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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public university research university located in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning....
 has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty.






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  • Bill Anderson
    Bill Anderson (country music)

    James William Anderson III is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television personality. In his career, he has released more than forty studio albums, and has reached Number One on the country charts seven times: "Mama Sang a Song" , "Still" , "I Get the Fever" , "For Loving You" , "My Life " , "World of Make Believe" , and "...
    , Country musician and songwriter
  • Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger

    'Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger' is an United States film actor and former fashion model.She won multiple best supporting actress awards for her role in the 1997 film L.A....
    , actress
  • John Bell
    John Bell (musician)

    John Farmer Bell is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the southern rock band Widespread Panic. He is frequently called "JB" by fans.Bell grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from University School in 1980....
    , lead singer for band Widespread Panic
    Widespread Panic

    Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
  • Alton Brown
    Alton Brown

    Alton Crawford Walter Brown is an American food personality, cinematographer, author, aircraft pilot, and actor. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the main commentator on Iron Chef America....
    , host of Good Eats
    Good Eats

    Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown that airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr....
  • Brian Burton, (Danger Mouse), musician DangerDoom
    DANGERDOOM

    Danger Doom is a musical collaboration between Disc jockey and record producer Danger Mouse and rapper Daniel Dumile. Their first album, The Mouse and the Mask, was released in 2005, and followed by the Occult Hymn EP....
    , Gnarls Barkley
    Gnarls Barkley

    Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy award winning United States musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and record producer Danger Mouse from New York, and rapper/lead singer Cee-Lo Green , from Atlanta....
  • Mike Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner
    Homestar Runner

    Homestar Runner is a Flash animation Internet Animation. It mixes surreal humor with references to 1970s, '80s, and '90s pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music....
  • Maria Burgos Chavez, noted sculptor and artist
  • Peter Conlon, music promoter
  • Tiffany Dupont
    Tiffany Dupont

    Tiffany Dupont is an United States actor, known for playing the lead character, Hadassah, a Jewish girl, who will become the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia, in the Hollywood film One Night with the King....
    , actress, most known for roles in One Night with the King
    One Night with the King

    One Night with the King is a film that was released in 2006 in film in the United States.The film follows the plot of the novel "Esther" by Nathaniel Weinreb, including direct quotes and events from the book, although the film is officially based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen....
     and Greek
    Greek (TV series)

    Greek is an United States teen comedy-drama television series which airs on the ABC Family network, the UK BBC Three network, the Australian pay-TV network FOX8, and on the TV2 channel in New Zealand....
  • Bobbie Eakes
    Bobbie Eakes

    Bobbie Diane Eakes is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. She is best known for her roles as Macy Alexander Sharpe on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, and as Krystal Carey on the American Broadcasting Company soap opera All My Children....
    , soap opera actress and singer
  • Glenn Gilberti
    Glenn Gilberti

    Glenn Gilberti is an American Professional wrestling, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as Disco Inferno....
    , professional wrestler
  • Bill Goldberg
    Bill Goldberg

    William Scott Goldberg better known by his ring name Bill Goldberg , is an American Professional wrestling best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling from September 1997 to January 2001....
    , professional football player, professional wrestler and actor
  • Lewis Grizzard
    Lewis Grizzard

    'Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr.' was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the U.S. Southern states. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous column in the At...
    , humorist
  • Colleen Haskell
    Colleen Haskell

    Colleen Marie Haskell was a contestant on the first season of the United States reality show Survivor: Borneo. She was born in Bethesda, Maryland to John and Patricia Haskell....
    , former reality show contestant and actress
  • Josh Holloway
    Josh Holloway

    Joshua Lee Holloway, , in San Jose, California is an United States actor best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on American Broadcasting Company Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning show Lost ....
    , actor
  • Michael Houser
    Michael Houser

    Michael Houser was the lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic.Houser was born in Boone, North Carolina, North Carolina, graduated from Hixson High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and became a founding member of Widespread Panic in 1982 while attending the University of Georgia with John Bell....
    , former lead guitar player and vocalist for Widespread Panic
    Widespread Panic

    Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
  • Raymond Hughes, chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera
    Metropolitan Opera

    The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
  • Parker Gispert
    Parker Gispert

    Parker Gispert is the lead singer of The Whigs. He is a native of Atlanta, Georgia , a 2001 graduate of The Westminster Schools, and a 2006 graduate of the University of Georgia....
    , lead singer for the band, The Whigs
    The Whigs

    The Whigs are a garage rock band from Athens, Georgia, Georgia ....
  • Wayne Knight
    Wayne Knight

    Wayne Knight is an United States Comedian actor, perhaps best known for his role as Newman in the television situation comedy Seinfeld. His other prominent roles include Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park , List of Toy Story characters#Al in Toy Story 2, Tantor in Tarzan , Don Orville in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Stan Podolak...
    , actor "Newman
    Newman (Seinfeld)

    Newman is a recurring character on the television show Seinfeld, played by Wayne Knight from 1991 until the show's finale in 1998....
    " from Seinfeld
    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
  • Kate Michael
    Kate Michael

    Kate Michael, from Lilburn, Georgia, holds the Miss District of Columbia 2006 title. Michael succeeded Shannon Schambeau as Miss D.C. on July 1, 2006 and also competed in the Miss America 2007 pageant held January 29, 2007....
    , Miss District of Columbia
    Miss District of Columbia

    The Miss District of Columbia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the District of Columbia in the Miss America pageant....
     2006
  • Charlie Minor, Music Promoter and Record Executive
  • Cyd Moore, children's book illustrator
  • Fred Newman
    Fred Newman (actor)

    Fred Newman is an United States actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, as well as a former talk show host.An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Newman soon capitalized on his unique vocalizations, writing the book MouthSounds ....
    , voice actor, composer - sound effects artist on A Prairie Home Companion
    A Prairie Home Companion

    A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs two hours on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m....
  • Waco O'Guin, actor and producer of MTV
    MTV

    MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
    's Stankervision
    Stankervision

    Stankervision was a sketch-comedy program, created by Waco O'Guin and Roger Black, that aired on MTV2. It premiered July 8 2005 as part of the channel's "Sic 'Em Friday" programming block....
     and The DAMN! Show
    The DAMN! Show

    The DAMN! Show is a sketch comedy/variety program created in Athens, Georgia. The show was created by Waco O'Guin, Lee Sanders and Matt Chastain in 1998....
  • Pylon
    Pylon (band)

    Pylon is a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA. Their most important work was done between 1979 and 1983. They were highly influential among New Wave music bands....
    , post-punk
    Post-punk

    Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
     band; all four members attended the university: Vanessa Briscoe Hay
    Vanessa Briscoe Hay

    Vanessa Briscoe Hay is an United States singer for the Athens, Georgia bands Pylon and Supercluster ....
    , Randall Bewley
    Randall Bewley

    Randall "Randy" Bewley was the guitarist for the Athens, Georgia band Pylon . Born in Bradenton, Florida, United States. He lived in Sarasota, Florida, Washington, DC and near Atlanta, Georgia while growing up....
    , Curtis Crowe
    Curtis Crowe

