
- Kathryn Cordell Thornton (GSAS '79)
- Astronaut, flew on several missions aboard the space shuttles Discovery (1989) and Endeavour (1992, 1993); Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee (2010)
- Alexander Archer Vandegrift (CLAS 1909)
- Eighteenth commandant and the first four-star general of the U.S. Marine Corps; winner of the Distinguished Service Medal, Navy Cross, and Medal of Honor
- Peter J. Wisoff (CLAS '80)
- Astronaut, flew on missions aboard the Endeavour (1993 and 1994), Atlantis (1997), and the Discovery (2000)
News & Media
- Nancy Andrews (CLAS '86)
- Award-winning photo journalist/author, 1999 White House Photographer of the Year
- Wyatt G. Andrews (CLAS '74)
- CBS News Supreme Court correspondent
- Frederic W. Barnes Jr. (CLAS '65)
- Executive editor of The Weekly Standard, co-host of The Beltway Boys, and also regularly appears on Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume
- E. Thayer Bigelow Jr. (DARD '67)
- Director, Crane Co.; former president, Time Warner Cable; former president, HBO
- Margaret Brennan (CLAS '02)
- Writer and news anchor for Bloomberg Television show "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan".
- Whitney Casey (EDU '97)
- CNN correspondent and CNN Headline News anchor
- C. Shelby Coffey III (CLAS '68)
- Former president, CNN Business News and CNNfn; former editor, U.S. News
- Katherine A. Couric (CLAS '79)
- Katherine Anne Couric is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, cancer advocate and best-selling author. In September 2012, she becomes the host of a daily syndicated talk show, "Katie."
- Lane DeGregory (CLAS '89, GSAS '95)
- Pulitzer-prize winning journalist
- Kimberly Dozier (CLAS '93)
- Associated Press reporter
- Steve Huffman (SEAS '05)
- Co-founder of reddit, a social news website
- Brit Hume (CLAS '65)
- Senior political analyst, Fox News Network
- Sara James (CLAS '83)
- Correspondent, “Dateline NBC”
- Richard Lowry (CLAS '90)
- Editor, National Review
- Tyler Mathisen (CLAS '76)
- Co-anchor, CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” and vice president for Strategic Editorial Initiatives at CNBC
- George P. Rodrigue III (CLAS '78)
- Vice president/managing editor, The Dallas Morning News; two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient
- William F. Shortz (LAW '77)
- Crossword editor, New York Times; puzzlemaster, NPR “Weekend Edition”
- Joan M. Stapleton (CLAS '75)
- Former publisher, New Republic
- Jill Tietjen (SEAS '76)
- Co-author of Her Story: A Timeline of The Women Who Changed America
- Kristin van Ogtrop (CLAS '86)
- Managing editor, Real Simple magazine; former executive editor, Glamour magazine
- Bob Wright (LAW '68)
- Executive director, vice chairman of the board, General Electric, former chairman, NBC Universal
Arts & Literature
- Louis S. Auchincloss (LAW '41)
- Attorney; novelist and author of The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents
- David Baldacci (LAW '86)
- Novelist whose works include Absolute Power, Saving Faith, The Simple Truth, Deliver Us from Evil
- David Berman (CLAS '89)
- Poet and musician, author of Actual Air
- Paul Bowles (Attended '28)
- Author, The Sheltering Sky; composer
- Bruce Brandfon (CLAS '69)
- Vice president and publisher of Scientific American
- Erskine Caldwell (Attended '23, Attended '26)
- Novelist, Tobacco Road, God’s Little Acre
- Michael Cogswell (CLAS '83)
- Director, Louis Armstrong House and Archive; author of Louis Armstrong: the Offstage Story of Satchmo
- Claudia Emerson (CLAS '79)
- Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet; contributing editor of Shenandoah, the literary magazine Shenandoah
- Linda A. Fairstein (LAW '72)
- Former prosecutor and best-selling crime novelist; served as chief of the Sex Crime Prosecution Unit in the New York District Attorney’s office
- Lawton Fitt (DARD '79)
- Director, CIENA Corporation; and former director, the Royal Academy of Arts
- Julien Green (Attended 1919)
- Novelist; member, Academie Française
- Edward P. Jones (GSAS '81)
- Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist of The Known World
- N. Scott Momaday (LAW '59)
- Pulitzer Prize recipient; author of House Made of Dawn, The Bear
- Georgia O'Keeffe (Attended 1912)
- Renowned artist of American Modernism
- Edgar Allan Poe (Attended 1826)
- Writer of American gothic fiction
- Karl Shapiro (Attended '32)
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet; editor, Prairie Schooner
- Ron Suskind (CLAS '81)
- Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, A Hope in the Unseen, The Way of the World
- Henry S. Taylor (CLAS '65)
- Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Flying Change
International/Foreign Affairs
- Yasushi Akashi (GSAS '56)
- Former under-secretary-general, U.S. Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Hanan Ashrawi (GSAS '82)
- Founder and secretary general of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
- Fernando Bolivar (Attended '28)
- Venezuelan diplomat; U.Va.’s first Hispanic student
- William Lyons Brown Jr. (CLAS '58)
- Former U.S. ambassador to Austria
- Hasjim Djalal (LAW '59)
- Indonesian Ambassador to Germany and Canada.
- Edward E. Elson (CLAS '56)
- Former U.S. ambassador to Denmark; former rector of the University of Virginia
- William S. Farish III (CLAS '62)
- Former U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James
- Charlie Glazer (COMM '65)
- U.S. ambassador to El Salvador
- Michael Guest (GSAS '81)
- Former U.S. ambassador to Romania
- W. Nathaniel Howell (CLAS '61, GSAS '65)
- Former U.S. ambassador to Kuwait
- Alton G. Keel Jr. (SEAS '66, SEAS '70)
- Former U.S. ambassador to NATO
- Frederick E. Nolting Jr. (CLAS '33, GSAS '40, GSAS '42)
- Former ambassador to South Vietnam
- W. Robert Pearson (LAW '68)
- Director General, Foreign Service; director, Human Resources, U.S. Department of State; former U.S. ambassador to Turkey
- Javier Solana (GSAS '71)
- Former secretary general of NATO (1995-1999), current secretary general of the Council of the European Union
- E. Ashley Wills (CLAS '71)
- Former U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and to the Republic of Maldives; senior international business advisor at WilmerHale
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