List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
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University leaders
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| Edwin Alderman Edwin Alderman Edwin Anderson Alderman served as the President of three universities. The University of Virginia's Alderman Library is named after him, as is in Wilmington and Alderman dorm at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
1882 | Former president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States... , Tulane University Tulane University Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States... and University of Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... |
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| William Brantley Aycock William Brantley Aycock William Brantley Aycock is an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and is the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law.... |
Grad | Law | Former Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States... |
| Kemp P. Battle Kemp P. Battle Kemp Plummer Battle served as North Carolina State Treasurer and as president of the University of North Carolina in the nineteenth century.Battle graduated from the University in 1849 as the valedictorian of his class... |
1848 | Former president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Erskine Bowles Erskine Bowles Erskine Boyce Bowles is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the President of the University of North Carolina system... |
1967 | Business administration | Former President of the University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century... , former U.S. Senate candidate, and former White House Chief of Staff White House Chief of Staff The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President.The current White House Chief of Staff is Bill Daley.-History:... , co-chair President of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is a Presidential Commission created in 2010 by President Barack Obama to identify "…policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long run."... |
| Mary Sue Coleman | Grad. | Biochemistry | Current President of the University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... |
| Elson S. Floyd | 1978 / Grad. | Higher and Adult Education | President of Washington State University Washington State University Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university... |
| Porter Lee Fortune, Jr. Porter Lee Fortune, Jr. Porter Lee Fortune, Jr. was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1968 to 1984.-Biography:... |
1941 / Grad. | History | Former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the... |
| William C. Friday William C. Friday William Clyde "Bill" Friday He was born in Raphine, Virginia and raised in Dallas, North Carolina. He served as the head of the University of North Carolina system from 1956 to 1986.... |
Grad. | Law | Former President of the University of North Carolina |
| Carol Garrison Carol Garrison Dr. Carol Z. Garrison is the 6th and current President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System unanimously voted to appoint her to the office on July 23, 2002.-Prior Employment:... |
1974 / Grad. | Epidemiology | Current President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System... |
| R. Barbara Gitenstein R. Barbara Gitenstein R. Barbara Gitenstein is the president of The College of New Jersey. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from UNC in 1975. Dr. Gitenstein was born in Florala, Alabama, a town of 2000 where hers was the only Jewish family... |
Grad. | English | Current President of The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Trenton.... |
| Edward Kidder Graham Edward Kidder Graham Edward Kidder Graham was an American educational administrator, the tenth president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .-Biography:... |
1898 | Former President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Frank Porter Graham Frank Porter Graham Frank Porter Graham was a president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and, for a brief period, United States Senator.-Early life:... |
1909 | Former president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and United States Senator from North Carolina | |
| Gordon Gray | 1930 | President of the University of North Carolina, Secretary of the Army United States Secretary of the Army The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and... , and National Security Advisor |
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| Charles Duncan McIver Charles Duncan McIver Charles Duncan McIver is known as the founder and first president of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.... |
1881 | Founder of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master's and 26... |
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| Heather Monroe-Blum | Grad. | Epidemiology | Current Vice-Chancellor of McGill University McGill University Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university... |
| J. Michael Ortiz J. Michael Ortiz J. Michael Ortiz is an American educator and the 5th president of Cal Poly Pomona. Prior to this appointment on August 1, 2003 Ortiz was professor of education at Appalachian State University and vice president for academic affairs at Fresno State. He wast listed in 2005 as one of the 100 most... |
Grad. | Education | President of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, or Cal Poly Pomona, is a public university located in Pomona, California, United States... (Cal Poly Pomona) |
| William L. Pollard | Grad. | Social Work | President of Medgar Evers College Medgar Evers College Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York.Medgar Evers College was officially established in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn... |
| Thomas Ross Thomas W. Ross Thomas Warren Ross, Sr. is the president of the University of North Carolina system. He succeeded Erskine Bowles on January 1, 2011. Formerly, he was president of Davidson College, a private North Carolina liberal arts college from August 1, 2007 to January 1, 2011.Ross, a native of Greensboro,... |
Grad. | Law | Current President of the University of North Carolina, Former President of Davidson College Davidson College Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine, although it has recently dropped to 11th in U.S. News... |
| Terry Sanford Terry Sanford James Terry Sanford was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the 65th Governor of North Carolina , a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator... |
1939 / Grad. | Law | Former President of Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... , and Senator from and Governor of North Carolina |
| J. Carlyle Sitterson J. Carlyle Sitterson Joseph Carlyle "Lyle" Sitterson was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16, 1966 to January 31, 1972.... |
1931 / Grad. | History | Former Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Holden Thorp Holden Thorp Herbert Holden Thorp is a chemist, inventor, musician, professor, and entrepreneur who is the tenth and current chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He began in that position on July 1, 2008, succeeding James Moeser, and, at age 43, was noted at the time as being among... |
1986 | Chemistry | Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Tony Waldrop Tony Waldrop Tony Waldrop is an American professor, academic administrator and athlete, currently serving as the provost and executive vice president of the University of Central Florida. Waldrop is best known for setting the world indoor record in the mile... |
1974 / Grad. | Political science / Physiology | Provost of the University of Central Florida University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States... , gold medalist 1975 Pan American Games 1975 Pan American Games The 7th Pan American Games were held in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 12 to October 26, 1975, exactly twenty years after the 2nd Pan American Games were held there... |
| George T. Winston George T. Winston George Tayloe Winston was an American educator and university administrator.-Early years:Winston was born at Windsor, North Carolina, to Patrick Henry Winston and Martha Elizabeth Byrd, and the brother of Francis D. Winston. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1866 to 1868, where he... |
Former president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
Professors
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| Dan Ariely Dan Ariely Dan Ariely is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight.-Biography:... |
Grad. | Cognitive Psychology | Alfred P. Sloan Alfred P. Sloan Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Corporation... Professor of Behavioral Economics and Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
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| Donald H. Baucom Donald H. Baucom Donald H. Baucom, Ph.D. is a clinical psychology faculty member at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is recognized for founding the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy Baucom is also recognized as one of the top marital therapists and most prolific researchers in this field... |
1971 / Grad. | Psychology | Professor of psychology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Lewis Binford Lewis Binford Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period... |
1954 | Arts & Sciences | Archeologist | |
| Albert Coates | 1918 | Arts & Sciences | Founder and Director of the Institute of Government University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century... |
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| Dan T. Carter Dan T. Carter -Life:He graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967.He taught at the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin.... |
Grad. | History | Professor of history at the University of South Carolina University of South Carolina The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House... |
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| W. H. Clatworthy W. H. Clatworthy Willard H. Clatworthy, was a professor emeritus from University of Buffalo and a World War II veteran from Williamsville, New York. He is known for his work in BIBD designs and combinatorial mathematics. Clatworthy received his Ph.D. in the year 1952 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel... |
Grad. | Statistics | Professor of mathematics at the University of Buffalo | |
| Robert Digges Wimberly Connor Robert Digges Wimberly Connor Robert Digges Wimberly Connor was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States, 1934-1941. He was born to Henry G. Connor and Kate Whitfield Connor on September 26, 1878, in Wilson, North Carolina... |
1899 | Philosophy | UNC professor, historian, and Archivist of the United States Archivist of the United States The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress... |
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| David L. Downie David L. Downie David Leonard Downie is an American scholar focusing on international environmental politics and policy and currently serves as Director of the Program on the Environment and Associate Professor of Political Science at Fairfield University.-Research and writings:Downie has written extensively on... |
Grad. | Political Science | Author; Commentator; Professor of Politics and Environment Policy at Fairfield University Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the... |
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| Glenda Gilmore Glenda Gilmore Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is an award-winning historian of the American South at Yale University.-Life:An eighth-generation North Carolinian, Gilmore received her B.A. in Psychology from Wake Forest University... |
Grad. | History | Peter V. & C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
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| Bud Goodall H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr. Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr is an American scholar of human communication and a writer of narrative ethnography. He is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University... |
Grad. | Speech | Professor of Communication at Arizona State University Arizona State University Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona... |
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| Peter Blair Henry Peter Blair Henry Peter Blair Henry, a Jamaican American economist, is Dean of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Previously, he was the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University.... |
1991 | Economics | Dean of New York University Stern School of Business New York University Stern School of Business The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is New York University's business school. It was established in 1900 as the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. In 1988 it was named after Leonard N. Stern, an alumnus and benefactor of the school... |
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| Robert Hobbs Robert Hobbs Robert Carleton Hobbs is an art historian and curator specializing in twentieth century art. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the highly respected School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale... |
Grad. | Art History | Professor of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968... |
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| Rafat Hussain Rafat Hussain Dr Rafat Hussain اردو: ڈاکٹر رفعت حسین is an Associate Professor in Health Management and Deputy Head of the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.-Early life:... |
Grad. | Public Health | Deputy Head of the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England University of New England University of New England may refer to:* University of New England , in New South Wales* University of New England , in Biddeford, Maine... , Australia |
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| John D. Kasarda John D. Kasarda John D. Kasarda is an American academic focused on global management strategy, aviation and economic development. He is currently the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kasarda is... |
1971 | Sociology | Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler Business School Kenan-Flagler Business School The Kenan-Flagler Business School is the undergraduate and graduate business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration , MBA for Executives, Master of Accounting, Ph.D., a business... , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States... , developer of the aerotropolis Aerotropolis An aerotropolis is an urban form whose layout, infrastructure, and economy is centered on an airport, offering its businesses speedy connectivity to suppliers, customers, and enterprise partners worldwide. Many of these businesses are much more dependent on distant suppliers or customers than to... concept |
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| Jack Knight Jack Knight (political scientist) Jack Knight is a renowned political scientist and legal theorist. His academic contributions are about political, social, and law theory. He is currently a professor of politics, philosophy and economics at Duke University School of Law and at the Duke's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences... |
1974 / Grad. | English & Religious Studies / Law | Professor at Duke University School of Law Duke University School of Law The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity... |
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| Christina Kramer Christina Kramer Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures which is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.... |
Grad. | Slavic languages and literature | Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages at University of Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... |
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| Leo Moser Leo Moser Leo Moser was an Austrian-Canadian mathematician, best known for his polygon notation.... |
Grad. | Mathematics | Professor of Mathematics at University of Alberta University of Alberta The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada... |
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| Charles Nam Charles Nam Charles B. Nam was born in Lynbrook, New York on March 25, 1926, and currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. He was a Professor of Sociology for 31 years with one of his most important contributions being the Nam-Powers Index measuring occupational status.-Education:Charles Nam attended an Army... |
Grad. | Sociology | Professor of Sociology at Florida State University Florida State University The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation... |
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| Kai Nielsen | 1949 | Professor of philosophy at Concordia University Concordia University Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction... |
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| Arthur F. Raper Arthur F. Raper -Biography:Arthur Franklin Raper grew up in Davidson County, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received an M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1925, he started a PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard W.... |
1924 / Grad. | Sociology | Professor at Agnes Scott College Agnes Scott College Agnes Scott College is a private undergraduate college in the United States. Agnes Scott's campus lies in downtown Decatur, Georgia, nestled inside the perimeter of the bustling metro-Atlanta area.... |
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| D. W. Robertson, Jr. D. W. Robertson, Jr. Durant Waite Robertson, Jr., was a scholar of medieval English literature and especially Geoffrey Chaucer... |
1935 / Grad. | English | Professor of medieval English at Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
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| David Robinson David Robinson -Sports personalities:*David Robinson , American player*David Robinson , cricketer*David Robinson , English professional player; striker from 1988 to 1998... |
Grad. | Business Administration | Professor of Marketing at Haas School of Business Haas School of Business The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley.... , University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... |
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| Caryl Rusbult Caryl Rusbult Caryl E. Rusbult was a professor and chair of the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She died from uterine cancer on January 27, 2010. Rusbult received her B.A. in Sociology from UCLA and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University... |