    Curtis Crowe is the drummer for the Athens, Georgia rock band Pylon . He is a native of Marietta, Georgia and is the middle of five children. Curtis moved to Athens to attend the University of Georgia art school....
    , and Michael Lachowski
    Michael Lachowski

    Michael Lachowski is the bass guitar player for Pylon , a band from Athens, Georgia. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and attended the University of Georgia art school where he got a degree in photographic design....
    .
  • R.E.M., popular alternative rock
    Alternative rock

    Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
     band; all four members attended the university: Michael Stipe
    Michael Stipe

    John Michael Stipe is an United States singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surrealism lyrics, as well as his social and political activism....
    , Peter Buck
    Peter Buck

    Peter Lawrence Buck is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M.....
    , Mike Mills
    Mike Mills

    Michael Edward Mills is the bass guitar player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist, piano player and background singer, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, guitar, string, wind and percussion instruments....
    , and Bill Berry
    Bill Berry

    William "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer....
    .
  • Pandora Peaks
    Pandora Peaks

    Pandora Peaks is a retired United States adult model, porn star and stripper. She has posed for over 100 men's magazines such as Playboy, Score , and Gent ....
    , former adult model and actress.
  • Ryan Seacrest
    Ryan Seacrest

    Ryan John Seacrest is an Emmy Award-nominated United States media personality, television producer and entrepreneur. A longtime broadcaster, Seacrest gained fame as host of the Fox Broadcasting Company Reality_competition#Elimination.2FGame_shows American Idol....
    , American Idol
    American Idol

    American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
     host
  • Dave Schools
    Dave Schools

    Dave Schools is the bassist for the band Widespread Panic, and hails from Richmond, Virginia. In addition to Panic, he has had numerous side projects with Jerry Joseph, Stockholm Syndrome , J Mascis and the Fog, Slang, and Acetate....
    , Bass player and vocalist for Widespread Panic
    Widespread Panic

    Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
  • Sonny Shroyer
    Sonny Shroyer

    Otis Burt "Sonny" Shroyer, Jr. is an United States actor who has appeared in various television and movie roles. He is best known for his role as Sheriff#United_States Enos Strate in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard....
    , actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Forrest Gump, Ray)
  • Corey Smith
    Corey Smith

    Corey Dominique Smith is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2002....
    , musician, teacher
  • Andrew Speaker, Carrier of a rare form of TB. Nicknamed "TB Andy"
  • Joey Stinson
    Joey Stinson

    Joe Stinson is an United States actor. He is best known for his roles in films Now and Then , Tom and Huck, and his voiceover work in the Nickelodeon animated Television program Hey Arnold!....
    , actor
  • Charles Wadsworth
    Charles Wadsworth

    Charles Wadsworth is a European classical music pianist and musical promoter. In 1960, he gained international renown by originating the Midday Concerts at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto....
    , classical pianist and composer
  • Stuart Woods
    Stuart Woods

    Stuart Woods is an United States novelist. ...
    , novelist


Athletics

(In alphabetical order)
  • Shandon Anderson
    Shandon Anderson

    Shandon Rodriguez Anderson is an United States professional sports basketball player in the NBA, currently a free agent who most recently played with the Miami Heat....
    , NBA
  • Boss Bailey
    Boss Bailey

    Rodney "Boss" Bailey is an American football linebacker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft....
    , NFL linebacker for the Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  • Champ Bailey
    Champ Bailey

    Roland "Champ" Bailey is an American football player, starting at cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. His mother nicknamed him "Champ" at an early age....
    , NFL cornerback for the Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  • Chip Beck
    Chip Beck

    Charles Henry "Chip" Beck is an United States golfer who was a three time All-American at the University of Georgia. He has four victories on the PGA Tour and twenty runner-up finishes....
    , player on the PGA Tour
    PGA Tour

    The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
  • Kendrell Bell
    Kendrell Bell

    Kendrell Alexander Bell is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft....
    , NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs
    Kansas City Chiefs

    The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs are a member of the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Kim Black
    Kim Black

    Kimberly A. Black is an American swimmer from Syracuse, New York.Black began her collegiate career at the University of Southern California, where she competed alongside future fellow Olympians such as Lindsay Benko, before transfering to the University of Georgia in 1999....
    , Olympic
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year
    NCAA Woman of the Year Award

    The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was created to honor a senior female student-athlete who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership....
     in 2001
  • Kara Braxton
    Kara Braxton

    Kara Liana Braxton is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Shock in the Women's National Basketball Association. A solid talent, she is also known for her troubles on and off the court....
    , WNBA forward for the Detroit Shock
    Detroit Shock

    The Detroit Shock is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Detroit, Michigan. They were the 2008 WNBA champions.Debuting in 1998, they were one of the league's first expansion franchises....
  • Reggie Brown, NFL wide-receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles

    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. They are members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Quincy Carter
    Quincy Carter

    Lavonya Quintelle "Quincy" Carter is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was selected in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys....
    , NFL quarterback
    Quarterback

    Quarterback is a position in American football and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center , in the middle of the Lineman ....
  • Ian Conlon, former striker
    Striker

    Forwards, also known as attackers and strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals....
     for the U.S. National Paralympic Soccer Team
  • Lisa Coole
    Lisa Coole

    Lisa Ann Coole was a 1997 graduate of the University of Georgia who was named the NCAA Woman of the Year Award for 1997 and was also awarded the Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the List of Recipients of Today's Top VIII Award#Today's Top VIII Award ....
    , swimmer, NCAA Woman of the Year
    NCAA Woman of the Year Award

    The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was created to honor a senior female student-athlete who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership....
     in 1997
  • Terrell Davis
    Terrell Davis

    Terrell Lamar Davis is a former American football running back who played for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League from 1995 NFL season to 2001 NFL season....
    , former NFL running back for the Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  • Pat Dye
    Pat Dye

    Patrick Fain Dye is a former United States College football American football coach most notable for his tenure as the head coach at Auburn University from 1981 until 1992....
    , athletic director and football head coach at Auburn University
    Auburn University

    Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, Alabama, United States With more than 24,100 students and 1,200 faculty, it is one of the largest university in the state....
     (1981-1992)
  • Teresa Edwards
    Teresa Edwards

    Teresa Edwards is a retired American basketball player. In 2000, Sports Illustrated magazine placed her as 22nd of the "100 Greatest Female Athletes of the 20th Century"....
    , basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     player in the Olympics
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
    , the ABL, and the WNBA
  • Ken Farmer
    Ken Farmer

    Kenneth William George "Ken" Farmer was an Australian rules football player in the South Australian National Football League during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s....
    , footall, kicker/punter. Injury ended career in 1986
  • Vern Fleming
    Vern Fleming

    Vern Fleming is a former professional basketball player in the NBA who played twelve seasons from 1984 until 1996. Fleming grew up in the Queensbridge Housing projects in Long Island City, New York....
    , NBA player, taken 18th in the 1984 NBA draft
  • La'Keshia Frett
    La'Keshia Frett

    La'Keshia Frett is a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She is currently an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Georgia....
    , basketball player in the WNBA
  • Vicki Goetze
    Vicki Goetze

