List of University of Virginia people

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

Main category: University of Virginia alumni

Col stands for College of Arts and Sciences.

Academics and education

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
William Antholis	1986	Col	Director of UVA's Miller Center; former Managing Director Brookings; former White House and State Department staff
Donald J. Boudreaux	1992	Law	Professor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Claire-Marie Brisson	2021	Ph.D	Preceptor in French, Harvard University
William Yancey Brown	1969	Col	President of Bishop Museum, author and institutional leader
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	[1]
Douglas Day	1954	BA; MA,PhD English	author, William Faulkner scholar, Clifton Waller Professor of English and Comparative Languages at UVa
David Ellenson	1973	MA Religion	President Emeritus and Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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	[2]
Roger Harold Hull	1974	Law	President of Beloit College and Union College
Charles W. Kent	1882	Col	English professor at UVA
Gloria Cordes Larson	1976	Law	President of Bentley University
Helen Matthews Lewis	1949	Graduate	sociologist, historian, and activist
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	[3]
M. Elizabeth Magill	1995	Law	Dean of Stanford Law School
J. Hillis Miller Sr.	1928	Graduate	President of the University of Florida (1947–1953)
Blake Morant	1975, 1978	Col, Law	Dean of George Washington University Law School
Nick Morgan	1977, 1981	MA, PhD	Assistant Vice President and Provost, University of Virginia; professional at Princeton University	[4]: 229
Edward P. Ney	1946	Ph.D	Physicist and college professor who made major contributions to cosmic ray research and atmospheric physics	[5]
Marvin Banks Perry Jr.	1940	Col	President of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College
Harrison Randolph	1892	Graduate	President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945)
W. Taylor Reveley, III	1968	Law	President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School
William Craig Rice	1975	Col	President of Shimer College	[6]
Larry Sabato	1974	Col	Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
Alex Sanders	1990	Law	President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001)
Thomas A. Saunders III	1967	Darden	Chairman of The Heritage Foundation
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,
Robert Sitkoff	1996	Graduate	Professor at Harvard Law School
Valerie Smith	1978, 1982	Graduate	President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University	[7]
William G. Thomas III	1991, 1995	M.A., Ph.D	History professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow	[8]
Richard E. Wagner	1966	Ph.D	Professor emeritus of economics at George Mason University
John C. White	1998	Col	Louisiana Superintendent of Education	[9]
William Wulf	1966	Graduate	President of the National Academy of Engineering, designer of BLISS programming language

Art and architecture

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Robert Llewellyn	1968	Engineering Science	Photographer
Georgia O'Keeffe		Non-degreed	Painter
Nelson Saiers	1997, 1998	Col, Graduate	Artist and hedge fund manager

Business

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Lee Ainslie	1986	Col	founder and managing partner of Maverick Capital	[10]
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	[11]
Alfred Berkeley	1966	Col	President, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
John H. Bryan	1960	Darden	CEO and Chairman of Sara Lee
Algernon S. Buford	1850	Law	President, Richmond and Danville Railroad
W. Graham Claytor Jr.	1933	Col	President, Southern Railway and Amtrak; and U.S. Secretary of the Navy
George David	1967	Darden	Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation
William A. Hawkins	1982	Darden	CEO, Medtronic Corp.
Steve Huffman	2005	Engineering	Co-founder of Reddit
Bob Hugin	1985	Darden	Chair of Celgene
Mansoor Ijaz	1983	Col	Founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd
Paul Tudor Jones	1976	Col	President and founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and the Robin Hood Foundation
Stephen P. Joyce	1982	Comm	President and CEO of Choice Hotels as well as CEO of Dine Brands Global
Randal J. Kirk	1979	Law	Founder and Chairman, New River Pharmaceutical;	[12]
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	[13]
Halsey Minor	1987	Col	Co-founder and former CEO, CNET Inc.
Daniel Mudd	1980	Col	CEO, Fannie Mae
Tammy Murphy	1987	Col	Analyst, associate, and project lead at Goldman Sachs
William Nelson Page		Non-degreed	Co-founder of the Virginian Railway
Charlie Papazian	1972	BS Nuclear Engineering	founder of the Association of Brewers and the Great American Beer Festival,
Michelle Nunn	1989	Col	CEO, Points of Light and President of Care International USA
Alexis Ohanian	2005	Comm	Co-founder of Reddit
Steven Reinemund	1978	Darden	Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.
Mendel Rosenblum	1984	Col	Co-founder of VMware
Julio Mario Santo Domingo	1948	Col	Colombian businessman, billionaire
Sheridan Snyder	1958	Col	entrepreneur and philanthropist
Samuel Spencer	1868	Engineering	President, Southern Railway
Mark B. Templeton	1978	Darden	President and CEO, Citrix Systems
Jaffray Woodriff	1991	Comm	CEO and co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM)
Robert R. Young		Non-degreed	Chairman of the Board, C&O Railroad