Grad. | Psychology | Professor of psychology at Vrije Universiteit Vrije Universiteit The Vrije Universiteit is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch name is often abbreviated as VU and in English the university uses the name "VU University". The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern part of Amsterdam in the Buitenveldert district... |
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| Scott Silliman Scott Silliman Scott L. Silliman is a Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School, and Executive Director of Duke Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security... |
1965 / Grad. | Philosophy / Law | Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School | |
| Carol Miller Swain Carol Miller Swain Carol M. Swain is an American political scientist and Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership, representation, evangelical politics and the Constitution. Her most recent book is Be the People: A Call to... |
Grad. | Political Science | Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School | |
| William Y. Thompson William Y. Thompson William Young Thompson is a retired historian who was affiliated for most of his academic career, from 1955 through 1988, with Louisiana Tech University at Ruston in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana... |
Grad. | History | Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings... |
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| Greg Turk Greg Turk Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a Professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology... |
Grad. | Computer science | Professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States... |
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| Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history.... |
Grad. | History | Professor of International History at the London School of Economics London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London... and Convenor of the International History Department |
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Artists
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| Richard Adler Richard Adler Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950... |
1943 | Dramatic art | Composer and lyricist |
| Richard Kern Richard Kern Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time... |
1977 | Art | Photographer |
| Howard Little Howard Little Howard Little was an American artist. A native of North Carolina, he spent the last year of his life in Geneva, Switzerland.... |
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| Ben Long Ben Long Ben Long is an American painter and the grandson of noted artist McKendree Robbins Long.-Background:Reared in a family of artists, writers, professors, and university presidents, Long was as precocious in his artistic ability as he was eager to apply it... |
1967 | Artist | |
Playwrights
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| Paul Green | 1921 | Dramatic art | Playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Kermit Hunter Kermit Hunter Kermit Houston Hunter American playwright known primarily for writing outdoor historical dramas.Born in McDowell County, West Virginia in 1910, Hunter went on to Ohio State University where he graduated in 1931. After graduation, he held a number of jobs and joined the U.S. Army in 1940... |
Grad. | Dramatic art and English | Playwright |
| Amon Liner Amon Liner Amon Liner was an American poet and playwright.-Biography:Amon Liner was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in English from Kenyon College, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Masters in Drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a... |
1965 | Dramatic art | Poet and playwright |
Poets
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| Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers Edgar Bowers was an American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989.Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia in 1924. During World War II he joined the military and served in Counter-intelligence against Germany... |
1950 | Poet | |
| Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years... |
1943 | Journalism | Poet and winner of the National Book Award |
| Cid Corman Cid Corman Cid Corman was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.-Early life and writing:... |
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers... |
1941 | Journalism | Poet and publisher |
| Kerri French Kerri French -Life:Originally from North Carolina, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro's Master of Fine Arts program in 2006. She has taught at Boston University and Mount Ida College... |
2003 | English | Poet |
| Patrick Herron Patrick Herron Patrick Herron is an American poet, electronic musician , and innovation dynamics research analyst at Duke University. He is the creator of and founder of the annual .- Publications :* ... |
1993 / Grad. | Philosophy and Information Science | Poet and Information Scientist |
| Donald Justice Donald Justice Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr has written, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his... |
Grad. | English | Poet |
| Amon Liner Amon Liner Amon Liner was an American poet and playwright.-Biography:Amon Liner was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in English from Kenyon College, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Masters in Drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a... |
1965 | Dramatic art | Poet and playwright |
| William Matthews William Matthews (poet) William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.-Life:Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews... |
Grad. | English | Poet |
| Michael McFee Michael McFee - McFee's Professional Life :McFee earned his B.A. and M.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill. He left graduate school to work a variety of jobs--editorial assistant, librarian, and freelance journalist among them--while he completed his first book. After it was published, he taught part-time at N.C. State... |
1976 / Grad. | English | Poet |
| Michael Rothenberg Michael Rothenberg Michael Rothenberg is an American poet, songwriter, editor, and active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Rothenberg received his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
1973 | English | Poet and editor |
Writers
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| Daphne Athas | 1943 | English | Novelist |
| Russell Banks Russell Banks Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also... |
1967 | English | Novelist and poet |
| Taylor Branch Taylor Branch Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement... |
1968 | Author and historian | |
| Poppy Z. Brite Poppy Z. Brite Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections... |
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| Will Blythe Will Blythe Will Blythe is a magazine writer and book author living in New York City. He is a former literary editor at Esquire magazine but is now a contributing editor for Harper's and Mirabella, and writes for many other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Elle, and... |
1979 | English | Writer and author |
| Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.- Background :Sarah Dessen was born in Evanston, Illinois on June 6, 1970. She moved with her family to Virginia then North Carolina where she now resides with her husband, Jay, daughter Sasha Clementine, and dogs... |
1993 | English | Writer and author |
| Clyde Edgerton Clyde Edgerton Clyde Edgerton is an American author and English literature professor.Born in Durham, North Carolina, his books are known for endearing characters, small-town Southern dialogue and realistic fire and brimstone religious sermons... |
1966 / Grad. | English | Novelist |
| Thomas Fleming Thomas Fleming (author) Thomas Fleming is a traditionalist Catholic writer, president of the Rockford Institute, and editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, a political commentary periodical, published monthly, and directed at a paleoconservative audience.... |
Grad. | Classics | Writer and founding editor of neo-confederate Neo-confederate Neo-Confederate is a term used by some academics and political activists to describe the views of various groups and individuals who have a positive belief system concerning the historical experience of the Confederate States of America, the Southern secession, and the Southern United... journal Southern Partisan Southern Partisan Southern Partisan is a right-wing political magazine published in the United States founded in 1979 that focuses on its Southern region and those states that were formerly members of the Confederate States of America. Its first editor was Thomas Fleming... |
| Shelby Foote Shelby Foote Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the... |
1992 | Honorary | Historian and novelist |
| Ben Fountain Ben Fountain Ben Fountain is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas.-Pre-writing career:Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1984... |
1980 | English | Writer and author |
| Charles Frazier Charles Frazier Charles Frazier is an award-winning American historical novelist.Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University... |
1973 | Novelist | |
| L. M. Elliott | Grad. | Journalism | Young adult novelist |
| Gail Godwin Gail Godwin Gail Kathleen Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List.Godwin was... |
1960 | Journalism | Novelist |
| Randall Kenan Randall Kenan Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was... |
1985 | English | Writer |
| Armistead Maupin Armistead Maupin Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, based in San Francisco.-Early life:... |
1966 | English | Novelist |
| Richard McKenna Richard McKenna Richard Milton McKenna was an American sailor and writer.-Early life:McKenna was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, on May 9, 1913. Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S... |
1956 | Arts & Sciences | Novelist |
| Lydia Millet Lydia Millet Lydia Millet is an American novelist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award... |
1990 | Interdisciplinary studies | Novelist |
| Joseph Mitchell | Writer for The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
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| Lawrence Naumoff Lawrence Naumoff Lawrence Naumoff is a fiction writer who currently lives in Carrboro, North Carolina. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was educated at the University of North Carolina, where he currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program.... |
1969 | Arts & Sciences | Novelist |
| Mary Pope Osborne Mary Pope Osborne Mary Pope Osborne is an American children's book author. She is best known for her award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series, which has been translated into over 20 languages and sold over 53 million copies.-Background:... |
1971 | Religious Studies | Author |
| Walker Percy Walker Percy Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962... |
1937 | Arts & Sciences | Novelist |
| Melanie Sumner Melanie Sumner Melanie Sumner is an American novelist.She grew up in Rome, Georgia as a child and graduated from University of North Carolina and Boston University. Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University... |
1986 | Religious studies | Novelist |
| Daniel Wallace Daniel Wallace (author) Daniel Wallace is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, the basis for the Tim Burton film Big Fish. His other books include Ray in Reverse and The Watermelon King... |
2008 | English | Novelist and teacher |
| Thomas Wolfe Thomas Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe was a major American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing... |
1920 | Arts & Sciences | Novelist |
Other
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| Brent Glass Brent Glass Brent D. Glass is Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. A national leader in the preservation, interpretation and promotion of history, Glass is a public historian who pioneered influential oral history and material culture studies... |
Grad. | History | Director of the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines... National Museum of American History National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's... |
| Alexander Julian Alexander Julian Alexander Julian is an American clothing designer. He is most notable for his Colours clothing brand.-Early life:Born to Mary Brady and Maurice S. Julian, Julian was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a childhood playmate of James Taylor. His father, Maurice S. Julian , was a clothier who... |
1969 | Fashion designer | |
| Paul R. Laird | Grad. | Music | Musicologist |
| Robert Spencer (author) | Grad. | Religious studies Religious studies Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to... |
Author and blogger best known for Critiques of Islam Criticism of Islam Criticism of Islam has existed since Islam's formative stages. Early written criticism came from Christians, prior to the ninth century, many of whom viewed Islam as a radical Christian heresy... and Research Research Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method... of Islamic terrorism and Jihad Jihad Jihad , an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God ". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is... |
| C. Vann Woodward C. Vann Woodward Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by... |
Grad. | History | Historian |
Business
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
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| John Allison John A. Allison IV John Allison was born on August 14, 1948, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began his career with BB&T in 1971 following his graduation from the University of North Carolina with a degree in business administration... |
1971 | Business Administration | Chairman, BB&T Corporation/Branch Banking & Trust Co BB&T BB&T Corporation is an American bank with assets of $157 billion , offering full-service commercial and retail banking services along with other financial services like insurance, investments, retail brokerage, mortgage, corporate finance, consumer finance, payment services, international... |
| Max C. Chapman Max C. Chapman Max Carrol Chapman Jr. was the President and CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co., the investment banking and broker-dealer subsidiary of the parent, Kidder, Peabody Group, Inc... |
1966 | Economics | Former president and CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co |
| Warren Grice Elliott Warren Grice Elliott Warren Grice Elliott was president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad starting in 1902.-Biography:He was born on March 22, 1848 and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 1867, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity... |
1867 | President of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlantic Coast Line Railroad The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American railroad that existed between 1900 and 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad... |
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| David Gardner David Gardner David Gardner is one of the three founders of The Motley Fool, established in 1993.He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship, graduating in 1988. He was a writer for Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street newsletter before joining the Motley Fool... |
1988 | English | Co-founder of The Motley Fool |
| Peaches Golding Peaches Golding Lois Patricia Golding, OBE, commonly known as Peaches Golding was born on 13 December 1953, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2010 she became the first female Afro-American High Sheriff of Bristol... , neé Hauser |
1976 | Biology | High Sheriff of Bristol High Sheriff of Bristol This is a list of High Sheriffs of the County of City of Bristol, England.The office of High Sheriff is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... , 2010-11 |
| Bowman Gray, Sr. Bowman Gray, Sr. Bowman Gray, Sr. was a former president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and a major benefactor of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.... |
1890 | Did not graduate | Former President and Chairman of R.J. Reynolds R.J. Reynolds Richard Joshua "R. J." Reynolds was an American businessman and founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.... |
| William B. Harrison, Jr. William B. Harrison, Jr. William B. Harrison, Jr., born August 12, 1943 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was admitted... |
1966 | Economics | Former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase |
| George Watts Hill George Watts Hill George Watts Hill was an American banker, hospital administrator and philanthropist who played a key role in the socioeconomic development of Durham, North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park... |
1922 / Grad. | Commerce / Law | Banker and philanthropist |
| John Sprunt Hill John Sprunt Hill John Sprunt Hill was a North Carolina lawyer, banker and philanthropist who played a fundamental role in the civic and social development of Durham, North Carolina, the expansion of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the development of rural credit unions in North Carolina during... |
1889 | Philosophy | Banker and philanthropist |
| Walter E. Hussman, Jr. Walter E. Hussman, Jr. Walter E. Hussman, Jr. , is a third-generation newspaper publisher and chief executive officer of a mass media conglomerate known as WEHCO Media, Inc... |
1969 | Journalism | Publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census... |
| Richard "Dick" Jenrette Richard Jenrette Richard Hampton Jenrette was one the founders of the Wall Street firm, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette .-Education and Business Career:... |
1951 | Founder of the Wall Street Wall Street Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or... firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette or DLJ is a defunct U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research;... and Chairman and CEO of world insurance leader The Equitable AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, also known as The Equitable, was founded by Henry Baldwin Hyde in 1859. In 1991, AXA, a French insurance company, acquired majority control of The Equitable... from 1990 to 1996 |
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| William Johnson William D. Johnson (CEO) William "Bill" Dean Johnson is the Chairman, President, and CEO of Progress Energy.-Early life and career:Johnson graduated from Duke University summa cum laude with a bachelor degree in history. He also obtained a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982. After... |
Grad. | Law | President and CEO of Progress Energy |