    Vicki Goetze-Ackerman is an United States golfing champion. Living in Hull, Georgia, she was voted "Player of the Year" from 1988 to 1990 by the American Junior Golf Association....
    , player on the LPGA Tour
  • Bill Goldberg
    Bill Goldberg

    William Scott Goldberg better known by his ring name Bill Goldberg , is an American Professional wrestling best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling from September 1997 to January 2001....
    , wrestler in WCW
    World Championship Wrestling

    World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
     and WWE
    World Wrestling Entertainment

    World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated arts and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales....
  • Charles Grant
    Charles Grant (American football)

    Charles Gabriel Grant is an American football player who currently plays defensive end for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League....
    , NFL defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints

    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • David Greene
    David Greene

    David Norman Greene is a former American football quarterback of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft....
    , all time winningest college football quarterback, drafted in 2005 by the Seattle Seahawks
    Seattle Seahawks

    The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Forrest Griffin
    Forrest Griffin

    Forrest Griffin is an United States mixed martial artist currently fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion and a former UFC Light Heavyweight Championship....
    , American mixed-martial artist currently competing in the UFC
    Ultimate Fighting Championship

    Ultimate Fighting Championship is a United States-based mixed martial arts organization, currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world....
  • Verron Haynes
    Verron Haynes

    Verron Ulric Haynes is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft....
    , NFL running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
  • Jarvis Hayes
    Jarvis Hayes

    Jarvis James Hayes is an United States professional basketball player currently with the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. A 6'8", 220 lbs. small forward from the University of Georgia and Western Carolina University, Hayes was selected by the Washington Wizards with the 10th overall pick of the 2003 NBA Draft....
    , NBA 1st round pick (10th overall) Washington Wizards
    Washington Wizards

    The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. They play in the National Basketball Association ....
  • Garrison Hearst
    Garrison Hearst

    Gerald Garrison Hearst is a former NFL running back who last played for the NFL's Denver Broncos in 2004. He had previously played for the Phoenix and Arizona Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, and San Francisco 49ers....
    , former NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals
    Arizona Cardinals

    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American Football team based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals are members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , San Francisco 49ers
    San Francisco 49ers

    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in , while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California....
    , Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
    )
  • Terry Hoage
    Terry Hoage

    Terrell Lee "Terry" Hoage is a former American football defensive back for the University of Georgia from 1980 ? 1983 and several National Football League teams....
    , former NFL defensive back for six NFL teams over 13 seasons
  • Reese Hoffa
    Reese Hoffa

    Reese Hoffa is an United States shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2007, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m indoor and 22.43 m outdoor....
    , shot putter ranked #1 in the world
  • Buckshot Jones
    Buckshot Jones

    Roy "Buckshot" Jones , is an auto racing driver who has competed in NASCAR and Sprint car racing. He currently runs in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series....
    , stock-car driver, two-time winner in the NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
     Busch Series
    Busch Series

    The NASCAR Nationwide Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's "minor league" circuit , and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's "big league" circuit, the Sprint Cup....
  • Alec Kessler
    Alec Kessler

    Alec Christopher Kessler was an United States college basketball player for the University of Georgia and later, as a professional, for the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association....
    , NBA 1st round pick (12th overall) Miami Heat
    Miami Heat

    The Miami Heat is a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ....
  • Kristy Kowal
    Kristy Kowal

    Kristina Ann Kowal is a swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
    , 2000 Olympic
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     Silver medalist, swimming, NCAA Woman of the Year
    NCAA Woman of the Year Award

    The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was created to honor a senior female student-athlete who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership....
     in 2000
  • Franklin Langham
    Franklin Langham

    Franklin Langham is an United States professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour in 1996, 1998-2002 and 2005 and on the Nationwide Tour in 1993-95, 1997, 2003-04 and since 2006....
    , player on the PGA Tour
    PGA Tour

    The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
  • Tommy Lyons
    Thomas Lewis Lyons

    Thomas Lewis "Tommy" Lyons was an American football player for the University of Georgia and the Denver Broncos. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1971 and was selected 14th round of the 1971 National Football League draft....
    , former NFL offensive lineman for the Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos

    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. They are currently a member of the American Football Conference AFC West in the National Football League ....
  • Randy McMichael
    Randy McMichael

    Randy Montez McMichael is an American football tight end for the St Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft....
    , NFL tight-end for the St. Louis Rams
    St. Louis Rams

    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Bob McWhorter
    Bob McWhorter

    Robert Ligon "Bob" McWhorter played American football and baseball at the University of Georgia. As a running back, he scored 61 touchdowns from 1910 to 1913....
    , football and baseball, Georgia's first All-America
    All-America

    An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American Sportspersons....
    n
  • Mikael Pernfors
    Mikael Pernfors

    Mikael Pernfors is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at the French Open in 1986....
    , tennis pro, twice NCAA champion, runner-up in 1986 French Open Grand Slam Championship.
  • Billy Payne
    William Porter Payne

    William Porter "Billy" Payne was named president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games .Early Life...
    , president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
  • David Pollack
    David Pollack

    David M. Pollack , is a former American football linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was originally drafted 17th overall by the Bengals in the 2005 NFL Draft....
    , 3-time football All-America
    All-America

    An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American Sportspersons....
    n, drafted in 2005 by the Cincinnati Bengals
    Cincinnati Bengals

    The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. It is currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • John Rauch
    John Rauch

    John "Johnny" Rauch was an American football player and coach....
    , NFL creator of the West Coast offense
    West Coast offense

    In American football, "West Coast Offense" is one of two similar but distinct offensive-strategic-systems of play: the "Air Coryell" system; or more commonly the pass play system popularized by Bill Walsh ....
    , former Coach of the Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders

    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Saudia Roundtree
    Saudia Roundtree

    Saudia Roundtree is a basketball coach, and also a former star player. She began her collegiate career at Kilgore College, where she captured National Junior College Player of the Year honors in 1994....
    , Naismith College Player of the Year
    Naismith College Player of the Year

    The Naismith College Player of the Year award, named for basketball inventor James Naismith, is given annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to college basketball's top male and female player....
     in 1996
  • Theron Sapp
    Theron Sapp

    Theron Coleman Sapp, nicknamed Thundering Theron and the Drought-Breaker, is a former American football running back for the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League....
    , NFL runningback for the Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles

    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. They are members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     and Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
  • Richard Seymour
    Richard Seymour

    Richard Vershaun Seymour is an American football defensive lineman for the New England Patriots of the National Football League....
    , NFL defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
    New England Patriots

    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats" by sports writers and fans, are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
  • D.J. Shockley, season record holder most touchdowns responsible for and most touchdown passes in a season. NFL 2rd string quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons
    Atlanta Falcons

    The Atlanta Falcons are an American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia . They are currently a member of the NFC South division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Frank Sinkwich
    Frank Sinkwich

    Francis "Frank" Sinkwich won the 1942 Heisman Trophy as a player for the University of Georgia, making him the first recipient from the Southeastern Conference....
    , All-America
    All-America

