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 '82)
- U.S. Senator, former Governor of Indiana
- Christopher S. Bond (LAW '63)
- 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. Deptua (CLAS '43, GSAS '76)
- Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- J. Randy Forbes (LAW '77)
- U.S. Congressman, Fourth District
- 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, Prosecutor John Gotti Trial.
- 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)
- 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
- John Nau (CLAS '68)
- Chairman, Federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Bill Nelson (LAW '68)
- U.S. Senator, Astronaut
- 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 2004, Chairman of the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
- Larry J. Sabato (CLAS '74)
- Director and founder, Center for Politics; best-selling author, Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism & American Politics.
- 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)
- Recipient, French Legion d'Honneur award in 2002
Business
- Alison H. Abraham (DARD '88)
- President, Lifeminders, Inc.; former COO, iVillage, Inc.
- Frank Batten Sr. (CLAS '50)
- Retired 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)
- Former President and Vice Chairman, NASDAQ
- Shelby Bonnie (COMM '86)
- Former CEO, co-founder, CNET Inc.
- Daryl Brewster (CLAS '79)
- President and CEO, Krispy Kreme
- Charles L. Brown (EE '43)
- President (1977-1979) and Chairman/CEO (1979-1986) of AT&T; Member, University of Virginia Board of Visitors (1986-1990).
- George David (DARD '67)
- Chairman & CEO, United Technologies Corp.
- U Bertram Ellis Jr. (CLAS '75, DARD '79)
- Chairman & CEO, iXL Enterprises
- C. Thomas Faulders III (CLAS '71)
- Former Chairman, CEO, LCC International, Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of the University Alumni Association.
- Maria C. Freire (GSAS '81)
- 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)
- President of the UPS Foundation
- Paul Tudor Jones (CLAS '76)
- President, Tudor Investment Corp.
- Martin Killgallon (DARD '72)
- CEO, Ohio Art Company a children's toy company that brought the Etch-A-Sketch among other toys.
- Timothy Koogle (MSE '73)
- Former President and CEO, Yahoo Inc.
- H. Eugene Lockhart Jr. (MSE '72, DARD '74)
- Director IMS Health, Inc., 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)
- Co-founder, Reddit
- Charles T. Pepper (MED 1855)
- The original "Dr. Pepper". The creator of Dr Pepper named the drink after Charles T. Pepper, the father of a girl he was in love with.
- Peter Quick (MSE '78)
- Former President, American Stock Exchange
- Julie Rasmussen (CLAS '87)
- President & founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics Russia
- Steven S. Reinemund (DARD '78)
- Director at Johnson & Johnson, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.
- Carl W. Smith (CLAS '51)
- Founder, Amvest Corporation
- Mark B. Templeton (DARD '78)
- President & CEO, Citrix Systems, Inc.
- James W. Thomas (DARD '79)
- Former COO & CFO, MapQuest
- David Verklin (CLAS '78)
- 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 U.S.
- Leonard Malis (MED '43)
- Neurosurgeon, former Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and pioneer of microneurosurgery.
- Vivian W. Pinn MD (MED '67)
- 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)
- Movie producer, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard
- Lewis M. Allen Jr. (CLAS '46)
- Broadway producer, Annie; film producer, Lord of the Flies
- Coran Capshaw (CLAS '83)
- Manager of Dave Matthews Band, 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; writes, executive-produces and stars as Liz Lemon in NBC's "30 Rock.
- Bob Gazzale (CLAS '87)
- President and CEO of the American Film Institute; Emmy-nominated TV producer and writer.
- Laura Ingraham (LAW '91)
- Radio Talk Show Host, Author Shut Up and Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics...and the UN are Subverting America
- Mark Johnson (CLAS '71)
- Movie producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Stephen J. Malkmus Jr. (CLAS '88)
- Indie-rock musician; Former lead singer of the band Pavement.
- Benjamin McKenzie (CLAS '01)
- Actor, The O.C
- Andrew M. Scheinman (CLAS '70, LAW '73)
- Movie producer, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride
- Teddy Sears (COMM '99)
- Actor, Raising the Bar, Firehouse Dog
- Tom Shadyac (CLAS '80)
- Movie director/producer, Patch Adams, Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty
- Melissa Stark (CLAS '95)
- Reporter, ESPN, and ABC's "Monday Night Football"
- Robert (Skipp) L. Sudduth IV (GSAS '85)
- Starred in Third Watch, an NBC television series, for six seasons, had roles in several films, and has stared on Broadway.
- Sean Patrick Thomas (CLAS '92)
- Actor, Save the Last Dance, Courage Under Fire, Barbershop
- Richard A. Tuggle (CLAS '70)
- Screenwriter, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope
- Dylan (Charles) Walsh (CLAS '86)
- Actor, Nip/Tuck
- Ann Hould Ward (CLAS '78)
- Tony Award winner for costume design, Beauty and the Beast
- Stanley Winston (CLAS '68)
- Motion picture special effects expert.
- Paul J. Witt (CLAS '63)
- Movie producer, Three Kings, Dead Poets Society; television 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 black Chief Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
- John Charles Thomas (CLAS '72, LAW '75)
- First African-American Justice, Va. Supreme Court. One of twelve African-Americans out of 1,400 students in 1968.
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 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
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 DC United. Played for the US National team in 1988, 1998 and 2002.
- Wyatt Allen (CLAS '01)
- 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist, Men's Rowing
- Tiki Barber (COMM '96)
- Retired 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, LA Sparks and Washington Mystics
- Rick Carlisle (CLAS '84)
- 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)
- Head coach for University of Virginia Football team. Former head coach of the New York Jets.