| Paul Kolton Paul Kolton Paul Kolton was an American reporter, mystery writer and public relations executive who worked for the New York Stock Exchange and became president and then chairman of the American Stock Exchange despite having no prior experience as a stockbroker... |
1944 | Journalism | Chairman of the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange NYSE Amex Equities, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange situated in New York. AMEX was a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the... . |
| Sallie Krawcheck Sallie Krawcheck Sallie L. Krawcheck , is the former president of the Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America. GWIM includes Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust, the largest wealth management business in the world at $2.3 trillion in client assets... |
1987 | Journalism | Chairman and CEO of Citigroup Global Wealth Management and former CFO of Citigroup Inc. |
| Jason Kilar Jason Kilar Jason Kilar is the current CEO of Hulu, a joint venture of ABC, NBC Universal, and NewsCorp. He was previously an Amazon executive. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.... |
1993 | Journalism and Business Administration | CEO of Hulu Hulu Hulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other... |
| Howard R. Levine Howard R. Levine Howard R. Levine is the current Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Family Dollar and is the son of Leon Levine, the Founder of Family Dollar.-Education:... |
1981 | Business Administration | Chairman of the board and CEO of Family Dollar Family Dollar Family Dollar is a regional chain of variety stores in the United States. It opened in 1959 and operates approximately 6,617 stores in 44 states and the District of Columbia. It is headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina.... |
| Scott Livengood Scott Livengood Scott Livengood is the former CEO of Krispy Kreme Corporation, which makes doughnuts. A native of Salisbury, North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-educated man started working for Krispy Kreme in 1977, then a privately held company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina... |
1974 | Industrial relations | Owner and CEO of Dewey's Bakers and former CEO of Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme is the name of an international chain of doughnut stores that was founded by Vernon Rudolph in 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The parent company of Krispy Kreme is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc... |
| Hugh McColl Hugh McColl Hugh L. McColl Jr. is a fourth-generation banker and the former Chairman and CEO of Bank of America. McColl was a driving force behind consolidating a series of progressively larger, mostly Southern banks, thrifts and financial institutions into a super-regional banking force, "the first... |
1957 | Business administration | Former CEO of Bank of America Bank of America Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina... |
| Allen B. Morgan, Jr. Allen B. Morgan, Jr. Allen Benners Morgan, Jr. is an American business man who was among the founders and served as chairman and CEO of regional brokerage firm Morgan Keegan & Company, based in Memphis, Tennessee.-Early life:... |
1965 | History | Founder and former CEO of Morgan Keegan & Company Morgan Keegan & Company Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. is the investment banking, securities brokerage, trust, and asset management division of Regions Financial Corporation. The company was founded in 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee and has over 450 offices in 20 states, over 4,000 employees, and over $890 million in equity... |
| Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III Mercer Reynolds Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III is an American businessman. He was the finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's presidential campaign.-Education and early career:... |
1967 | Business administration | Finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... 2004 re-election campaign and a U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan... |
| Julian Robertson Julian Robertson Julian H. Robertson Jr., KNZM is an American former hedge fund manager. Now retired, Robertson invests directly in other hedge funds, most run by former employees of Robertson's defunct hedge fund company.... |
1955 | Business administration | Founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp. |
| Bill Ruger | 1940 | Did not graduate | Founded firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger Sturm, Ruger Sturm, Ruger & Company, Incorporated is a Southport, Connecticut-based firearm manufacturing company, better known by the shortened name Ruger. Sturm, Ruger produces bolt-action, semi-automatic, full-automatic, and single-shot rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic pistols, and single- and double-action... |
| Pete Rummell | 1967 | Chemistry/English literature | Former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering Walt Disney Imagineering Walt Disney Imagineering is the design and development arm of the Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation and construction of Disney theme parks worldwide... and St. Joe Company St. Joe Company The St. Joe Company is a land development company formerly headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is Florida's second largest private landowner, owning about in the state at the end of 2009.-Beginning:... |
| Marcus G. Smith Marcus G. Smith Marcus G. Smith is president and chief operating officer and director of NASCAR track owner Speedway Motorports, Inc. and general manager of SMI owned Charlotte Motor Speedway. He is the son of SMI CEO Bruton Smith.-Background:... |
Did not graduate | Journalism | President and COO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or SMI is an American corporation that owns and manages racing facilities that host NASCAR, IZOD IndyCar Series, NHRA, WoO other racing series. The company's headquarters are located at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC. SMI owns nine racing... |
| Ken Thompson G. Kennedy Thompson G. Kennedy "Ken" Thompson is an American businessman who was previously chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008... |
1973 | American studies | Former Chairman and CEO of Wachovia Wachovia Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets... |
Actors
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
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| Whit Bissell Whit Bissell Whitner Nutting Bissell , better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.-Early life:Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at... |
1932 | Arts & Sciences | Actor |
| Dan Cortese Dan Cortese Daniel James "Dan" Cortese ; born September 14, 1967) is an American actor, director and spokesperson. He is known for his roles as Perry Rollins on Veronica's Closet and as Vic Meladeo on What I Like About You.-Early life:... |
1990 | Radio, television & motion picture | Actor and TV personality |
| Billy Crudup Billy Crudup William Gaither "Billy" Crudup is an American actor of film and stage. He is well known for his roles as guitarist Russell Hammond in Almost Famous, Will Bloom in Big Fish, and Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke. He also starred in the 2007 romantic comedy film Dedication, alongside Mandy Moore... |
1990 | Speech | Actor |
| Michael Cumpsty Michael Cumpsty Michael Cumpsty is a British actor. He has been acting since childhood. He has worked extensively performing Shakespeare, as well as both musicals and dramas on Broadway... |
1982 / Grad. | English / Dramatic art | Actor |
| Melissa Claire Egan Melissa Claire Egan Melissa Claire Egan is an American actress. Egan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Dramatic Art. She has guest-starred on such television series as Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill. Her debut film role was as Ali Court in the 2005 movie, Wrestling... |
2003 | Dramatic art | Soap opera actress, Annie Lavery Annie Lavery Annie Novak, more commonly known as Annie Lavery , is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama All My Children. She has been portrayed by Melissa Claire Egan since July 10, 2006... on All My Children All My Children All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most... . |
| John Forsythe John Forsythe John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's... |
1948 | Actor | |
| Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher is an American actress best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and as Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also guest starred on the science fiction television series Heroes... |
1957 | Dramatic art | Academy Award-winning Actress |
| Rick Fox Rick Fox Ulrich Alexander "Rick" Fox is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 2004.-Early life:... |
1994 | Radio, television & motion picture | Actor & former professional basketball player |
| Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead... |
1949 | Dramatic art | Actor, comedian, writer, and producer |
| George Grizzard George Grizzard George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. was an American actor of film and stage. He appeared in more than 40 films, dozens of television programs and a number of Broadway plays.-Life and career:... |
1949 | Radio, television & motion picture | Actor |
| Liza Huber Liza Huber Liza Victoria Huber is an American actress best known for her role as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime soap Passions.-Personal life:... |
Soap opera actress (formerly Gwen Hotchkiss on Passions Passions Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008.... ), daughter of Susan Lucci Susan Lucci Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the... . |
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| Ken Jeong Ken Jeong Kendrick Kang-Joh "Ken" Jeong , also known as "Dr. Ken," is an American comedian, actor, and physician. Currently, he appears as Ben Chang on the NBC comedy series Community.-Early life and medical career:... |
Grad. | Medicine | Actor and comedian |
| Darwin Joston Darwin Joston Francis Darwin Solomon was an American actor known professionally as Darwin Joston... |
1960 | Dramatic art | Actor |
| Ben Jones Ben Jones (US) Ben Lewis Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright and essayist, probably best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones was elected to be a member of the United States House of Representatives in 1988 and re-elected in 1990. He served for four years, until Jan... |
Actor and former U.S. Representative from Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... |
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| Kay Kyser Kay Kyser James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin... |
1928 | Economics | Popular bandleader, radio personality, and movie actor in the 1930s and 1940s |
| Sharon Lawrence Sharon Lawrence Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence is an American television actress. She is best known for the role of Sylvia Costas Sipowicz in the Television series NYPD Blue... |
1983 | Journalism | Emmy Award nominated actress |
| Michael Louden Michael Louden Michael Louden was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts and went on to become an actor. He studied theater at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but graduated from Juilliard. He started as a 1988 day player on daytime soap Another World but his most notable role was Duke Kramer As the... |
Actor | ||
| Crystal McLaurin-Coney Crystal McLaurin-Coney Crystal McLaurin-Coney, is an actress, model and host currently working in Los Angeles. She has worked in the industry for over 14 years with such clients as Goody's Headache Powder, UPS, Hanes Her Way and The NC College Foundation, to name a few... |
1993 | Journalism | Actress |
| Jack Palance Jack Palance Jack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr... |
1949 | Actor (transferred to Stanford and graduated from there) | |
| Jeff Richards Jeff Richards (comedian) Jeffrey Hanson "Jeff" Richards is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. Richards was the first actor to have been a cast member on both Saturday Night Live and MADtv... |
1998 | Communications | Actor and comedian |
| Randolph Scott Randolph Scott Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few... |
Did not graduate | Actor | |
| Jay Thomas Jay Thomas Jay Thomas is an American actor, comedian and radio talk show host.-Personal life:Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas. He was raised in his Italian American mother's Roman Catholic faith, although his father was Protestant.... |
Actor and winner of Emmy Award for portraying "Jerry Gold" in "Murphy Brown" | ||
Broadcasters
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
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| Andrew Ballen Andrew Ballen Andrew Craig Ballen is a Jamaican-American television producer, A&R executive, entrepreneur and television personality, based in Shanghai, China.... |
1995 | Political science | TV personality, producer, A&R A&R Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :... executive in Mainland China Mainland China Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and... |
| Howie Carr Howie Carr Howard Louis "Howie" Carr, Jr. is an American journalist, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England.-Radio:... |
1973 | Journalism | Radio personality |
| Rick Dees Rick Dees Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III is an American comedic performer, entertainer, and radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." He is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated... |
1972 | Radio, television & motion picture | Radio personality and composer of novelty song Novelty song A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music. The other two divisions... "Disco Duck" |
| Barry Farber Barry Farber Barry M. Farber is an American conservative radio talk show host, author and language-learning enthusiast. In 2002, industry publication Talkers magazine ranked him the 9th greatest radio talk show host of all time. He has also written articles appearing in the New York Times, Reader's Digest,... |
1952 | Journalism | Conservative radio talk show host |
| Ashlan Gorse Ashlan Gorse Ashlan Gorse is an American entertainment journalist who works as a correspondent and fill-in anchor for E!: Entertainment Television. She joined the network in May 2008... |
2002 | Journalism | E! television network personality |
| Kit Hoover Kit Hoover Catherine "Kit" Hoover is an American television personality, sportscaster and broadcast journalist, best-known for her stints on Fox News Channel and ESPN... |
1992 | Speech | Television personality |
| Kwame Jackson Kwame Jackson Kwame Jackson is an American entrepreneur who appeared on NBC's The Apprentice, a reality series where contestants compete for a chance to work under real estate mogul Donald Trump... |
1996 | Business administration | Finished second in the first season of "The Apprentice" |
| Bomani Jones Bomani Jones Bomani Jones is the host of "The Morning Jones" on The Score on Sirius radio channel 158. Jones is a regular panelist on Around the Horn and Jim Rome is Burning as well as appearances on Outside the Lines on ESPN and ESPN First Take on ESPN 2. He also periodically writes on Page 2 for... |
Grad. | Economics | Radio and television personality |
| Kay Kyser Kay Kyser James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin... |
1928 | Economics | Popular bandleader, radio personality, and movie actor in the 1930s and 1940s |
| Chris Matthews Chris Matthews Christopher John "Chris" Matthews is an American news anchor and political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC... |
Grad. | Did not graduate | Television personality and speechwriter for President Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... |
| Wes Moss | 1998 | Economics | Contestant on "The Apprentice 2" who now teaches at Emory University Emory University Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of... . |
| Rick Sebak Rick Sebak Richard "Rick" Sebak is an American film director and producer who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.Sebak is the creator of the "scrapbook documentary" genre, many of which he has created for WQED and PBS... |
1975 | English | WQED WQED (TV) WQED is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established April 1, 1954, it was the first community-sponsored television station in the United States as well as the fifth public TV station... personality |
Musicians
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Ballance Laura Ballance Laura Ballance is the bassist in the rock band Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records along with Mac McCaughan.-References:... |
1990 | Anthropology | Bassist in the rock band Superchunk Superchunk Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s... and co-founder of Merge Records Merge Records Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records... |
| Meg Christian Meg Christian Meg Christian is an American folk singer associated with the Women's music movement.-Biography:She graduated from the University of North Carolina and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1969, where she performed in nightclubs and began writing material from an explicitly political and feminist perspective... |
1968 | Music | Singer and founder of lesbian record company, Olivia |
| Anoop Desai Anoop Desai Anoop Desai is an American singer-songwriter best known for his time as a contestant on the eighth season of American Idol. Motivated by the death of his friend Eve Carson, Desai auditioned for American Idol. Desai made American Idol history by being the first ever 13th finalist on American Idol... |
2008 | Political science and American studies | American Idol American Idol American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment... 6th place finalist, singer |
| Lisa Furukawa Lisa Furukawa Lisa Furukawa is a Japanese American pianist, singer, and songwriter.Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Lisa began studying the piano at the age of three. She has BA’s in Music and Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is an educator and translator as well as a... |
1999 | Music and Asian studies | Pianist, singer, and songwriter |
| George Hamilton George Hamilton IV George Hege Hamilton IV is an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to country music in the early 1960s.-Biography:Hamilton was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina... |
Country music singer | ||
| Wayne Handy Wayne Handy -Early life:Wayne Jackson Handy was born on May 14, 1935 in what is now Eden, North Carolina. He grew up in neighboring Reidsville, North Carolina, a once thriving tobacco town and home to the American Tobacco Company. Wayne's father was a farmer and letter carrier, and his mother a housewife... |
1962 | Business Administration | Rockabilly singer |