    An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American Sportspersons....
    n football player and Heisman Trophy
    Heisman Trophy

    The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , was named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football....
     winner in 1942
  • Matt Stinchcomb
    Matt Stinchcomb

    Matt Stinchcomb is a former American football offensive tackle, who played for the Georgia Bulldogs football, the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers....
    , NFL offensive lineman Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders

    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    Tampa Bay Buccaneers

    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are aprofessional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. They are currently members of the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , 2-time football All-America
    All-America

    An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American Sportspersons....
    , 1st round 1999 draft
  • Jon Stinchcomb
    Jon Stinchcomb

    Jon Stinchcomb is an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints. He played football at Parkview High School and college football at the University of Georgia....
    , NFL offensive lineman New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints

    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    , football All-American, 2nd round draft choice
  • Sheila Taormina
    Sheila Taormina

    Sheila Taormina is an United States athlete, who competes in triathlon and swimming. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Taormina earned a gold medal as a member of the winning women's 4?200 meter freestyle swimming relay team....
    , Olympic
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     gold medalist, and only American to participate in the Olympics in three different sports.
  • Fran Tarkenton
    Fran Tarkenton

    Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton is a former professional American football player, TV personality, and computer software executive.He is best known for his years with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, as well as a commentator on Monday Night Football and a co-host of That's Incredible!....
    , 9-time Pro-Bowler as quarterback of the NFL Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     and New York Giants
    New York Giants

    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex....
  • Christi Thomas
    Christi Thomas

    Christi Thomas plays professional basketball in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks. She attended the University of Georgia where she played under coach Andy Landers....
    , WNBA forward for the Los Angeles Sparks
    Los Angeles Sparks

    The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, the Sparks are one of the eight original WNBA teams....
  • Odell Thurman
    Odell Thurman

    Odell Lamar Thurman is an American football linebacker. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Bulldogs football....
    , NFL linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals
    Cincinnati Bengals

    The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. It is currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Charley Trippi
    Charley Trippi

    Charles Louis Trippi was a professional American football player for the Chicago Cardinals. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968....
    , College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, two-time Pro Bowl halfback for the Chicago Cardinals
  • Herschel Walker
    Herschel Walker

    Herschel Walker is a former American football player who played at The University of Georgia in college and professionally in the United States Football League and the National Football League....
    , retired NFL running back, Heisman Trophy
    Heisman Trophy

    The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , was named after the former college football coach John Heisman, is awarded annually by the Heisman Trophy Trust to the most outstanding player in collegiate football....
     winner and 3 time football All-America
    All-America

    An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American Sportspersons....
    n 1982 in 1982
  • Hines Ward
    Hines Ward

    Hines E. Ward, Jr. is a American football player who currently plays the wide receiver position for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers....
    , NFL wide-receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
  • Bubba Watson
    Bubba Watson

    Gerry "Bubba" Watson is an United States professional golfer.Watson was born in Bagdad, Florida. He played golf for Faulkner State Community College in Alabama, where he was a junior college All-American....
    , player on the PGA Tour
    PGA Tour

    The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida....
  • Jermaine Wiggins
    Jermaine Wiggins

    Jermaine Wiggins is an American football tight end who is currently a free agent....
    , NFL tight-end for the Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Dominique Wilkins
    Dominique Wilkins

    Jacques Dominique Wilkins is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association and Basketball Hall of Famer....
    , NBA slam dunk champion for the Atlanta Hawks
    Atlanta Hawks

    The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  • Damien Wilkins
    Damien Wilkins

    Damien Lamont Wilkins is an United States professional basketball player currently with the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association....
    , NBA guard for the Seattle Supersonics
    Seattle SuperSonics

    The Seattle SuperSonics were an United States professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific Division and Northwest Division s of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008....


Business and industry

  • Dan Amos
    Daniel P. Amos

    Daniel Paul Amos is chairman and chief executive officer of Aflac Incorporated. Mr. Amos joined Aflac in 1973 and worked in the sales area for 10 years....
    , Chairman & CEO of AFLAC
    Aflac

    Aflac Incorporated sells supplemental health and life insurance in the United States and Japan. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia, Georgia ....
  • Stephen Bell, Strategic Adviser, Canvas Systems
  • D.W. Brooks, founder and chairman emeritus of Gold Kist
    Gold Kist

    Gold Kist is a large producing company in the United States south. It was founded in 1933 by D.W. Brooks, a University of Georgia agronomy instructor as the Cotton Producers Association, a cooperative to help farmers in Carrollton, Georgia market cotton....
  • Felicia Joy Browder, former Chief Spokesperson for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
    Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

    Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport , known locally as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport, and Hartsfield-Jackson, is located seven miles south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
     and Chairman and CEO of Ms.CEO Media Inc. (parent company to the Ms.CEO Radio Show and Ms. CEO Magazine)
  • Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop
    Build-A-Bear Workshop

    Build-A-Bear Workshop is an United States retailing that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals. It is the largest create-your-own animal service, with the other companies in the business consisting of regional and/or locally-owned operations....
  • Brantley Coile, creator of Cisco PIX
    Cisco PIX

    Cisco PIX is a popular Internet protocol suite Firewall and network address translation computer appliance. It was one of the first products in this market segment....
    , Cisco LocalDirector
    Cisco LocalDirector

    Cisco LocalDirector is a server load balancing appliance, discontinued in 2003, based on the Network Address Translation technology Cisco Systems acquired when they bought Network Translation, Inc....
    , ATA-over-Ethernet and founder of Coraid
    Coraid

    of Athens, GA designs and manufactures Etherdrive networked storage appliances. Coraid's developers created and maintain the Linux kernel's aoe driver....
    , Inc.
  • A.D. “Pete” Correll, chairman and CEO of Georgia-Pacific Corp
  • Tom Cousins
    Tom Cousins

    Thomas Grady Cousins is a prominent real estate developer primarily in Atlanta, Georgia.Important projects include CNN Center, the Omni Coliseum, 191 Peachtree Tower, the Pinnacle Building in Buckhead and the first phase of the Georgia World Congress Center....
    , founder of Cousins Properties
  • Beverly Dolan, Founder of EZ-G0 Golf Carts, past President of Textron
    Textron

    Founded in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company by Royal Little, Textron , today is a multi-industry company with a portfolio of familiar brands such as Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Greenlee, among others....
  • Rex Fuqua, Fuqua Industries
  • Donald Ivestor, Former CEO of Coca-Cola
    Coca-Cola

    Coca-Cola is a carbonation soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines worldwide . It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke or as Cola or Pop....
  • Bill Jones III, The Sea Island Company
  • Don Leebern, Georgia Crown
  • Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr.
    Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr.

    Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. was an United States businessman, philanthropist and Chairman of J.C. Lewis Enterprises, Lewis Broadcasting Corporation, J.C....
    , President of J.C. Lewis Enterprises and Lewis Broadcasting Corp.
  • Hala Moddelmog
    Hala Moddelmog

    Hala Moddelmog became president and chief executive officer of Susan G. Komen for the Cure in September 2006. Moddelmog is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 2001....
    , president of Church’s Chicken
  • Billy Morris, Morris Communications
  • Jim Nalley, Nalley Automotive
  • Billy Payne
    William Porter Payne

    William Porter "Billy" Payne was named president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games .Early Life...
    , President of Augusta National
  • David Barnhart, Network Operations at Hewlett Packard


Economics and finance

  • Jim Blanchard, Founder and President of Synovus
  • Robert D. McTeer
    Robert D. McTeer

    Robert D. McTeer has been a fellow at the US National Center for Policy Analysis since January 2007.Born in Georgia , he earned his B.B.A. and Ph.D....
    , former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
    Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

    The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas covers the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, which includes Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico....
     (1991–2005)
  • Bernard Ramsey
    Bernard Ramsey

    Bernard Bruce Ramsey was an corporate officer with Merrill Lynch, a brokerage firm, but is best known for his philanthropy contributions to the University of Georgia....
    , former senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch

    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. is a global financial services firm which was acquired by Bank of America. This article describes both the historical Merrill Lynch and its ongoing operations as a subsidiary of the bank....
  • Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
    Charles S. Sanford, Jr.

    Charles Steadman "Charlie" Sanford was an United States businessman who served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust....
    , Retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust
    Bankers Trust

    The Bankers Trust was a historic United States banking organization that was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998....


Educators

  • Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor at UGA and member of the National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
  • Cynthia Kenyon
    Cynthia Kenyon

    Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an United States molecular biologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a tiny worm, Caenorhabditis elegans....
    , professor of biochemistry , biophysics, University of California
    University of California

    The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
    -San Francisco, member National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
  • Robert D. McTeer
    Robert D. McTeer

    Robert D. McTeer has been a fellow at the US National Center for Policy Analysis since January 2007.Born in Georgia , he earned his B.B.A. and Ph.D....
    , chancellor of Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University

    Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU, is a coeducational public university research university located in College Station, Texas, Texas....
  • Dr. Evan Glazer, Principal of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
    Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

    Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a public secondary school located in Fairfax County, Virginia, Virginia, United States, west of Alexandria, Virginia....
    , a top-ranked magnet school in Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria, Virginia

    Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 128,283....


Government and the law

  • Ellis Arnall
    Ellis Arnall

    Ellis Gibbs Arnall was an United States politician who served as the List of Governors of Georgia of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • William Yates Atkinson
    William Yates Atkinson

    William Yates Atkinson was the governor of Georgia from 1894 to 1898.Atkinson graduated from the University of Georgia with an LL.B in 1877. He married Susie Cobb Milton in 1880....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • John Barrow
    John Barrow (U.S. politician)

    John Jenkins Barrow , United States politician, is currently a Democratic Party United States House of Representatives from Georgia 's Georgia's 12th congressional district....
    , current member of House of Representatives
  • Robert Benham
    Robert Benham

    Robert Benham is the second African-American Alumnus of the University of Georgia School of Law and the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of Georgia ....
    , first African-American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
  • Charles H. Bronson
    Charles H. Bronson

    Charles H. Bronson is the Commissioner of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for the U.S. State of Florida. He was appointed to the position in 2001 by Governor Jeb Bush, then reelected to the position in 2002 and 2006....
    , Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
     Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
  • Howell Cobb
    Howell Cobb

    Howell Cobb was an United States political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851....
    , Governor of Georgia and US Representative, Speaker of the House
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party representing California's 8th congressional district....
     in 31st Congress
  • Cathy Cox
    Cathy Cox

    Lera Catharine "Cathy" Cox is a Georgia politician, a member of the Democratic Party , the former Secretary of State of Georgia, and a candidate for Georgia gubernatorial election, 2006....
    , Secretary of State for the state of Georgia
  • William Crosby Dawson
    William Crosby Dawson

    William Crosby Dawson was a lawyer, judge, politician, and soldier from Georgia ....
    , U.S. Senator, judge, politician
  • Norman S. Fletcher
    Norman S. Fletcher

    Norman S. Fletcher is an United States lawyer and jurist from the state of Georgia . He served on the Supreme Court of Georgia for over 15 years and was the Chief Justice of that body from 2001 through 2005....
    , Georgia State Supreme Court Chief Justice
  • John B. Gordon, General in Confederate
    Confederate States of America

    The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
     Army, a U.S. Senator, and Governor of Georgia
  • Phil Gramm
    Phil Gramm

    William Philip Gramm is a US politician, who has served as a Democratic Party United States House of Representatives , a Republican Party Congressman and a Republican United States Senate from Texas ....
    , former U.S. Senator from Texas
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
  • Joe Frank Harris
    Joe Frank Harris

    Joe Frank Harris is an United States Democratic Party politician who served as the List of Governors of Georgia of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1983 to 1991....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • Nathaniel E. Harris, Governor of Georgia
  • Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California
    University of California

    The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
     privacy law expert
  • Brent Jarnicki, Ohio's finest attorney
  • Herschel Vespasian Johnson
    Herschel Vespasian Johnson

    Herschel Vespasian Johnson was an United States of America politician. He was the governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Stephen A....
    , Governor of Georgia, U.S. senator, Confederate senator, and candidate for U.S. vice president
  • James Johnson
    James Johnson (Georgia)

    James Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Georgia and served as provisional governor of Georgia between June and October 1865.He was born in 1811 in Robeson County, North Carolina....
    , Governor of Georgia and U.S. Representative
  • Richard Meno, Connecticut real estate lawyer
  • John Milledge
    John Milledge

    John Milledge was an United States politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was later a United States Representative and a United States Senate representing Georgia ....
    , Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator
    United States Senate

    The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
     and US Representative
    United States House of Representatives

    The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
  • Zell Miller
    Zell Miller

    Zell Bryan Miller is an United States politician from the U.S. state of Georgia . Elected as a Democratic Party , Miller served as Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1990, List of Governors of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as United States Senate from 2000 to 2005....
    , U.S. Senator, Governor of Georgia, and founder of the HOPE Scholarship
    HOPE Scholarship

    The HOPE Scholarship, created in 1993 by the state of Georgia legislature, is a university scholarship program that has been adopted by several other U.S....
  • Sonny Perdue
    Sonny Perdue

    George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III is the List of Governors of Georgia of the U.S. state of Georgia . Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first United States Republican Party governor of Georgia since Benjamin F....
    , Georgia Governor
  • Ralph Reed
    Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

    Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr., is a Conservatism in the United States United States political activist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition of America during the early 1990s....
    , conservative activist and candidate for Lt. Governor of Georgia
  • Fred B. Rooney
    Fred B. Rooney

    Frederick Bernard Rooney, Jr. was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.He served in the United States Army from February 1944 to April 1946, with service in Europe as a paratrooper....
    , US Representative
    United States House of Representatives

    The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
     from Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania

    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
  • Richard Russell, Jr.
    Richard Russell, Jr.

    Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was an United States Democratic Party politician who was a long-time United States Senate from the state of Georgia ....
    , Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
  • Carl Sanders
    Carl Sanders

    Carl Edward Sanders, Sr. is an United States politician who served as the List of Governors of Georgia of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1963 to 1967....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • John Marshall Slaton
    John Marshall Slaton

    John Marshall Slaton, or Jack Slaton, served two non-consecutive terms as the Governor of Georgia. Slaton was born on December 25, 1866, in Meriwether County, Georgia....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • Alexander Stephens
    Alexander Stephens

    Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American politician from Georgia . He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War....
    , Governor of Georgia and later Vice-President of the Confederate States of America
  • Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge

    Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic Party politician who served as List of Governors of Georgia of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • Herman Talmadge
    Herman Talmadge

    Herman Eugene Talmadge was an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Georgia . He served as governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955....
    , Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator
  • Mark Taylor
    Mark Taylor (politician)

    Mark Fletcher Taylor is an United States politician and member of the Democratic Party . He served two terms between 1999 to 2007 as Lieutenant governor of the U.S....
    , Georgia Lieutenant Governor
  • Melvin E. Thompson
    Melvin E. Thompson

    Melvin Ernest Thompson was an United States educator and politician from Millen, Georgia in the United States U.S. state of Georgia .Thompson was born in Millen, Georgia to Henry J....
    , Governor of Georgia
  • Ernest Vandiver
    Ernest Vandiver

    Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. was an United States politician who was List of Governors of Georgia of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1959 to 1963....
    , Governor of Georgia


Media and journalism

(In alphabetical order.)
  • Brooke Anderson
    Brooke Anderson

    Brooke Victoria Anderson is a culture and entertainment anchor and producer for CNN and serves as co-host for Showbiz Tonight on CNN Headline News....
    , a news anchor for CNN
    CNN

    Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
  • Deborah Blum
    Deborah Blum

    Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research....
    , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
  • Chip Caray
    Chip Caray

    Harry Christopher "Chip" Caray III is a television broadcaster for Turner Broadcasting System and is also an occasional radio broadcaster and co-host of the pre-game and post-game shows on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network....
    , baseball announcer.
  • Jim Currier, Sportswriter for the Coastal Courier in Hinesville, GA. Previously, he won awards at the Bryan County News in Richmond Hill
  • Lewis Grizzard
    Lewis Grizzard

    'Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr.' was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the U.S. Southern states. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous column in the At...
    , columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Bill Hartman III, sports anchor for WSB-TV
    WSB-TV

    WSB-TV is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia , broadcasting on analog channel 2 and digital channel 39. It is the flagship television station of Cox Enterprises and is co-owned alongside the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the WSB radio stations ....
  • John Huey, editorial director of Time, Inc.
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    Charlayne Hunter-Gault

    Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American journalist and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service....
    , CNN International bureau chief in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Ernie Johnson, Jr.
    Ernie Johnson Jr.

    Ernie Johnson, Jr. is a sports broadcaster for Turner Network Television and TBS ....
    , sports broadcaster for TNT
    Turner Network Television

    TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....
     and TBS
    TBS (TV network)

    TBS is an United States cable television TV network owned by media mogul Ted Turner that shows sports and a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy....
  • W. Thomas Johnson, retired chairman, president, and CEO of CNN; former president, publisher, and CEO of Los Angeles Times
  • Pat Mitchell
    Pat Mitchell

    Pat Mitchell is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media in New York, New York and the former President and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service....
    , former president of Public Broadcasting Service
    Public Broadcasting Service

    The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
     and current president of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  • Julie Moran
    Julie Moran

    Julie Moran , America's Junior Miss 1980, was a correspondent on the entertainment news show Entertainment Tonight from 1994 - 2001. Before joining ET, she co-hosted NBA Inside Stuff with Ahmad Rashad and later became the second woman to host American Broadcasting Company's Wide World of Sports ....
    , host of Entertainment Tonight
    Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is Television syndication by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world....
  • Deborah Norville
    Deborah Norville

    Deborah Norville is an United States television broadcaster and journalist. Since 1995, she has been host of the syndicated American television program Inside Edition....
    , television journalist
  • Wesley M. "Pat" Pattillo, communications director, National Council of Churches
  • Ed Pope, sportswriter for the Miami Herald
  • Leonard Postero
    Leonard Postero

    Leonard Anthony Postero, Sr. was a native of Athens, Georgia, best known for his syndicated radio show, Leonard's Losers. He was a 1943 graduate of the University of Georgia and served as an aviator in the United States Navy from 1943-1945....
    , creator of Leonard's Losers, a syndicated football prognistication radio show
  • Ralph Reed
    Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

    Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr., is a Conservatism in the United States United States political activist, best known as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition of America during the early 1990s....
    , pundit and former director of the Christian Coalition
  • Deborah Roberts
    Deborah Roberts

    Deborah Roberts is an American journalist and television news correspondent....
    , ABC News producer and correspondent
  • Mark Schlabach
    Mark Schlabach

    Mark Schlabach is an author and columnist for ESPN.com. Schlabach joined ESPN.com in July 2006 as a college football and college basketball columnist....
    , ESPN college football and basketball columnist, formerly of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Washington Post
  • Tommy Tomlinson
    Tommy Tomlinson

    Robert M. Tomlinson is a Republican Party member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who has represented the Pennsylvania Senate, District 6 since 1995....
    , columnist for the Charlotte Observer; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.


Medicine

  • Hervey M. Cleckley
    Hervey M. Cleckley

    Dr. Hervey Milton Cleckley was an United States psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. His book, The Mask of Sanity, originally published in 1941, provided the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th Century....
    , psychiatrist and co-author of The Three Faces of Eve
  • Hamilton E. Holmes
    Hamilton E. Holmes

    Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He with Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia, was the first African-American student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine where he earned his M.D....
    , orthopedist, professor and associate dean of Emory University
    Emory University

    Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta, Georgia in western unincorporated area DeKalb County, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
     School of Medicine
  • Crawford W. Long, inventor of anesthesia


Military

  • John B. Gordon, General in Confederate
    Confederate States of America

    The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
     Army, a US Senator, and Governor of Georgia


Ministry and Religion

  • Benjamin M. Palmer
    Benjamin M. Palmer

    Benjamin Morgan Palmer , an orator and Presbyterian theologian, was the first Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America....
     -- Class of 1838, South Carolina native, first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856-1902)
  • George Foster Pierce
    George Foster Pierce

    George Foster Pierce was an United States bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South elected in 1854....
     - Bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
     of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
    Methodist Episcopal Church, South

    The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South, was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844....
    , President of Georgia Female College
    Wesleyan College

    Wesleyan College is a private, Liberal arts colleges in the United States Women's Colleges in the Southern United States located in Macon, Georgia....
     and Emory College
    Emory University

    Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta, Georgia in western unincorporated area DeKalb County, Georgia, Georgia , United States....