- Thomas Jones (CLAS '99)
- Running back, New York Jets
- Bowie Kuhn (LAW '50)
- Commissioner of Major League Baseball, 1969-84; presided over free agency rights and player strikes.
- Heath Miller (CLAS '05)
- Tight End, Pittsburgh Steelers, Super Bowl Winner 2006
- 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 U.Va. 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; After playing for the U.Va. Cavaliers he was a number one overall draft pick in the 1983 NBA draft.
- Dawn Staley (CLAS '92)
- Three-time Olympic gold medalist, Head coach, Temple University
- 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.
- Karen E. Zacharias (COMM '01)
- Youngest woman to complete a marathon on seven continents, Guinness Book of World Record
- Ryan Zimmerman (CLAS '05)
- Third Baseman, Washington Nationals
Education
- Thomas Bachhuber (EDU '73)
- Director of The Career Development Center at UWM, author of five books including The Best Graduate Business Schools.
- John T. Casteen III (CLAS '65, GSAS '66, GSAS '70)
- 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 John 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
Land, Sea, & Space
- Richard E. Byrd (Attended 1908)
- One of Antarctica's greatest explorers. On November 29, 1929, he became the first man to fly over both the North and South poles.
- Patrick G. Forrester (MSE '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 (MSE '91)
- Astronaut, Space Shuttle Crew Member. Served as prime operator of the International Space Station's robotic arm.
- Bill Nelson (LAW '68)
- U.S Senator and Astronaut. Flew on a mission aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle in 1988.
- Kathryn Cordell Thornton (GSAS '79)
- Astronaut, flew on several missions aboard the Discovery (1989) and Endeavour (1992, 1993) space shuttles.
- Alexander Archer Vandegrift (CLAS 1909)
- 18th Commandant and the first 4-star general of the US Marine Corps. Winner of 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 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
- Whitney Casey (EDU '97)
- CNN correspondent and an occasional CNN Headline News anchor
- C. Shelby Coffey III (CLAS '68)
- Former President, CNN Business News and CNNfn; former editor, U.S. News and Report, The Dallas Times Herald, and the Los Angeles Times
- Katherine A. Couric (CLAS '79)
- Anchor, CBS Nightly News. She has been co-anchor of NBC's "Today Show" from 1991 through 2006.
- Kimberly Dozier (CLAS '03)
- CBS Correspondent, Survivor of Bomb Attack in Iraq
- Brit Hume (CLAS '65)
- Anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume, Managing Editor Fox News
- Sara James (CLAS '83)
- Correspondent, "Dateline NBC"
- Richard Lowry (CLAS '90)
- Editor, National Review
- Tyler Mathisen (CLAS '76)
- Managing Editor of CNBC Business News and Host of CNBC High Net Worth
- George P. Rodrigue III (CLAS '78)
- VP/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
- Kristin van Ogtrop (CLAS '86)
- Managing Editor, Real Simple magazine in March 2003; Previously Executive Editor, Glamour magazine.
- Bob Wright (LAW '68)
- Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, GE Chairman, NBC Universal
Arts & Literature
- Louis S. Auchincloss (LAW '41)
- Attorney, novelist, The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents
- David Baldacci (LAW '86)
- Novelist, Absolute Power, Saving Faith, The Simple Truth
- David Berman (CLAS '89)
- Poet, Author, Actual Air
- Paul Bowles (Attended '28)
- Author, The Sheltering Sky; composer
- Bruce Brandfon (CLAS '69)
- VP 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 & Archive, Author Louis Armstrong: The offstage Story of Satchmo
- Claudia Emerson (CLAS '79)
- Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. She was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection "Late Wife" and has been a contributing editor of the literary magazine "Shenandoah."
- Linda A. Fairstein (LAW '72)
- Former prosecutor and best-selling crime novelist, served as Chief of the Sex Crime Persecution Unit in the NY Dist Attorney office.
- Lawton Fitt (DARD '79)
- Director, CIENA Corporation and Former Director, the Royal Academy of Arts
- Julien Green (Attended 1919)
- Novelist; member, Academie Francaise
- Edward P. Jones (GSAS '81)
- Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, The Known World
- N. Scott Momaday (LAW '59)
- Author, House Made of Dawn, The Bear; Pulitzer Prize recipient
- Georgia O'Keeffe (Attended 1912)
- Renowned artist of American Modernism. Introduced techniques that made her famous at a summer course taken at U.Va.
- Edgar Allan Poe (Attended 1826)
- Writer; Dropped out of U.Va. after a year having lost his tuition due to a gambling problem.
- Karl Shapiro (Attended '32)
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet; editor, Prairie Schooner
- Ron Suskind (CLAS '81)
- Author, The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, A Hope in the Unseen
- Henry S. Taylor (CLAS '65)
- Pulitzer Prize- winning Author, A Flying Change
International/Foreign Affairs
- Yasushi Akashi (GSAS '56)
- Former undersecretary, US 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)
- U.S. Ambassador to Austria
- Edward E. Elson (CLAS '56)
- Former Ambassador to Denmark
- William S. Farish III (CLAS '62)
- U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James
- Charlie Glazer (COMM '65)
- US Ambassador
- 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. (MSE '66, MSE '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 and Director, Human Resources U.S. Department of State
- Javier Solana (GSAS '71)
- Former Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999), current Secretary General of the Council of the EU.
- E. Ashley Wills (CLAS '71)
- U.S. Ambassador focuses on India and South Asia, Senior International Business Advisor at WilmerHale
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