| Brendan James Brendan James Brendan James is an American singer-songwriter originally from Derry, New Hampshire, who started in New York City but is currently residing in California... |
2002 | Communications | American singer and songwriter |
| Kay Kyser Kay Kyser James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin... |
1928 | Economics | Popular bandleader, radio personality, and movie actor in the 1930s and 1940s |
| Lachi Lachi Lachi is a singer-songwriter, pianist and author based in New York City. Her music is often described as jazz influenced, piano driven alternative rock.-Early life:... |
2005 | Economics, Management and Society | Alternative rock artist, Author |
| Tift Merritt Tift Merritt Catherine Tift Merritt is an American singer-songwriter, musician and North Carolina native. With her longtime band, she has built what has been called a "unique" and critically acclaimed body of work of "sonic short stories and poignant performances." She has been compared to songwriters like... |
2000 | Singer | |
| Oliver Oliver (William Oliver Swofford) William Oliver Swofford , known professionally as Oliver, was an American pop singer. Born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, he began singing as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1960s... |
1967 | Radio, television & motion picture | Pop singer |
| David Olney David Olney David Charles Olney is an American folk singer/songwriter. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but did not graduate, instead joining Bland Simpson's band Simpson in the early 1970s... |
– | Did not graduate | Musician |
| Bud Shank Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos. He spent the 1960s as a first... |
1947 | Musician | |
Writers, producers, directors
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead... |
1949 | Dramatic art | Actor, comedian, writer, and producer |
| Brian Hargrove Brian Hargrove David Brian Hargrove is an American television writer and producer.He earned his BFA degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and studied acting at the Juilliard School... |
1977 | Dramatic art | American TV writer and producer |
| Larry Peerce Larry Peerce Larry Peerce is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, and One Potato, Two Potato , the first U.S... |
1951 | Film and television director | |
| Michael Piller Michael Piller Michael Piller was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.-Early life and career:Piller was born in Port Chester, New York... |
1970 | Radio, television & motion picture | Writer for and Co-Creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe... and Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while... |
| Peyton Reed Peyton Reed Peyton Reed is an American television and film director.Reed was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reed directed the motion pictures Bring It On, Down with Love, and The Break-Up; all comedy films... |
1986 | Radio, television & motion picture | Director of Bring It On Bring It On (film) Bring It On is a 2000 teen comedy film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union... and The Break-Up The Break-Up The Break-Up is a 2006 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Peyton Reed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. It was written by Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick and produced by Universal Pictures.-Plot:... |
| Hughes Winborne Hughes Winborne Hughes Winborne is a Hollywood film editor. He has edited 20 films, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing in the 78th Academy Awards. He also edited Sling Blade and The Pursuit of Happyness .... |
1975 | History | Film editor and 2005 Academy Award Academy Awards An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers... -Winner for Crash Crash (2004 film) Crash is a 2004 American drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video... |
| Josh Pate Josh Pate Joshua Warren "Josh" Pate is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He wrote The Grave, Deceiver, and The Take. He also co-created Good vs Evil and Surface... |
1992 | English | Screenwriter, director and producer. |
Other
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Black Lewis Black Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena... |
1970 | Dramatic art | Comedian and playwright |
| Wyatt Cenac Wyatt Cenac Wyatt Cenac is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is currently working as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.-Early years:... |
1994 | Did Not Graduate | Comedian and Producer |
| Jeff MacNelly Jeff MacNelly Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:... |
1969 | Art | Creator of Shoe comic strip |
Journalism
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Angell Jones Angell Jones Angell is the play-by-play voice of North Carolina Tar Heels football and men's basketball.Angell graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and immediately joined the Tar Heel Sports Network... |
2001 | Journalism | Sportscaster and voice of the Tar Heels |
| Brooke Baldwin Brooke Baldwin Brooke Baldwin is an American news anchor. She appears on the weekday edition of CNN Newsroom.-Early life and career:Baldwin attended United States Space Camp at the age of 13 and served as commander of her mission there... |
2001 | Journalism and Spanish | Television journalist |
| Jack Betts Jack Betts (journalist) Jack Betts is a journalist and columnist for the Charlotte Observer, where he holds the title Associate Editor. He is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and writes primarily on topics related to North Carolina government and politics.... |
1968 | Journalism | Editor and columnist for the Charlotte Observer |
| Furman Bisher Furman Bisher Furman Bisher is a columnist for the Gwinnett Daily Post in Gwinnett County, Georgia. He ended his retirement from writing on January 4th, 2010.... |
1938 | Journalism | Sportswriter and editor |
| Marty Brennaman Marty Brennaman Franchester Martin "Marty" Brennaman , is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the radio voice of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds on the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network.-Early life:... |
1965 | Radio, television & motion picture | Sportscaster |
| David Brinkley David Brinkley David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.... |
– | Did not graduate | Television journalist |
| Frank Bruni Frank Bruni Frank Anthony Bruni is an American journalist. He was the chief restaurant critic of The New York Times, a position he held from 2004 to 2009. In May 2011, he became the first openly gay Op-Ed columnist of The New York Times.... |
1986 | English | Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times & Op-ed columnist for the same |
| Helene Cooper Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. Before that, she was the paper's diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C.... |
1987 | Journalism | New York Times correspondent |
| Laurie Dhue Laurie Dhue Laurie Walker Dhue now working for CNN, is a former Fox News Channel anchor from 2000–2008, reporting for the television show Geraldo at Large, which airs Saturday and Sunday nights, and the host of Fox Report Weekend... |
1990 | Political science | TV news anchor, reporter |
| Woody Durham Woody Durham Woody Lombardi Durham , known as "The Voice of the Tar Heels", was the longtime play-by-play radio announcer for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football and basketball teams from 1971 to 2011. Durham grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina alongside Bob Harris, longtime accouncer for UNC... |
1963 | Radio, television & motion picture | Sportscaster and voice of the Tar Heels |
| Samuel T. Francis | Grad. | History | Syndicated conservative columnist |
| Peter Gammons Peter Gammons Peter Gammons is an American sportswriter, media personality, and a recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA.-Education:... |
1967 | Sportswriter and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame | |
| Gail Gregg Gail Gregg Gail Gregg is an artist, photographer and journalist based in New York City.-Education:Gregg received her bachelors degree in journalism from Kansas State University in 1972, a master's in journalism from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975, and an MFA from Vermont College in 1998... |
1975 | Journalism | Artist, photographer and journalist |
| Carl Kasell Carl Kasell Carl Kasell is an American radio personality, most widely known as a newscaster for National Public Radio and as the official judge and scorekeeper of the weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.-Early life:... |
1956 | NPR newscaster | |
| Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt was an American journalist. He was most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years.Kuralt's "On the Road"... |
1965 | Radio, television & motion picture | Journalist |
| Jim Lampley Jim Lampley James "Jim" Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. Lampley has anchored a record 14 Olympic Games U.S. television broadcasts, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.... |
1971 | English | Sportscaster |
| Tristan Louis Tristan Louis Tristan Louis is a French-born American author, entrepreneur and blogger.-Early work:... |
1993 | Journalism | Author and journalist |
| Philip Meyer Philip Meyer Philip Meyer is professor emeritus and former holder of the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches in the areas of journalism quality, precision journalism, civic journalism, polling, the newspaper industry, and communications technology... |
Grad. | Political science | Journalist and professor of journalism |
| Monica Malpass Monica Malpass Monica Malpass is an American journalist and television anchor for WPVI Action News in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-anchor's the WPVI 5 p.m. weekday newscast and hosts the station's political talk show, Inside Story.... |
1983 | Journalism | News anchor and reporter for WPVI (Channel 6 Action News) in Philadelphia |
| Mick Mixon Mick Mixon Forest Orion "Mick" Mixon III is the play-by-play radio announcer for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Mixon took this position during the 2005 football season, replacing Bill Rosinski... |
1980 | Radio, television & movie picture | Sportscaster and voice of the Carolina Panthers Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion... |
| Roger Mudd Roger Mudd Roger Mudd is a U.S. television journalist and broadcaster, most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and hosted NBC's Meet the Press, and NBC's American... |
Grad. | History | Journalist and broadcaster |
| Rob Nelson Rob Nelson (reporter) Rob Nelson is currently co-anchor of the overnight news programs World News Now and America This Morning on ABC, joining Vinita Nair on July 12, 2010, then co-anchoring with Peggy Bunker February 21, 2011 to July 22, 2011... |
2000 | Journalism | Television journalist |
| Karen Parker Karen Parker Karen L. Parker, the first African-American woman undergraduate to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was born in Salisbury, North Carolina and grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Parker worked for the Winston-Salem Journal before attending UNC-Chapel Hill... |
1965 | Journalism | First African-American female undergraduate and journalist for the Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem Journal The Winston-Salem Journal is a daily newspaper primarily serving the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and its county, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It also features coverage of Northwestern North Carolina and circulates as far west as Tennessee and north to Virginia.The paper is owned by... |
| Don Robertson | 1950 | Communication | Sportscaster |
| Robert Ruark Robert Ruark Robert Ruark was an American author and syndicated columnist.- Early life :... |
1935 | Journalism | Syndicated columnist and author |
| Stuart Scott Stuart Scott Stuart Scott is a sportscaster and anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter.-Early life and career:Scott attended Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and went to college at the University of North Carolina. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity... |
1987 | Radio, television & motion picture | Sportscaster |
| James Surowiecki James Surowiecki James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page".-Background:... |
1988 | History | Journalist for The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... and author of The Wisdom of Crowds The Wisdom of Crowds The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better... |
| Ami Vitale Ami Vitale Ami Vitale is an American photojournalist. She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, National Geographic Magazine and The New York Times, among others and two stories which she completed... |
1994 | International studies | Photographer and journalist |
| Tom Wicker Tom Wicker Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker was an American journalist. He was best known as a political reporter and columnist for The New York Times.-Background and education:... |
1948 | Journalism | Author and New York Times journalist |
| Perry Deane Young Perry Deane Young Perry Deane Young is a journalist, author, playwright, historian, and professional gardener. He is the author of Two of the Missing, about fellow journalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, who went missing during the Vietnam War and whose fates remain unknown, and the co-author of The David Kopay... |
1993 | Journalism | Journalist and author |
Pulitzer Prize winners
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. Horace Carter W. Horace Carter Walter Horace Carter was an American newspaper publisher in Tabor City, North Carolina who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his reporting on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and his editorials opposing it. Filmmaker Walt Campbell is making a documentary about Carter tentatively titled,... |
1949 | Journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner for public service, owner and publisher of the Tabor City Tribune |
| Lenoir Chambers Lenoir Chambers Lenoir Chambers was a writer, biographer and newspaper editor. In 1960, as editor of The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia , he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for his series of editorials on desegregation and the school integration problem in Virginia... |
1914 | Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing, editor of The Virginian-Pilot The Virginian-Pilot The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia, and serving the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, southeastern Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The flagship property of Landmark Media Enterprises, The Pilot is Virginia's largest daily... |
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| Sarah Cohen | 1979 | Economics | Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting, professor at Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
| Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson is an American poet who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife.-Background:... |
Grad | Creative writing | Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry |
| Jeff MacNelly Jeff MacNelly Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the popular comic strip Shoe.-Early life:... |
Three time Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartoons | ||
| Gene Roberts Gene Roberts (journalist) Gene Roberts is an American journalist and professor of journalism. Roberts was national editor at The New York Times, executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 1990, and managing editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 1997... |
1954 | Journalism | Pulitzer prize winning author, former executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, former managing editor of The New York Times The New York Times The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization... , and professor of journalism at the University of Maryland University of Maryland When the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to the University of Maryland, College Park.University of Maryland may refer to the following:... |
| Vermont C. Royster | 1935 | Journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing and former editor of the Wall Street Journal |
| Melanie Sill | 1981 | Journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting, and editor of the Sacramento Bee |
| Pat Stith | 1966 | Journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting, investigative reporter at the News & Observer |
| Jim Yardley Jim Yardley James Barrett Yardley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist currently working in New Delhi.Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, class of '86... |
1986 | History | Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter |
| Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley is a book critic at The Washington Post, and at one time of the Washington Star. In 1981 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.-Background and education:... |
1961 | English | Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for the Washington Post |
| Edwin Yoder Edwin Yoder Edwin Milton Yoder is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.-Life:Yoder was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in English in 1956. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and studied PPE from 1956 to 1958... |
1956 | English | Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing |
President of the United States
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| James K. Polk James K. Polk James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee... |
1818 / Grad. | 11th President of the United States President of the United States The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.... |
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Vice President of the United States
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| William R. King William R. King William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama... |
1803 | 13th Vice President of the United States Vice President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term... |
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Governors
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles B. Aycock | 1880 | Oratory and essay writing | Former Governor of North Carolina |
| Aaron V. Brown Aaron V. Brown Aaron Venable Brown was a Governor of Tennessee and Postmaster General in the Buchanan administration. He was also the law partner of James K. Polk.-Biography:... |
1814 | Former Governor of and U.S. Representative from Tennessee, Postmaster General United States Postmaster General The United States Postmaster General is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence... |