Entertainment

David Berman

Margaret Brennan

Katie Couric

Laura Ingraham

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Robert Aldrich		Non-degreed	film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen
Will Anderson	2008	Col	lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute
Krystal Ball	2003	Col	Anchor on MSNBC's The Cycle
David Berman	1989	Col	Lead singer of indi-rock band Silver Jews
John Brenkus	1993	Col	Host, ESPN's Sports Science	[14]
Margaret Brennan	2002	Col	Bloomberg TV anchor, In Business with Margaret Brennan	[15]
Edward Brophy		Col	Actor
Coran Capshaw	1983	Col	founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys
Tom Cora		Col	avant-garde cellist and composer
Katie Couric	1979	Col	anchor of CBS Evening News; former host of NBC's The Today Show	[16]
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	[17]
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	[18]
Schuyler Fisk	2004	Col	singer/songwriter
Bob Gazzale	1987	Col	President, American Film Institute	[19][20]
Jason George	1994	Col	Actor
Brennan Gilmore	2001	Col	bluegrass musician
Richard Glatzer	1975	Graduate	film director, producer, writer, Still Alice, The Fluffer, and Quinceañera	[21]
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	[22]
Mark Johnson	1971	Col	film producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia; Academy Award recipient	[23]
Jen Lilley	2007	Col	actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Artist
Jessica Lynch	2000	Col	Miss New York 2003	[24]
Tyler Mathisen	1976	Col	co-anchor, Power Lunch; Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC	[25]
Rod MacDonald	1970	Col	singer/songwriter
Stephen Malkmus	1988	Col	lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement
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	[26]
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
Boyd Tinsley			violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave Matthews Band
Sean Patrick Thomas	1993	Col	actor
Dylan Walsh	1986	Col	actor, Nip/Tuck
Whitney Wegman-Wood		MFA	actress, Kung Fu Ghost; screenwriter, The Last Butterflies
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	[27][28]
Vern Yip	1990	Col	interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality	[29]
Sasheer Zamata	2006	Col	actor, Saturday Night Live

Government

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
Mortimer Caplin	1940	Law	Internal Revenue Service commissioner
James Laurence Cabell	1833		President of National Board of Health
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. American 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

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Nathan L. Bachman	1903	Law	Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court; U.S. Senator, Tennessee	[30]
Millard F. Caldwell	1924	Law	State Supreme Court Justice, Florida; Governor, U.S. Congressman	[31]
Ken Cuccinelli	1990	BS Mechanical Engineering	Attorney General of Virginia
Collins Denny Jr.	1924	Law	Pro-segregationist lawyer in Virginia	[32]
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	[33]
Howell Edmunds Jackson	1854	Graduate	Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee	[34]
Robert F. Kennedy	1951	Law	U.S. Senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General
Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.,	1988	Law	Missouri Supreme Court Justice
James Clark McReynolds	1884	Law	Justice, United States Supreme Court	[35]
Andy Oldham	2001	Col	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Ken Paxton	1991	Law	Attorney General of Texas
Stanley Forman Reed	1908	Law	Justice, United States Supreme Court; United States Solicitor General	[36]
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	[37]
Thomas Davis Ranson	1868	Law	Virginian lawyer and businessperson, veteran Capt. of the Confederate States Army serving under Gen. Stonewall Jackson	[38]
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