Scientific research

  • Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor at UGA and member of the National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
  • Cornelia Bargmann
    Cornelia Bargmann

    Cornelia I. "Cori" Bargmann is a pioneering scientist in the field of neurobiology and behavior in the C. elegans. She particularly studies olfaction in the worm....
    , anatomy professor at the Rockefeller University
    Rockefeller University

    The Rockefeller University is a private university which focuses primarily on basic research in the biomedical fields and offers graduate and postgraduate education....
    , investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medicine research institute based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American aviation magnate Howard Hughes in 1953....
  • Alfred Blalock
    Alfred Blalock

    Alfred Blalock was a 20th-century United States surgeon in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of Shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot?known commonly as the blue baby syndrome?with Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologis...
    , medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock
  • A. Jamie Cuticchia
    A. Jamie Cuticchia

    A. Jamie Cuticchia, Ph.D. is a leader in human genome informatics. He earned his B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park, Baltimore and his Ph.D....
    , bioinformatics pioneer, director of human genome database
  • Cynthia Kenyon
    Cynthia Kenyon

    Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an United States molecular biologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a tiny worm, Caenorhabditis elegans....
    , professor of biochemistry , biophysics, University of California
    University of California

    The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges s...
    -San Francisco, member National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
  • Bruce J. Klein, co-founder of the Immortality Institute
    Immortality Institute

    The Immortality Institute is a Non-profit organization501 organization with the mission "to conquer the blight of involuntary death." The organization hosts an online forum, publishes books , creates films, and sponsors conferences in order to advance life extension research....
    , author, and film producer


Distinguished faculty and staff

The University of Georgia
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is a public university research university located in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning....
 has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. It has also been the home of successful athletic coaches. Faculty and staff standouts past and present include:

Arts and humanities

  • Charles Bullock III, renowned analyst of Southern politics
  • Lamar Dodd
    Lamar Dodd

    Lamar Dodd was a U.S. painter whose work reflected a love of the American South.Born in Fairburn, Georgia to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland , and reared in LaGrange, Georgia, Dodd trained in the South, including a short stay at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta....
    , nationally recognized artist
  • Loch K. Johnson
    Loch K. Johnson

    Dr. Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He is editor of the journal "Intelligence and National Security" and has written numerous books on American foreign policy....
    , Leading expert on Intelligence and National Security
  • Hugh Kenner
    Hugh Kenner

    William Hugh Kenner , was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics....
    , literary scholar and prolific critic, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States....
  • 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 (Basic Books, 1997)
  • William S. McFeely
    William S. McFeely

    William S. McFeely was a professor of history for decades before his retirement in 1997. He is still active as a writer.He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1952, and Ph.D....
    , professor of humanities, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Dean Rusk
    Dean Rusk

    David Dean Rusk was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the second-longest serving Secretary of State, behind Cordell Hull....
    , former US Secretary of State
  • Freddy Wittop
    Freddy Wittop

    Freddy Wittop was a Tony Award-winning costume designer. He enjoyed secondary careers as a dancer and college professor.Born Frederick Wittop Koning in Bussum, the Netherlands, Wittop emigrated with his family to Brussels, where he apprenticed at the age of thirteen with the resident designer at the Brussels Opera....
    , Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
    -winning costume designer
    Costume Designer

    File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgA costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or Stage production. He or she is considered part of the "production team", alongside the Theatre director, scenic design and lighting designers as well as the sound designer....
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
    Judith Ortiz Cofer

    Judith Ortiz Cofer is an acclaimed Puerto Rico author. Her works span a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young Adult novels....
    , internationally recognized writer, and Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing


Athletics

  • Jack Bauerle
    Jack Bauerle

    Jack Bauerle is the head coach of the University of Georgia men's and women's swimming teams. In the spring of 2006, he finished his 27th year as a head coach for UGA....
    , swimming and diving coach
  • Wally Butts
    Wally Butts

    James Wallace "Wally" Butts, Jr. was the head coach American football coach and athletic director at the University of Georgia.College...
    , football coach
  • Jim Donnan
    Jim Donnan

    Jim Donnan was a college football coach and is now an on-air television analyst for college football games as well as a motivational speaker....
    , football coach
  • Vince Dooley
    Vince Dooley

    Vincent Joseph Dooley was the head coach American football coach and athletic director at the University of Georgia. During his 25 year coaching career at UGA, Dooley compiled a 201-77-10 record....
    , football coach and Athletic Director
  • Damon Evans
    Damon Evans

    Damon M. Evans is the athletic director at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Georgia .After graduating from Gainesville High School, Georgia in Hall County, Georgia, Evans played football for UGA, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi from 1988 to 1992 and graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1992 with a Bachelor of B...
    , Athletic Director and alumnus
  • Ray Goff
    Ray Goff

    Ray Goff was a college football player and coach of the Georgia Bulldogs football....
    , football coach
  • Andy Landers
    Andy Landers

    Andy Landers is the longtime head coach of the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team. He married the former Pam McClellan in 1981 and has two children, Andrea Lauren and Drew Joseph....
    , women's basketball coach
  • Dan Magill
    Dan Magill

    Daniel Hamilton "Dan" Magill, Jr., longtime Sports Information Director, Head Tennis Coach, and Georgia Bulldog Club secretary for the University of Georgia, is known throughout the state of Georgia and the South for his unparalleled contributions to the Georgia Bulldog athletic program....
    , tennis coach
  • Mark Richt
    Mark Richt

    Mark Richt is the current head coach of the University of Georgia Georgia Bulldogs American football team. His previous affiliations were with Florida State University as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and also with East Carolina University....
    , football coach
  • Suzanne Yoculan
    Suzanne Yoculan

    Suzanne Paige Yoculan is the head coach of the women's Artistic gymnastics program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She has built the Georgia gymnastics program into a perennial national powerhouse, and is one of the most successful college gymnastics coaches in history....
    , women's gymnastics coach


Engineering

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

    The United States National Academy of Engineering is a private, non-profit institution which was founded in 1964, under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the United States National Academy of Sciences, signed by Abraham Lincoln, in 1863....
  • Stuart O. Nelson, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering elected to National Academy of Engineering
    National Academy of Engineering

    The United States National Academy of Engineering is a private, non-profit institution which was founded in 1964, under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the United States National Academy of Sciences, signed by Abraham Lincoln, in 1863....


Mathematics

  • Andrew Granville
    Andrew Granville

    Andrew James Granville is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.He has been a faculty member at the Universit? de Montr?al since 2002....
    , mathematics
  • Carl Pomerance
    Carl Pomerance

    Carl Pomerance is a well known number theory. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number N has at least 7 distinct prime factors....
    , mathematics, a distinguished number theorist, Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture
  • Robert Rumely, mathematics, Adleman-Pomerance-Rumely algorithm for proving numbers prime.