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| John Branch John Branch John Branch, Jr. served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, the 19th Governor of the state of North Carolina, and was the sixth and last territorial governor of Florida.... |
1801 | Former Governor of and U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy | |
| Tod Robinson Caldwell Tod Robinson Caldwell Tod Robinson Caldwell was a lawyer and the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1871 to 1874.He was born in Morganton, North Carolina... |
1840 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Gaston Caperton Gaston Caperton William Gaston Caperton III was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1989 until 1997. He is currently the president of the College Board, which administers the nationally recognized SAT and AP tests. Caperton announced his intention to step down as president of the College... |
1963 | Business administration | Former Governor of West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east... |
| Elias Carr Elias Carr Elias Carr was the 48th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1893 to 1897. A building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill is named after him.... |
1859 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Henry Toole Clark Henry Toole Clark Henry Toole Clark was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1861 to 1862 during the American Civil War.... |
1826 / Grad. | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Steve Cowper Steve Cowper Steve Cowper is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth Governor of Alaska of Alaska from 1986 to 1990. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later served in the Alaska House of Representatives before being elected governor.Cowper served as Governor at... |
1960 / Grad. | History / Law | Former Governor of Alaska |
| Locke Craig | 1880 | Former governor of North Carolina | |
| Mike Easley Mike Easley Michael Francis "Mike" Easley is an American politician who served as the 72nd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, from 2001 to 2009. He is member of the North Carolina Democratic Party and became the first North Carolina governor to admit to a felony in a deal that halted a lengthy... |
1972 | Political Science | Former Governor of North Carolina Governor of North Carolina The Governor of North Carolina is the chief executive of the State of North Carolina, one of the U.S. states. The current governor is Bev Perdue, North Carolina's first female governor.-Powers:... |
| John Willis Ellis John Willis Ellis John Willis Ellis was the 35th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1859 to 1861.Ellis attended the University of North Carolina, studied law under Richmond Mumford Pearson, practiced law, and was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly from Rowan County. He served as a state... |
1841 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| John C. B. Ehringhaus | 1902 | Former governor of North Carolina | |
| Oliver Max Gardner Oliver Max Gardner Oliver Max Gardner was the 57th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933.-Early years and education:... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852.-Education:Graham was born near... |
1824 / Grad. | 19th century US Senator and Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, Vice-Presidential Candidate, and CSA Senator. | |
| Clyde R. Hoey Clyde R. Hoey Clyde Roark Hoey was a Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was North Carolina's governor from 1937 to 1941. He entered the U.S... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| Luther H. Hodges Luther H. Hodges Luther Hartwell Hodges, Sr. was an American politician, who served as the 64th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961 and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1961 to 1965.-Biography:... |
1919 | Former governor of North Carolina | |
| James Holshouser James Holshouser James Eubert Holshouser, Jr. was the 68th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977. He was born in Boone, North Carolina.... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| Thomas Michael Holt Thomas Michael Holt Col. Thomas Michael Holt was a prominent North Carolina industrialist who served as the 47th Governor of North Carolina from 1891 to 1893... |
Did not graduate | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Jim Hunt Jim Hunt James Baxter Hunt Jr. is an American politician who was the 69th and 71st Governor of the state of North Carolina . He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.-Early life:... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| William Walton Kitchin William Walton Kitchin William Walton Kitchin was the 52nd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1909 to 1913.-Early Life and Family:... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| Charles Manly Charles Manly Charles Manly was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851, and the last member of his party to hold the office. After one two-year term, Manly was defeated in the 1850 election by David S. Reid, whom Manly had defeated in 1848.He was the brother of Matthias Evans... |
1814 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Angus Wilton McLean Angus Wilton McLean Angus Wilton McLean was a lawyer and banker who was the 56th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1925 to 1929... |
1892 / Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina |
| William Miller William Miller (North Carolina) William Miller was the 18th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1814 to 1817.Born in Warren County, North Carolina, William Miller was orphaned at the age of 22 and inherited a substantial plantation. He briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1802, but... |
Did not graduate | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Dan K. Moore Dan K. Moore Daniel Killian Moore was the 66th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1965 to 1969. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Moore earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity... |
1927 / Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina, former justice of N.C. Supreme Court |
| John Motley Morehead John Motley Morehead John Motley Morehead was the 29th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1841 to 1845. He is known as "the Father of Modern North Carolina."... |
1817 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| William Dunn Moseley William Dunn Moseley William Dunn Moseley was an American politician. A Democrat and North Carolina native, Moseley became the first Governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1845 until 1849 and leading the establishment of the state government.-Early life and education:He was born at Moseley Hall in Lenoir... |
1st Governor of the State of Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
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| John Owen | Did not graduate | Former Governor of North Carolina | |
| Daniel Lindsay Russell Daniel Lindsay Russell Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr. was the 49th Governor of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901, an attorney and judge, and a politician. Although he fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, he and his father were both Unionists... |
Did not graduate | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Terry Sanford Terry Sanford James Terry Sanford was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the 65th Governor of North Carolina , a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator... |
1939 / Grad. | Law | Former Senator from and Governor of North Carolina and President of Duke University |
| Alfred Moore Scales Alfred Moore Scales Alfred Moore Scales was a North Carolina state legislature, Confederate general in the American Civil War and the 45th Governor of the US state of North Carolina from 1885 to 1889, and Congressman.-Early life:... |
Did not graduate | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr | 1815 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina, governor of Florida, and U.S. representative from North Carolina | |
| David Lowry Swain David Lowry Swain David Lowry Swain was the 26th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835.-Biography:Swain was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina; his father, George Swain, was a farmer and a member of the North Carolina General Assembly... |
Did not graduate | 19th Century governor of North Carolina | |
| John Swainson John Swainson John Burley Swainson was a politician from the US state of Michigan, as well as the 42nd Governor of Michigan.... |
Grad. | Law | Former governor of Michigan |
| William B. Umstead William B. Umstead William Bradley Umstead was an American Senator and the 63rd Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.-Biography:Umstead was born in the northern Durham County town of Bahama in 1895... |
1916 | Former Governor of North Carolina, U.S. representative from North Carolina | |
| Zebulon Baird Vance Zebulon Baird Vance Zebulon Baird Vance was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator... |
Former Governor of North Carolina | ||
| Warren Winslow Warren Winslow Warren Winslow was the 33rd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1854 to 1855. Winslow graduated from the University of North Carolina.... |
19th Century governor of North Carolina and U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
U.S. Senators
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| Thomas Hart Benton Thomas Hart Benton (senator) Thomas Hart Benton , nicknamed "Old Bullion", was a U.S. Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States. He served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of that body to serve five terms... |
– | Did not graduate | Former Senator United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each... from Missouri Missouri Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It... |
| John Branch John Branch John Branch, Jr. served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, the 19th Governor of the state of North Carolina, and was the sixth and last territorial governor of Florida.... |
1801 | Former Governor of and U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy | |
| Thomas Lanier Clingman Thomas Lanier Clingman Thomas Lanier Clingman , known as the "Prince of Politicians," was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1858 and 1861... |
1832 | Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| John Eaton | Grad. | Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War | |
| John Edwards John Edwards Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in... |
Grad. | Law | Former Senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president, and 2004 and 2008 Democratic primary candidate for presidential nomination |
| Samuel James Ervin Jr. | 1917 | Former Senator from North Carolina, member of The Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices | |
| William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852.-Education:Graham was born near... |
1824 / Grad. | 19th century US Senator and Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, Vice-Presidential Candidate, and CSA Senator. | |
| William Henry Haywood, Jr. William Henry Haywood, Jr. William Henry Haywood, Jr. was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1843 and 1846.... |
1819 / Grad. | Former Senator from North Carolina | |
| Willie Person Mangum Willie Person Mangum Willie Person Mangum was a U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1831 and 1836 and between 1840 and 1853. He was one of the founders and leading members of the Whig party, and was a candidate for President on a Whig ticket in 1836.Mangum was born in Durham County, North Carolina... |
1815 / Grad. | Former Senator from North Carolina | |
| Alfred O. P. Nicholson Alfred O. P. Nicholson Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson , a Tennessee Democratic politician and lawyer, was twice a United States Senator from that state.-Biography:... |
1827 | Former Senator from Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area... |
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| John Pool John Pool John Pool was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1873. He was also the uncle of Congressman Walter Freshwater Pool.... |
1847 | Former Senator from North Carolina | |
| Terry Sanford Terry Sanford James Terry Sanford was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the 65th Governor of North Carolina , a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator... |
1939 / Grad. | Law | Former Senator from and Governor of North Carolina and President of Duke University |
| William R. Webb William R. Webb - External links :... |
1867 / Grad. | Former Senator from Tennessee | |
| Paul Wellstone Paul Wellstone Paul David Wellstone was a two-term U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected to the Senate in 1990, he was a professor of political science at Carleton College... |
1965 / Grad. | Political Science | Former Senator from Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state... |
U.S. Representatives
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| Charles Laban Abernethy Charles Laban Abernethy Charles Laban Abernethy was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1922 and 1935.Born in Rutherford College, North Carolina, Abernethy attended local public schools and Rutherford College before moving to Beaufort, North Carolina in 1893. There, he founded the Beaufort Herald... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Hugh Quincy Alexander Hugh Quincy Alexander Hugh Quincy Alexander was a Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina between 1953 and 1963.Born on a farm near Glendon, North Carolina in Moore County in 1911, Alexander attended local public schools and then Duke University, graduating in 1932... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Sydenham Benoni Alexander Sydenham Benoni Alexander Sydenham Benoni Alexander was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1891 and 1895.Alexander, born near Charlotte, North Carolina in 1840, attended preparatory schools in Rocky River and Wadesboro and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1860.At the... |
1860 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Ike Franklin Andrews Ike Franklin Andrews Ike Franklin Andrews was an American politician. He served as a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District between 1973 and 1985, when he was defeated for reelection by Republican Bill Cobey.-Biography:Born in Bonlee, North Carolina, Andrews attended local... |
1950 / Grad. | Business / Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Thomas Samuel Ashe Thomas Samuel Ashe Thomas Samuel Ashe was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1873 and 1877. He had previously served in the Confederate Congress.-Early years:... |
1832 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Cass Ballenger Cass Ballenger Thomas Cass Ballenger is an American politician. A Republican, he represented North Carolina's 10th Congressional district, centered in North Carolina's foothills, in the United States House of Representatives from 1986 to 2005.... |
1948 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Daniel Moreau Barringer Daniel Moreau Barringer Daniel Moreau Barringer was a Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1843 and 1849.Born near Concord, North Carolina, in 1806, Barringer attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Graduating in 1826, he went on to study law in Hillsborough and was admitted to the bar,... |
1826 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| James Jefferson Britt James Jefferson Britt James Jefferson Britt was a United States Representative in Congress from North Carolina.-Biography:... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Jim Broyhill Jim Broyhill James Thomas "Jim" Broyhill is a Republican former U.S. Representative and Senator from the state of North Carolina. He represented much of the Foothills region of the state in the House from 1963 to 1986, and served in the Senate for four months in 1986.He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, the... |
1950 | Business Administration | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Aaron V. Brown Aaron V. Brown Aaron Venable Brown was a Governor of Tennessee and Postmaster General in the Buchanan administration. He was also the law partner of James K. Polk.-Biography:... |
1814 | Former U.S. Representative from and Governor of Tennessee, Postmaster General United States Postmaster General The United States Postmaster General is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence... |
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| Alfred L. Bulwinkle Alfred L. Bulwinkle Alfred Lee Bulwinkle was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Bulwinkle moved with his parents to Dallas, North Carolina, in 1891.He attended the common schools.... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Frank Ertel Carlyle Frank Ertel Carlyle Frank Ertel Carlyle was a United States Representative of the Democratic Party from the state of North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After serving in the navy in World War I he practiced law in Lumberton, North Carolina... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| Henry Selby Clark Henry Selby Clark Henry Selby Clark was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Leechville, North Carolina, September 9, 1809; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced... |
1828 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| J. Bayard Clark J. Bayard Clark Jerome Bayard Clark was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.-Early life:Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied law. Clark was admitted to the bar in 1906 and... |
Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Thomas Lanier Clingman Thomas Lanier Clingman Thomas Lanier Clingman , known as the "Prince of Politicians," was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1858 and 1861... |
1832 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Howard Coble Howard Coble John Howard Coble is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1985. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education, and pre-political career:Coble was born in Greensboro, North Carolina... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Jim Cooper Jim Cooper James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooper is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition. He previously represented from 1983 to 1995.... |
1975 | History & Economics | U.S. Representative from Tennessee |