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
David Blight	2020	Col	Pulitzer Prize winner in history for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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
Claudia Emerson	1979	Col	2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Poet Laureate 2008 of Virginia
Emma Copley Eisenberg	2014	MFA	author of The Third Rainbow Girl
Linda Fairstein	1972	Law	prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan and 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	[39]
Ted Genoways	1999	MFA	Writer, journalist, author
Emily Giffin	1997	Law	chick lit author
W. Douglas Gordon	1898	Law	editor Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch
David M. Granger	1981	Graduate	editor-in-chief of Esquire	[40][41]
Julien Green	1922	Col	a 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	[42]
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 Finalist 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 the Silver Gavel Awards
Arthur D. Morse			print and television journalist, and 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	[43][44][45]
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
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[46]
Jenna Wortham,	2004	Col	author and journalist, culture writer at the New York Times, Black Futures

Medicine

Vivian Pinn

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, who introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States
Francis Collins	1970	Col	Director of the Human Genome Project and past director, National Institute of Health
Lisa L. Cunningham		Ph.D.	National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientific director,
Hugh S. Cumming	1893	Medicine	Surgeon General of the United States
David John Doukas	1975	Col	Clinical bioethics scholar, family physician
J. Hartwell Harrison	1932	Medicine	Pioneering kidney transplant surgeon
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 and discovered transmission of yellow fever
Beverly R. Wellford	1816	Graduate	Sixth president of the American Medical Association
Hugh H. Young	1891	Medicine	Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon

Military

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Fernando Bolivar			Venezuelan military, nephew of General Simon Bolivar
Richard E. Byrd		non-degreed	Naval officer, pioneering American aviator, polar explorer	[47]
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			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	1908	Col	Commandant of the Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient

Politics

Michael Signer

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Yasushi Akashi	1956	Graduate	Chairman, International House of Japan; former Undersecretary of the United Nations	[48][49]
George Allen	1974, 1977	Col, Law	Governor and U.S. Senator, Virginia	[50]
Hanan Ashrawi	1982	Graduate	Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process	[51]
Nathan L. Bachman	1903	Law	U.S. Senator, Tennessee; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court	[30]
Alben W. Barkley	1900	Law	35th Vice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator, Kentucky	[52]
Evan Bayh	1981	Law	U.S. Senator and Governor, Indiana	[53]
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	[31]
Greg Casar	2012	Col	U.S. Congressman, Texas
James Paul Clarke	1878	Law	United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas	[54][55]
John Cornyn	1995	Law	U.S. Senator, Texas
Joseph T. Curry			member of the Louisiana House of Representatives	[56]
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	[57][58][59][60]
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	[61]
William Meade Fishback	1855	Law	17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator, Arkansas	[62]
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	[63]
Barbara Halliday			Mayor of Hayward, California
Mark Herring	1986	Graduate	Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia	[33]
Yan Huiqing	1900	Col	Premier and Prime Minister of the Republic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Chinese Representative in the League of Nations	[64]
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 LouisianaUnited 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	[65]
Bill Nelson	1968	Law	U.S. Senator, Florida; NASA astronaut
Kirstjen Nielsen	1999	Law	6th Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security	[66]
Longin Pastusiak	1959	Graduate	Marshall of the Senate, Poland
Thomas Caute Reynolds	1838	Law	11th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri; Governor of Missouri (Confederate)	[67]
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
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	[68]
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
Richard B. Spencer	2001	Col	Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, President and director of the National Policy Institute[69]
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	[70]
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
Abigail Spangberger	2001	Col	U.S. Congresswoman, Virginia	[71]