Scientific research

  • Jeffrey Bennetzen
    Jeffrey Bennetzen

    Jeffrey Lynn Bennetzen is an American geneticist on the faculty of the University of Georgia .He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1974 and his doctoral degree in biochemistry from the University of Washington in 1980....
    , molecular geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • Brent Berlin
    Brent Berlin

    Brent Berlin is an United States anthropology, most famous for his work with Linguistics Paul Kay on color, Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution ....
    , anthropologist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Glenn Burton, agronomist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • John Avise, genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Lois Miller, entomology and genetics researcher, elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • Norman Allinger
    Norman Allinger

    Norman "Lou" Allinger is an United States computational chemistry and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus#Other positions of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia....
     chemist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
    , awarded the Franklin Medal
    Franklin Institute

    Founded in honor of Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the United States....
  • Norman Giles, geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Susan R. Wessler
    Susan R. Wessler

    Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D. is an United States plant molecular biologist and geneticist. She is on the faculty of the University of Georgia .Wessler was born in New York City....
    , botanist and geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, elected to National Academy of Sciences
    United States National Academy of Sciences

    The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine."...
    , American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States....
  • Juergen Wiegel, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Lawrence Shimkets, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    American Association for the Advancement of Science

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation between scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting science education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity....
  • William Whitman, microbiologist, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Ying Xu
    Ying Xu

    Ying Xu , Ph. D., is a Computational biology and bioinformatician, and a chair professor under the title 'Regents-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar' in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia, USA....
    , bioinformatician, elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Allan Armitage
    Allan Armitage

    Allan M. Armitage is professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he teaches, conducts research, and runs the University of Georgia Horticulture Gardens?producing annual guidelines for annuals and perennials suitable for heat and humidity....
    , horticulturist, recipient of the National Educator Award from the American Horticultural Society
    American Horticultural Society

    The American Horticultural Society is a nonprofit organization that promotes excellence in American horticulture.Established in 1922, the AHS is one of the oldest national gardening organizations in the country....
    .
  • Eugene Odum
    Eugene Odum

    Eugene Pleasants Odum was an U.S. scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology.The average schoolchild of today knows that humans depend on adequate conditions of food, water, and shelter from inclement elements and also that weather, geology, and biology factors are involved in the web of life that affords this Ecosyste...
    , zoologist and groundbreaking pioneer in study of ecology
    Ecology

    Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
    , author of first textbook on the subject
  • Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer
    Henry F. Schaefer, III

    Henry "Fritz" Schaefer III is a Computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry chemist. He is the author of a large number of scientific publications, and was the 6th most cited chemist from 1981 to 1997 and the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for computational chemistry at the University of Georgia....
    , chemistry, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Murray S. Blum
    Murray S. Blum

    Murray S. Blum is an American research entomologist and a noted authority in the field of chemical ecology....
    , entomologist, recipient of Lamar Dodd Award, authority on chemical ecology
    Chemical ecology

    Chemical ecology is the study of the chemicals involved in the interactions of living organisms. It focuses on the production of and response to signaling molecules and toxins....
     and pheromones
  • Stephen Hubbell, plant biology research, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences


Chief Executives of the University

  • Abraham Baldwin
    Abraham Baldwin

    Abraham Baldwin was an Politics of the United States, Patriot , and Founding Fathers of the United States from the U.S. state of Georgia . Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate after the adoption of the United States Constitution....
    , President (1785 - 1801)
  • Josiah Meigs
    Josiah Meigs

    Josiah Meigs was an United States academic, journalist and government official.Meigs was the 13th and last child of Return Meigs and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs....
    , President (1801 – 1810)
  • John Brown
    John Brown (Educator)

    John Brown was the third president of the University of Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1811 until his resignation in 1816.Brown was born on June 15, 1763 in County Antrim, Ireland and died on December 11, 1842 in Fort Gaines, Georgia....
    , President (1811 – 1816)
  • Robert Finley
    Robert Finley

    Robert Finley was briefly the president of the University of Georgia. Finley was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton University at the age of 15....
    , President (1817)
  • Moses Waddel
    Moses Waddel

    Moses Waddel was an United States educator and Minister in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina. Famous as a teacher during his life, Moses Waddel was author of the bestselling book Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt....
    , President (1819 – 1829)
  • Alonzo S. Church
    Alonzo S. Church

    Alonzo S. Church was the sixth president of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1829 until his resignation in 1859....
    , President (1829 – 1859)
  • Andrew A. Lipscomb
    Andrew A. Lipscomb

    Andrew Adgate Lipscomb was an United States clergyman and educator.Lipscomb was born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. As a young man, he entered the ministry of the Methodism church, joining the Maryland conference in 1835, and for some time was President of the Alabama conference....
    , Chancellor (1860 – 1874)
  • Henry Holcombe Tucker
    Henry Holcombe Tucker

    Henry Holcombe Tucker was the chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Georgia from 1874 until his resignation in 1878. Note that the head of the University was referred to as chancellor instead of president from 1860 until 1932....
    , Chancellor (1874 – 1878)
  • Patrick Hues Mell
    Patrick Hues Mell

    Patrick Hues Mell , born in Walthourville, Georgia, was chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1878 until his resignation in 1888....
    , Chancellor (1878 – 1888)
  • William Ellison Boggs
    William Ellison Boggs

    William Ellison Boggs , born in Ahmedunggar, Hindustan, India, was chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States from 1889 until his resignation in 1898 ....
    , Chancellor (1889 – 1898)
  • Walter Barnard Hill
    Walter Barnard Hill

    Walter Barnard Hill was chancellor of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1899 until his death in 1905 .Hill was born in Talbotton, Georgia, Georgia ....
    , Chancellor (1899 – 1905)
  • David Crenshaw Barrow, Jr., Chancellor (1906 – 1925)
  • Charles Melton Snelling
    Charles Melton Snelling

    Charles Mercer Snelling was the Chancellor or the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Georgia from 1925 to 1932 and the first Chancellor of the University System of Georgia ....
    , Chancellor (1925 – 1932)
  • Steadman Vincent Sanford
    Steadman Vincent Sanford

    Steadman Vincent Sanford , was President of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1932 until 1935. He subsequently served as Chancellor of the University System of Georgia from 1935 until 1945....
    , President (1932 — 1935)
  • Harmon White Caldwell
    Harmon White Caldwell

    Harmon White Caldwell was President of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1935 until 1948 and Chancellor of the University System of Georgia from 1948 to 1964...
    , President (1935 – 1948)
  • Jonathan Clark Rogers
    Jonathan Clark Rogers

    Jonathan Clark Rogers was President of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1949 until 1950.Born in 1885 in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana, Rogers earned his B.S....
    , President (1949 – 1950)
  • Omer Clyde Aderhold
    Omer Clyde Aderhold

    Omer Clyde "O.C." Aderhold was President of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1950 until 1967.Aderhold was born in Lavonia, Georgia on November 7, 1899....
    , President (1950 – 1967)
  • Frederick Corbet Davison
    Frederick Corbet Davison

    Frederick Corbet "Fred" Davison was the President of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1967 until his resignation in 1986....
    , President (1967 – 1986)
  • Henry King Stanford
    Henry King Stanford

    Henry King Stanford was the 3rd President of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida Florida. He served in that capacity from 1962 until 1981, when upon his retirement he was named President Emeritus....
    , Interim President (1986 - 1987)
  • Charles Boynton Knapp
    Charles Boynton Knapp

    Charles Boynton "Chuck" Knapp was the president of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1987 until his resignation in 1997....
    , President (1987 – 1997)
  • Michael F. Adams
    Michael F. Adams

    Michael F. Adams is the president of the University of Georgia.Adams began his career in education as faculty at Ohio State University 1973-1975....
    , President (1997-present)