| Francis Burton Craige Francis Burton Craige Francis Burton Craige was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury, North Carolina, March 13, 1811; attended a private school in Salisbury, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829; editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian... |
1829 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| William C. Cramer William C. Cramer William Cato Cramer was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Cramer was born in Denver, Colorado. He was three years old when his parents moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. He attended the public schools and St... |
1946 | U.S. Representative from Florida | |
| William T. Crawford William T. Crawford William Thomas Crawford was a Representative from North Carolina.He attended the public schools and Waynesville Academy.... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| John Reeves Jones Daniel John Reeves Jones Daniel John Reeves Jones Daniel was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.Daniel was born near Halifax, North Carolina and was instructed privately at home. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1821. After studying law, he was admitted to the North Carolina... |
1821 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Susan Davis | Grad. | Social work | U.S. Representative from California |
| James C. Dobbin James C. Dobbin James Cochran Dobbin was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857.... |
1832 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina and Secretary of the Navy | |
| Richard Spaight Donnell Richard Spaight Donnell Richard Spaight Donnell was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, North Carolina; was the grandson of Richard Dobbs Spaight; attended New Bern Academy and Yale College; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1839; studied law; was... |
1839 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Joseph Wilson Ervin Joseph Wilson Ervin Joseph Wilson Ervin was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina.- Family background, education and early professional life :... |
1921 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Samuel James Ervin Jr. | 1917 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina and Senator from North Carolina | |
| Alonzo Dillard Folger Alonzo Dillard Folger Alonzo Dillard Folger was a Democratic U.S Congressman from North Carolina between 1939 and 1941.Born in Dobson, North Carolina, Folger attended public schools in Surry County and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
1912 / Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| John Hamlin Folger John Hamlin Folger John Hamlin Folger was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1941 and 1949.Born in Rockford, North Carolina, Folger attended public schools in Surry County... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Daniel Munroe Forney Daniel Munroe Forney Daniel Munroe Forney was a United States Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Lincolnton, North Carolina, in May 1784, the son of Peter Forney.... |
1808 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Lawrence H. Fountain Lawrence H. Fountain Lawrence H. Fountain , generally known as L.H. Fountain, was a Democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina from 1953 to 1983.-Early life:... |
1934 / Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Virginia Foxx Virginia Foxx Virginia Foxx is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Republican Party. The district takes in much of the northwestern portion of the state and a portion of Winston-Salem.... |
1968 / Grad. | English / Education | U.S. Representative from North Carolina elected in 2004 |
| Hannibal Lafayette Godwin Hannibal Lafayette Godwin Hannibal Lafayette Godwin was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1907 and 1921.Born near Dunn in Harnett County, North Carolina, Godwin attended common schools near his home and then Trinity College in Durham... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| James Graham | 1814 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| V. Lamar Gudger V. Lamar Gudger Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr. represented North Carolina's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1977-1981. Gudger, who was born in Asheville, had several degrees from the University of North Carolina, served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942–1945,... |
1940 / Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| William C. Hammer William C. Hammer William Cicero Hammer was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born near Asheboro, North Carolina, Hammer attended private and common schools.... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Micajah Thomas Hawkins Micajah Thomas Hawkins Micajah Thomas Hawkins was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1803 to 1809.Born near Warrenton, North Carolina in 1790, Hawkins attended Warrenton Academy and then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A practicing farmer, Hawkins was first elected to the North Carolina House... |
1807 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| John S. Henderson John S. Henderson John Steele Henderson was a Representative for North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:... |
1865 | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| John Hill John Hill (North Carolina politician) John Hill was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born near Germanton, North Carolina, Hill completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1816.He was a planter.... |
1816 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Charles R. Jonas Charles R. Jonas Charles Raper Jonas was a U.S. representative from North Carolina for ten terms . At the time of his election in 1952, he became the first Republican to represent his state in either house of the U.S. Congress since his own father, Charles A. Jonas, and George M... |
1925 / Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Ben Jones Ben Jones (US) Ben Lewis Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright and essayist, probably best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones was elected to be a member of the United States House of Representatives in 1988 and re-elected in 1990. He served for four years, until Jan... |
Did not graduate | Former U.S. Representative from Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... and actor |
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| Hamilton C. Jones Hamilton C. Jones Hamilton Chamberlain Jones was a United States Representative from North Carolina. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and attended the schools of Charlotte, Central High School in Washington, D.C., and Horners Military School in Oxford, North Carolina... |
1906 | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| William Carter Love William Carter Love William Carter Love was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Norfolk, Virginia, in 1784; moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina; was tutored at home; attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1802–1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced... |
1806 | U.S. Representative United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution... from North Carolina |
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| Allard Lowenstein | 1949 | Former U.S. Representative from New York | |
| Willie Person Mangum Willie Person Mangum Willie Person Mangum was a U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1831 and 1836 and between 1840 and 1853. He was one of the founders and leading members of the Whig party, and was a candidate for President on a Whig ticket in 1836.Mangum was born in Durham County, North Carolina... |
1815 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| John Y. Mason John Y. Mason John Young Mason was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:... |
1816 | Former U.S. Representative from Virginia, United States Attorney General United States Attorney General The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government... and Secretary of the Navy United States Secretary of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy of the United States of America is the head of the Department of the Navy, a component organization of the Department of Defense... |
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| Mike McIntyre Mike McIntyre Douglas Carmichael "Mike" McIntyre II is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Democratic Party.... |
1978 / Grad. | Political science / Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Alex McMillan Alex McMillan John Alexander 'Alex' McMillan III is a North Carolina Republican politician who served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing North Carolina's 9th congressional district from 1985 to 1995.... |
1954 | History | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Anderson Mitchell Anderson Mitchell Anderson Mitchell was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born on a farm near Milton, North Carolina, June 13, 1800; attended Bingham’s School, Orange County, North Carolina, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1821; studied law; was admitted... |
1821 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Brad Miller Brad Miller (congressman) Ralph Bradley "Brad" Miller is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. District 13 includes all of Caswell and Person counties, and parts of Alamance, Granville, Guilford, Rockingham and Wake counties... |
1975 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| James Turner Morehead James Turner Morehead (North Carolina) James Turner Morehead was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, January 11, 1799; attended the common schools; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced... |
1819 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| William H. Murfree William H. Murfree William Hardy Murfree was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina born in Hertford County, North Carolina on October 2, 1781.... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| David Outlaw David Outlaw David Outlaw was a Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1847 and 1853.Born near Windsor, North Carolina in 1806, Outlaw attended private schools and academies in Bertie County. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1824, studied law, and was admitted to... |
1824 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Ebenezer Pettigrew Ebenezer Pettigrew Ebenezer Pettigew was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Plymouth, North Carolina, March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He engaged in planting, and later became a member of the State... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| David Price David Price (American politician) David Eugene Price is a professor and the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997 and previously from 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina (represents the district where UNC is located) | ||
| George M. Pritchard George M. Pritchard George Moore Pritchard was a lawyer, Republican politician, and one-term U.S. representative from North Carolina. He was the son of Senator Jeter C. Pritchard.... |
1907 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Abraham Rencher Abraham Rencher Abraham Rencher was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Raleigh, North Carolina, August 12, 1798; tutored at home and attended the common schools and Pittsboro Academy; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1822; studied law; was admitted to... |
1822 / Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Sion Hart Rogers Sion Hart Rogers Sion Hart Rogers was a Congressman from and Attorney General of the U.S. state of North Carolina.-Biography:... |
1846 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Charlie Rose Charlie Rose (congressman) Charles Grandison "Charlie" Rose III is a former Democratic United States Congressman from North Carolina who served from 1973 to 1997.... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Thomas Hart Ruffin Thomas Hart Ruffin Thomas Hart Ruffin was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Louisburg, North Carolina, September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| Romulus Mitchell Saunders Romulus Mitchell Saunders Romulus Mitchell Saunders was an American politician from North Carolina.Saunders was born near Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. He was the son of William Saunders and Hannah Mitchell Saunders, attended Hyco and Caswell Academies and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| Samuel Tredwell Sawyer Samuel Tredwell Sawyer Samuel Tredwell Sawyer was a Congressional Representative from the U.S. state of North Carolina.Sawyer was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1800. He attended Edenton Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sawyer studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| Charles Biddle Shepard Charles Biddle Shepard Charles Biddle Shepard was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, North Carolina, December 5, 1808; attended private schools of his native city and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| William Crawford Sherrod William Crawford Sherrod William Crawford Sherrod was an American politician and Confederate officer from Alabama. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Afterward, he was a planter and served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Alabama in 1860... |
U.S. Representative from Alabama | ||
| Francis Edwin Shober Francis Edwin Shober Francis Edwin Shober was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, father of Francis Emanuel Shober.Born in Salem , North Carolina, Shober attended the common schools and the Moravian School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.He was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1851.He... |
1851 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Francis Edwin Shober Francis Edwin Shober Francis Edwin Shober was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, father of Francis Emanuel Shober.Born in Salem , North Carolina, Shober attended the common schools and the Moravian School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.He was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1851.He... |
1862 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr | 1815 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina, governor of Florida, and U.S. representative from North Carolina | |
| Charles Manly Stedman Charles Manly Stedman Charles Manly Stedman was a politician and lawyer from North Carolina.-Biography:Born in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Stedman moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina with his parents in 1853 where he attended Pittsboro and Donaldson Academies and graduated from the University of North Carolina at... |
1861 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Walter Leak Steele Walter Leak Steele Walter Leak Steele was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1877 and 1881.Born near Rockingham in Richmond County, North Carolina, Steele attended common schools near his home and then Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, Wake Forest College, and finally the University of North... |
1844 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Jacob Thompson Jacob Thompson Jacob Thompson was a lawyer and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1857 to 1861.-Biography:... |
1831 | U.S. Representative from Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior | |
| William B. Umstead William B. Umstead William Bradley Umstead was an American Senator and the 63rd Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.-Biography:Umstead was born in the northern Durham County town of Bahama in 1895... |
1916 | Former Governor of North Carolina, U.S. representative from North Carolina | |
| Tim Valentine Tim Valentine Itimous Thaddeus Valentine, Jr. , generally known as Tim Valentine, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina from 1983 to 1995.... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. representative from North Carolina |
| Alfred Moore Waddell Alfred Moore Waddell Alfred Moore Waddell was a Democratic U. S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and later mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina.-Family and education:... |
U.S. representative from North Carolina | ||
| Hallett Sydney Ward Hallett Sydney Ward Hallett Sydney Ward was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1921 and 1925.Born near Gatesville, North Carolina, Ward attended public schools in Gates County and then studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. representative from North Carolina |
| Lindsay Carter Warren Lindsay Carter Warren Lindsay Carter Warren was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1925 and 1940.-Early life and education:... |
1906 / Grad. | Law | U.S. representative from North Carolina |
| Mel Watt Mel Watt Melvin Luther Watt is the United States House of Representatives for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:... |
1967 | Business Administration | U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Zebulon Weaver Zebulon Weaver Zebulon Weaver was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and between 1931 and 1947.-Early years and education:... |
Grad. | Law | U.S. representative from North Carolina |
| Edwin Y. Webb | Grad. | Law | U.S. representative from North Carolina |
| Lewis Williams Lewis Williams For the Welsh rugby union player see Lewis Williams Lewis Williams was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1815 and 1842.... |
1808 / Grad. | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Warren Winslow Warren Winslow Warren Winslow was the 33rd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1854 to 1855. Winslow graduated from the University of North Carolina.... |
1827 | 19th Century governor of North Carolina and U.S. Representative from North Carolina | |
| Bartlett Yancey Bartlett Yancey Bartlett Yancey, Jr. was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, USA, between 1813 and 1817.... |
U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
U.S. cabinet members and other executive officers
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
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| Claude Allen Claude Allen Claude Alexander Allen was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy in George W. Bush's White House and a withdrawn Bush judicial nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The African-American Republican was appointed to his White House... |
1982 | Political science | Director of the Domestic Policy Council for the George W. Bush administration |
| Melody Barnes Melody Barnes Melody C. Barnes was chosen by President Barack Obama to serve as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council for his administration. Obama announced her appointment on November 24, 2008. She was previously Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress and led the CAP's... |