Religion

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

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	[72]
Matthew P. Hardy	1985	Ph.D.Biology	Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function	[73]
Karl G. Henize	1947, 1948	Col, Graduate	Astronomer; NASA astronaut	[72]
Thomas Marshburn	1984	Engineering	NASA astronaut	[72]
Janet Akyüz Mattei	1972	Graduate	astronomer; director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Leland Melvin	1991	Engineering	NASA astronaut	[72]
Bill Nelson	1968	Law	NASA astronaut; U.S. Senator, Florida	[72]
Edward P. Ney	1946	Ph.D	astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei
Haller Nutt		Non-degreed	Developer of the Egypto-Mexican cotton hybrid
Charles Pollard Olivier	1911	Graduate	astronomer; founder, American Meteor Society
Gregory Olsen	1971	Graduate	third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station	[72]
Phil Plait	1994	Graduate	author of Bad Astronomy and Bad Astronomy blog
Kathryn C. Thornton	1977, 1979	Graduate	NASA astronaut	[72]
Ann M. Valentine	1993	BS	inorganic chemist
Alexander N. Vyssotsky	1927	Graduate	Astronomer; cataloged Milky Way M dwarf stars
Thomas W. Whitaker	1929, 1931	MS, Ph.D	Botanist and horticulturist
Jeff Wisoff	1980	Col	NASA astronaut; engineering professor at Rice University	[72]
Ralph Elmer Wilson	1910	Graduate	Astronomer; Wilson crater on the Moon was co-named after him
Carl A. Wirtanen	1939	Graduate	Astronomer; discovered a number of asteroids and comets
Wesley L Harris	1964	Engineering	Professor at MIT; Vice President of National Academy of Engineering	[74]

Sports

Jeff Agoos

Ronde Barber

Tiki Barber

Jake Gelof

Zack Gelof

Ralph Sampson

Name	Class	School or degree	Notability	References
Val Ackerman	1981	Col	Founder and former president of WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference
Jeff Agoos	1990		Swiss–born American soccer defender
Cory Alexander	1995	Col	Professional basketball player with the NBA	[75]
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	[76]
Tiki Barber	1997	Communication	Professional football player with the New York Giants; current sportscaster
Morgan Gautrat	2014		Professional soccer player and member of the US Women's National Soccer Team
Malcolm Brogdon	2016		Professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards	[77]
Heather Burge			Professional basketball player with the WNBA	[78]
Heidi Burge	1993	Col	Professional basketball player with the WNBA	[78]
Chris Canty	2004	Col	Professional football player	[79]
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
Bill Dudley	1942	Education	Professional football player and NFL Hall of Fame
Mamadi Diakite	2020		Professional basketball player	[80]
Daryl Dike			Professional soccer player and U.S. men's national team player
Jeffrey Eggleston	2007		long-distance runner
Carlton Elliott			Professional football layer with the Green Bay Packers
Alecko Eskandarian		Col	Major League Soccer #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team
Paul Ereng	1993	Col	1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters
D'Brickashaw Ferguson	2006	Col	Professional football player with the New York Jets
Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.			Professional basketball player	[81]
Tim Finchem	1973		Commissioner of the PGA Tour
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	[82]
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	[83]
DeAndre Hunter			Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks	[84]
Adam Haseley			Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox
Ty Jerome			Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns	[85]
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	[86]
Melanie Kok			2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing
Joe Koshansky			Professional baseball player
Bowie Kuhn	1950	Law	former Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Jeff Lamp			Professional basketball player
Noel LaMontagne			Professional football player
Sylven Landesberg			Professional basketball player
Lesley Lehane			Winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country in 1982	[87]
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	[88]
Ed Moses	2004	Education	Olympic gold medalist in swimming
Trey Murphy III			Professional basketball player	[89]
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
Chris Rotelli,	2003		Professional lacrosse player
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
Jake Rozhansky			Professional soccer player
Ralph Sampson	1983	Col	NBA #1 draft pick, professional basketball player, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame	[90]
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
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