Director of the Domestic Policy Council for the Obama administration | ||
| John Branch John Branch John Branch, Jr. served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, the 19th Governor of the state of North Carolina, and was the sixth and last territorial governor of Florida.... |
1801 | Former Governor of and U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy | |
| Jonathan W. Daniels Jonathan W. Daniels Jonathan Worth Daniels was an American author, editor, and White House Press Secretary. Daniels' term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest since the inception of the position in 1937. He held the position in 1945 under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman... |
1921 / Grad. | Former White House Press Secretary | |
| James C. Dobbin James C. Dobbin James Cochran Dobbin was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857.... |
1832 | U.S. Representative from North Carolina and Secretary of the Navy | |
| John Eaton | Grad. | Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War | |
| William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham William Alexander Graham was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852.-Education:Graham was born near... |
1824 / Grad. | 19th century US Senator and Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, Vice-Presidential Candidate, and CSA Senator. | |
| C. Boyden Gray C. Boyden Gray Clayland Boyden Gray is a former American diplomat and public servant. He is a member of the board of directors at the Atlantic Council and at The European Institute.... |
Grad. | Law | Former White House Counsel; Current Ambassador to the EU |
| Gordon Gray | 1930 | Secretary of the Army United States Secretary of the Army The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and... , National Security Advisor and president of the University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century... |
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| Kevin Martin Kevin Martin (FCC) Kevin Jeffrey Martin was the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30, 2001, and was confirmed on May 25, 2001. On March 16, 2005, President Bush designated him as FCC chairman, to replace Michael K. Powell... |
1989 | Political science | Former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the... |
| John Y. Mason John Y. Mason John Young Mason was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:... |
1816 | Former United States Attorney General United States Attorney General The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government... and Secretary of the Navy United States Secretary of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy of the United States of America is the head of the Department of the Navy, a component organization of the Department of Defense... |
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| Colin R. McMillan Colin R. McMillan Colin Riley McMillan was a former Assistant United States Secretary of Defense under President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War... |
1957 | Geology | Former assistant Secretary of the Navy United States Secretary of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy of the United States of America is the head of the Department of the Navy, a component organization of the Department of Defense... and nominee for Secretary of Defense United States Secretary of Defense The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries... |
| Kenneth Claiborne Royall Kenneth Claiborne Royall Kenneth Claiborne Royall was a United States Army general and the last person to hold the office of Secretary of War... |
1914 | Former Secretary of War United States Secretary of War The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War," was appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation... and Secretary of the Army United States Secretary of the Army The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and... |
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| Jacob Thompson Jacob Thompson Jacob Thompson was a lawyer and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1857 to 1861.-Biography:... |
1831 | U.S. Representative from Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior | |
Federal judges
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
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| Lance M. Africk Lance M. Africk Lance Michael Africk is a United States federal judge.Africk was born in New York, New York. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1975. From 1975 to 1976, he was a law clerk to James... |
1973 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana |
| James A. Beaty, Jr. James A. Beaty, Jr. James A. Beaty, Jr. is a United States federal judge serving on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and a former nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
| J. Spencer Bell J. Spencer Bell Jesse Spencer Bell was a United States federal judge.Bell was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a B.A. from Duke University in 1927 and an LL.B. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1930. He also studied at Harvard Law School... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| Frank William Bullock, Jr. | 1961 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
| Robert Hardy Cleland Robert Hardy Cleland Robert Hardy Cleland is a United States District Judge.Born in St. Clair, Michigan, Cleland received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1972. He was in private practice in Port Huron, Michigan from 1972 to 1975... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
| Eric L. Clay Eric L. Clay Eric Lee Clay is a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.- Early life, education and legal training :... |
1969 | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
| Max O. Cogburn, Jr. Max O. Cogburn, Jr. Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr. was formerly a North Carolina lawyer in private practice and is currently a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The Senate confirmed him 96–0 on March 10, 2011... |
1973 | Political Science | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| Robert P. Dick Robert P. Dick Robert Paine Dick was an attorney, North Carolina Supreme Court justice , and United States District Court judge . Originally a Democrat, Dick served as United States attorney for the District of North Carolina from 1853 to 1861... |
1843 / Grad. | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | |
| Franklin Taylor Dupree Jr. Franklin Taylor Dupree Jr. Franklin Taylor Dupree Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Angier, North Carolina, Dupree received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1933 and an LL.B. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1936. He was in private practice in Angier and Raleigh, North... |
1933 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
| James Carroll Fox James Carroll Fox James Carroll Fox is a United States federal judge.Born in Atchison, Kansas, Fox received a B.S. from the University of North Carolina in 1950, and was in the United States Army from 1951 to 1959. He then received a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1957, serving as a law... |
1950 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
| Donnell Gilliam Donnell Gilliam Donnell Gilliam was a United States federal judge.Born in Tarboro, North Carolina, Gilliam received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1909 and an LL.B. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1910. He was in private practice in Tarboro, North Carolina from 1923 to 1945... |
1909 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
| Peter W. Hall Peter W. Hall Peter Welles Hall is an American jurist. He is federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.- Biography :... |
1971 / Grad. | English / Education | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| David Ezekiel Henderson David Ezekiel Henderson David Ezekiel Henderson was a United States federal judge.Born in Deppe, North Carolina, Henderson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and read law in 1905. He was in private practice in New Bern, North Carolina from 1905 to 1918, and then in Charlotte, North Carolina from... |
1904 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | |
| Karen L. Henderson Karen L. Henderson Karen LeCraft Henderson is a United States federal judge who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in July 1990, by President George H. W. Bush.-Early life, education, and career:... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
| Truman McGill Hobbs Truman McGill Hobbs Truman McGill Hobbs is a United States federal judge.Born in Selma, Alabama, Hobbs received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1942. was in the United States Navy Lieutenant during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1948... |
1942 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama | |
| Algenon L. Marbley Algenon L. Marbley Algenon L. Marbley is a United States federal judge.Born in Morehead City, North Carolina, Marbley received a B.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1976 and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1979. He was in private practice of law in Chicago, Illinois from... |
1976 | Political science | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
| John Young Mason | 1816 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | |
| Harold Brent McKnight Harold Brent McKnight Harold Brent McKnight was a United States federal judge.Born in Mooresville, North Carolina, McKnight received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1974; an M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1976; and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1980... |
1974 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| James Bryan McMillan James Bryan McMillan James Bryan McMillan was a United States federal judge.Born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, McMillan received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1937 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1940. He was a Staff attorney of State Attorney General's Office, North Carolina... |
1937 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | |
| James Ward Morris James Ward Morris James Ward Morris was a United States federal judge.Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, Morris received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1912. He attended the University of North Carolina School of Law, but read law to enter the bar in 1913. He was in private practice in Tampa,... |
1912 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia | |
| William Lindsay Osteen, Jr. | 1983 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
| William Lindsay Osteen, Sr. William Lindsay Osteen, Sr. William Lindsay Osteen was a United States federal judge.Osteen was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received an A.B. from Guilford College in 1953. He received an LL.B. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1956. He was in the United States Army Reserve from 1948 to 1951... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina |
| John J. Parker John J. Parker John Johnston Parker was a U.S. judge who failed confirmation to the Supreme Court by one vote. He was also the U.S. alternate judge at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals and later served on the United Nations' International Law Commission.John J. Parker was born in Monroe, North Carolina,... |
1907 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| James Dickson Phillips, Jr. James Dickson Phillips, Jr. James Dickson Phillips, Jr. is a senior federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.-Early life and education:... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| S. Jay Plager S. Jay Plager Sheldon Jay Plager is a Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.He received his Bachelors degree from the University of North Carolina in 1952, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida College of Law in 1958, followed by an LL.M. from Columbia Law School... |
1952 | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | |
| Martin Karl Reidinger Martin Karl Reidinger Martin Karl Reidinger is a United States federal judge.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Reidinger received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1981 and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1984. He was in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina from 1984 to 2007.On... |
1981 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| David B. Sentelle David B. Sentelle Judge David Bryan Sentelle is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.- Early life and education :... |
1965 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
| Thomas Settle Thomas Settle (judge) Thomas Settle was an American judge and politician in North Carolina.Born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, Settle received a A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1850 and read law to enter the bar in 1854. He was a private secretary to North Carolina Governor David S... |
1850 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida | |
| William Bostwick Sheppard William Bostwick Sheppard William Bostwick Sheppard was a United States federal judge.Born in Bristol, Florida, Sheppard attended the University of North Carolina and read law to enter the bar in 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Florida State Senate in 1888. He was a collector of customs at Apalachicola, Florida... |
1881 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida | |
| Lacy Thornburg Lacy Thornburg Lacy Herman Thornburg an American lawyer and judge, was North Carolina attorney general from 1985 to 1993.After serving in the United States Army, Thornburg attended Mars Hill College when it was a junior college. He then earned a law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... |
1952 / Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| Richard Lesley Voorhees Richard Lesley Voorhees Richard Lesley Voorhees is a United States federal judge.Born in Syracuse, New York, Voorhees was in the United States Army ROTC Cadet from 1959 to 1963. He received a B.A. from Davidson College in 1963 and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1968. He was in the United... |
Grad. | Law | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| David Dortch Warriner David Dortch Warriner David Dortch Warriner was a United States federal judge.Born in Brunswick County, Virginia, Warriner received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1951 and an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1957. He was in the United States Navy Lieutenant from 1951 to 1954... |
1951 | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | |
| Frank DeArmon Whitney Frank DeArmon Whitney For the 19th-century baseball player, see Frank Whitney .Frank DeArmon Whitney is a United States federal judge.-Biography:... |
Grad. | Law and business | Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
| James A. Wynn, Jr. James A. Wynn, Jr. James Andrew Wynn, Jr. is an American jurist, currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and formerly on both the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court.... |
1975 | Journalism | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
Law
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| Thomas Samuel Ashe Thomas Samuel Ashe Thomas Samuel Ashe was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1873 and 1877. He had previously served in the Confederate Congress.-Early years:... |
1832 | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court North Carolina Supreme Court The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices... , U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
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| M.V. Barnhill M.V. Barnhill Maurice Victor Barnhill was an associate justice and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Barnhill was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on December 5, 1887 and attended the University of North Carolina Law School... |
Grad. | law | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| William Horn Battle William Horn Battle William Horn Battle was a North Carolina jurist and law professor who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court. He was also the father of Kemp P. Battle.... |
Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | ||
| William H. Bobbitt William H. Bobbitt William Haywood Bobbitt , was an American jurist and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Bobbitt was born in 1900 in Raleigh, North Carolina and earned his law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Bobbitt was elected a Superior Court judge and served with... |
Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | ||
| Peter Carlisle Peter Carlisle Peter Benson Carlisle is the current Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii. He previously was the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu, from 1996 to 2010.-Life:... |
1974 | Psychology | Mayor of Honolulu Mayor of Honolulu The Mayor of Honolulu is the chief executive officer of the City and County of Honolulu and considered the third most powerful official in the U.S. state of Hawaii, behind the Governor of Hawaii and the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii... ; former Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu The Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu is one of only two countywide elected positions in the City & County of Honolulu in the State of Hawai'i. He or she is responsible for the prosecution of people for offenses to the laws and regulations established by the municipal government... |
| J. Phil Carlton J. Phil Carlton J. Phil Carlton is an attorney who currently serves as chief executive officer of State Capital Group, a network of law firms. According to the group's website, "he and 17 former state governors formed the organization in 1989 when he was a partner at North Carolina member firm Poyner & Spruill LLP... |
Grad. | Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Walter Clark Walter Clark (jurist) Walter McKenzie Clark was a North Carolina politician and jurist who served as an associate justice and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.-Biography:... |
1864 | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Roy Cooper Roy A. Cooper Roy Asberry Cooper, III is the current North Carolina Attorney General. He is a member of the North Carolina Democratic Party.-Personal life and education:... |