• Marial Shayok (born 1995), basketball player in the NBA and the Israeli Premier Basketball League

Other

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	[91]
Otto Warmbier			College student imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion

Notable faculty and staff

Main category: University of Virginia faculty

Jennifer Lawless

Larycia Hawkins

David Joran with President Ronald Reagan

Alfred G. Gilman

Barry Marshall

Ferid Murad

Edward Purdy

William B. Quandt

Larry Sabato

Antonin Scalia

Jerry White

Name	Field	UVA position	Notability	References
Henry J. Abraham	Political Science	James Hart Professor of Government	scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law	[92]
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;
Silvia Blemker	Biomedical Engineering	Professor	Professor of biomechanical engineering and also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Springbok Analytics
Julian Bond	History	Professor	Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; co-founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center
John Bonvllian	Psychology	Associate professor	Pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication	[93]
Anna Brickhouse	American Studies	Department director
James M. Buchanan	Economics		Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986
Lester J. Cappon	History	Archivist and professor	Archivist for Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
Meredith Clark	Media Studies	Assistant professor	Expert on Black Twitter
Ronald Coase	Economics		Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991	[94]
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		[95]
William Faulkner	English	Writer in residence	Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962	[96]
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		[97]
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	[98]
Thomas M. Humphrey	Economy		Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Milton W. Humphreys	Latin and Greek	Professor
Patricia Jennings	Education	Professor
David C. Jordan	Political Science	Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics	United States Ambassador to Peru	[99]
Robert S. Kemp	Business	Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce		[100]
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		[101]
Angeline Stoll Lillard	Psychology	Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor		[102]
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	Biochemstiry, 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	[5]
Brian Nosek	Psychology	Professor		[103]
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	[104]
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	[105]
William Barton Rogers	Philosophy	Department head and faculty	Founded MIT and became its first president
Richard Rorty	Philosophy	Kenan Professor of Humanities	influential writer	[106]
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	[107]
James D. Savage	Political Science	Professor of politics; Faculty Affiliate of the Batten School	Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy	[108]
Antonin Scalia	Law	Professor	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[109]
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	[110]
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	[111]
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	[112]
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	[113]
Bruce A. Williams	Media Studies	Professor of Media Studies
Stephen K. White	Political Science	James Hart Professor of Politics		[114]
Daniel T. Willingham	Psychology	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies	Specialist in cognition related to K –12 education	[115]
Timothy Wilson	Psychology	Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology	Author of popular books	[116]
Tibor Wlassics	Italian	Kenan Professor of Italian Studies	Research on the poet Dante Alighieri	[117]
Brantly Womack	Political Science	Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs		[118]

Rectors and members of the board of visitors

• Thomas Jefferson – Rector (1819–1826)^[119][120]
• James Madison – Rector (1826–1836)^[121]
• James Monroe – Board of Visitors (^[122]
• Joseph Carrington Cabell – Rector (1834–1836 & 1845–1856)
• Chapman Johnson – Rector (1836–1845)^{[clarification needed]}
• Andrew Stevenson – Rector (1856–1857)^[123]
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph – Rector (1857–1864)^[124]
• 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)^[125]
• C. Harding Walker – Rector (1922–1930)
• Edward R. Stettinius Jr. – Rector (1946–1949)^[126]
• Albert Vickers Bryan – Rector (1960–1964)
• D. French Slaughter Jr. – Rector (1980–1982)^[127]
• Fred G. Pollard – Rector (1982–1987)
• Edward Elliott Elson – Rector (1990–1992)
• Helen Dragas – Rector (2011–2013)^[128]
• Whittington W. Clement – Rector (2021 –2023)

See also

• List of University of Virginia Law School alumni