1979 / Grad. | Political Science / Law | Current North Carolina Attorney General North Carolina attorney general The Attorney General of North Carolina is the head of the state's Department of Justice and provides legal representation and advice to all state agencies. He or she does not have the authority to prosecute specific crimes unless requested to do so by a local district attorney... |
| Joseph J. Davis Joseph J. Davis Joseph Jonathan Davis was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from North Carolina.-Biography:... |
Grad. | Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
| Walter E. Dellinger III Walter E. Dellinger III Walter Estes Dellinger III is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's . He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the... |
1963 | Political Science | Former United States Solicitor General United States Solicitor General The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June... |
| William A. Devin William A. Devin William Augustus Devin was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.... |
Grad. | Law | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Robert P. Dick Robert P. Dick Robert Paine Dick was an attorney, North Carolina Supreme Court justice , and United States District Court judge . Originally a Democrat, Dick served as United States attorney for the District of North Carolina from 1853 to 1861... |
1843 | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina | |
| Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Born in Danville, Virginia, Edmunds moved to Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 8. He attended Woodberry Forest School and Williams College before graduating with honors from... |
Grad. | Law | Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| James G. Exum James G. Exum James G. 'Jim' Exum, Jr. is an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.After earning his law degree at the New York University School of Law, Exum clerked for North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Emery B. Denny... |
1957 | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Franklin Freeman Franklin Freeman Franklin Edward Freeman, Jr. is a lawyer and public official in North Carolina, who retired from government service in 2009 as Senior Assistant for Governmental Affairs to Governor Mike Easley.... |
Grad. | Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Henry E. Frye | Grad. | Law | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, first African American chief justice |
| Barbara Jackson Barbara Jackson Barbara Jackson is an American attorney and jurist who was elected in 2010 to an eight-year term on the North Carolina Supreme Court.... |
1984 / Grad. | Interdisciplinary studies / Law | Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Robin E. Hudson Robin E. Hudson Robin E. Hudson is an American jurist, currently serving as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Born in DeKalb County, Georgia, after studying philosophy and psychology at Yale University, Hudson earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976... |
Grad. | Law | Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| J. Frank Huskins J. Frank Huskins J. Frank Huskins was an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1968 through 1982.Huskins was born in the Toledo community near Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina to Joseph Irwin Huskins and Mary Etta Peterson Huskins. Huskins attended Mars Hill Junior College from 1927... |
1930 / Grad. | Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Matthias Evans Manly Matthias Evans Manly Matthias Evans Manly was a jurist who served as a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1860 to 1865. He was the brother of North Carolina Governor Charles Manly.... |
1824 | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| John Y. Mason John Y. Mason John Young Mason was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:... |
1816 | Former United States Attorney General United States Attorney General The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government... and Secretary of the Navy United States Secretary of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy of the United States of America is the head of the Department of the Navy, a component organization of the Department of Defense... |
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| Mark Martin Mark Martin (judge) Mark D. Martin is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. With over fifteen years of service in the North Carolina judiciary, Martin is the only active member of the state judiciary with experience on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the North Carolina Court of... |
Grad. | Law | Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Burley Mitchell Burley Mitchell Burley Mitchell, Jr. is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. At age 15, Mitchell dropped out of high school to join the United States Marine Corps, only to be kicked out when his age was discovered... |
Grad. | Law | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Dan K. Moore Dan K. Moore Daniel Killian Moore was the 66th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1965 to 1969. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Moore earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity... |
1927 / Grad. | Law | Former governor of North Carolina, former justice of N.C. Supreme Court |
| Paul Martin Newby Paul Martin Newby Paul Martin Newby is an American judge, elected in 2004 to a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court to an eight-year term that expires in 2012.Newby was born in Asheboro, North Carolina... |
Grad. | Law | Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Mike Nifong | District attorney District attorney In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of... for Durham County, North Carolina Durham County, North Carolina -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 223,314 people, 89,015 households, and 54,032 families residing in the county. The population density was 769 people per square mile . There were 95,452 housing units at an average density of 329 per square mile... during the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case |
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| Robert F. Orr Robert F. Orr Robert F. Orr is an American lawyer, formerly an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Orr was born in Norfolk, Virginia and spent his childhood in Hendersonville, North Carolina. After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Orr served... |
1968 / Grad. | Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Susan Owens Susan Owens Susan Owens is an Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court. On November 7, 2000, she was elected the seventh woman to serve on the court. She joined the court after serving nineteen years as District Court Judge in Western Clallam County, where she was the county's senior elected official... |
Grad. | Law | Current justice of the Washington Supreme Court Washington Supreme Court The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Justices. of the Court are elected to six-year terms... |
| Sarah Parker Sarah Parker Sarah Parker is an American judge, currently the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.-Education and career:... |
Grad. | Law | Current chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| William B. Rodman William B. Rodman William Blount Rodman was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. He was a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1868 to 1878.-Life:... |
1836 | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Aaron A. F. Seawell Aaron A. F. Seawell Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell was a North Carolina politician and jurist. The son of A. A. F. and Jeannette L. Seawell, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1884 and later studied law there.... |
1884 | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Susie Sharp Susie Sharp Susie Marshall Sharp was an American jurist who served as the first female Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S... |
Grad. | Law | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, first female chief justice |
| James E. Shepherd James E. Shepherd James Edward Shepherd was a lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court.Shepherd was born at Mintonville, near Suffolk, Virginia, the son of Thomas Swepson Shepherd and his first wife Ann Eliza Browne... |
Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | ||
| David F. Simons David F. Simons David F. Simons is an employment attorney who has obtained high jury verdicts and settlements for employees working in the U.S. State of Hawaii, who have been wrongfully terminated.- Education, licensing, and early career :... |
1973 | Psychology | Attorney |
| Clive Stafford Smith Clive Stafford Smith Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE is a British [see talk] lawyer who specialises in the areas of civil rights and the death penalty in the United States of America.... |
Lawyer; founder of Reprieve | ||
| Walter P. Stacy Walter P. Stacy Walter Parker Stacy was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1925 until his death in 1951.Stacy was a 1908 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where a scholarship for law students was later established in his memory... |
1908 | Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Patricia Timmons-Goodson Patricia Timmons-Goodson Patricia 'Pat' Timmons-Goodson is an American judge, currently an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.... |
1976 / Grad. | Speech / Law | Current justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| John Webb | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | ||
| Willis Whichard Willis Whichard Willis P. Whichard is an American lawyer and a prominent figure in North Carolina politics and education. Whichard is the only person in the history of North Carolina who has served in both houses of the state legislature and on both of the state's appellate courts.-Legal & Civil Service... |
1962 / Grad. | History / Law | Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| J. Wallace Winborne J. Wallace Winborne John Wallace Winborne was an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1937-1962, including service as chief justice from 1956-1962.... |
Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | ||
Religious leaders
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Daniel III Clifton Daniel III Clifton Daniel III is the residing Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. He is the seventh bishop to serve the diocese.-Education:... |
1969 | Education | Episcopal Bishop and noted North Carolina native |
| Thomas F. Davis Thomas F. Davis Thomas Frederick Davis was the fifth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina.-Early life:Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of Thomas F. Davis and Sarah Davis. His brother, George Davis was Attorney General of the Confederate States. Davis graduated from the University of North... |
1822 | Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina | |
| Sam Dixon Sam Dixon (humanitarian) Samuel Williams Dixon, Jr. was the Deputy General Secretary of the United Methodist Committee on Relief . He died in Port-au-Prince while being rescued after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.... |
1971 | Political Science | Head of the United Methodist Committee on Relief |
| James Hervey Otey James Hervey Otey James Hervey Otey , Christian educator and the first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, established the first Anglican church in the state and its first parish churches.-Biography:... |
1820 / Grad | First Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee | |
| John Shelby Spong John Shelby Spong John Shelby "Jack" Spong is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. He was formerly the Bishop of Newark . He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author... |
1952 | Episcopal Bishop and liberal theologian | |
| Ruth Carter Stapleton Ruth Carter Stapleton Ruth Carter Stapleton was a sister of Jimmy Carter and was known in her own right as a Christian evangelist. She died of pancreatic cancer in 1983.- Early life :... |
Evangelist, sister of Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... |
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| G. Porter Taylor G. Porter Taylor Granville Porter Taylor is the fifth and current Episcopal Bishop of Western North Carolina and is seated at the Cathedral of All Souls.-Biography:... |
1972 | English | Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina The Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina is a diocese in the Episcopal Church. It consists of 27 counties in western North Carolina and its episcopal see is in Asheville, North Carolina, seated at Cathedral of All Souls.... |
| Lon Solomon Lon Solomon Lon Solomon is an American non-denominational Christian megachurch evangelist and the Senior Pastor at the McLean Bible Church in McLean, Virginia.- Personal biography :Lon Solomon was born and raised in a Jewish home in Portsmouth, VA.... |
1971 | Chemistry | Megachurch evangelist, former member of President’s Committee on Intellectual Disabilities |
Other
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| James H. "Jim" Brown | 1963 | Political Science | Former Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties... state senator, secretary of state, and insurance commissioner and father of journalist Campbell Brown Campbell Brown Campbell Brown is an American television news reporter and anchor. She previously hosted an eponymous primetime show on CNN and was formerly co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today... |
| Garry Conille Garry Conille Dr. Garry Conille is a Haitian academic, development worker, author, and current Prime Minister of Haiti.-Early life:... |
Grad. | Public Health | Current Prime Minister of Haiti Prime Minister of Haiti The Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti is the head of government of Haiti. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President and ratified by the National Assembly. He or she appoints the Ministers and Secretaries of State and goes before the National Assembly to obtain a vote of confidence for... |
| Walter H. Dalton Walter H. Dalton Walter H. Dalton is a Democratic politician from North Carolina and the state's current Lieutenant Governor. Prior to his election to that office, he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-sixth Senate district, including constituents in Cleveland and... |
1971 / Grad. | Law | Current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina is the second highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government... |
| Elizabeth Edwards Elizabeth Edwards Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S... |
1971 / Grad. | English / Law | Attorney, author and wife of John Edwards John Edwards Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in... |
| Thad A. Eure Thad A. Eure Thaddeus Armie Eure was a North Carolina political figure who holds the record for longest tenure as North Carolina Secretary of State .... |
1921 | Law | North Carolina Secretary of State |
| Rashad Hussain Rashad Hussain Rashad Hussain , is an American attorney, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , an intergovernmental group with 57 member states. Hussain, a Muslim of Indian heritage, has served in the White House Counsel's Office, and in his role as Envoy, has advised the... |
1999 | Philosophy & Political Science | United States special envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference |
| Karl Inderfurth Karl Inderfurth Karl F. "Rick" Inderfurth is an American diplomat. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs from August 1997 to January 2001. In his capacity as Assistant Secretary, Inderfurth was responsible for US policy regarding Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,... |
1968 | Political Science | Former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, former U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations United Nations The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace... |
| Jim Jordan | Grad. | Law | Political consultant |
| Moushira Khattab Moushira Khattab the text of this page is cut and pasted from the website of the concerned person. http://moushirakhattab.com/?page_id=2Ambassador Moushira Mahmoud Khattab, Ph.D is an Egyptian human rights activist, former politician & diplomat... |
Grad. | International Relations | Egyptian politician and diplomat |
| Howard Nathaniel Lee Howard Nathaniel Lee Howard Nathaniel Lee is an American politician from the U.S. state of North Carolina.After earning a bachelor's degree from Fort Valley State College and a Master's in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he accepted a position at Duke University in 1966.On May 6,... |
Grad. | Social Work | Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education |
| Mary J. Miller Mary J. Miller Mary John Miller is a United States banker who has been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets since February 2010.-Biography:Mary J. Miller was educated at Cornell University receiving a B.A. in Government in 1977... |
Grad. | City and Regional Planning | Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who heads the Office of Financial Markets.... |
| Otto Reich Otto Reich Otto Juan Reich , a Cuban-American, is former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush... |
1966 | International Studies | Former ambassador to Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... |
| Shari Villarosa Shari Villarosa Shari Villarosa is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. She served as the chargé d'affaires for the United States Embassy in Rangoon, August 2005 to September 2008... |
Acting ambassador to Burma | ||
| Richard Vinroot Richard Vinroot Richard A. Vinroot is a Republican political figure and attorney from Charlotte, North Carolina. He served as the 52nd Mayor of the City of Charlotte from 1991–1995, and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of North Carolina in 1996, 2000, and 2004.-Early life:The son of a Swedish immigrant, Richard... |
1963 / Grad. | Business / Law | Mayor of Charlotte |
Sciences
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Collins (geneticist) Francis Collins (geneticist) Francis Sellers Collins , is an American physician-geneticist, noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project . He currently serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to being appointed Director, he founded and... |
Grad. | Medicine | Director National Human Genome Project, discovered gene for cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis is a recessive genetic disease affecting most critically the lungs, and also the pancreas, liver, and intestine... , Director National Institutes of Health (2009–present) |
| Robert F. Furchgott Robert F. Furchgott Robert Francis Furchgott was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist.Furchgott was born in Charleston, SC, to Arthur Furchgott and Pena Sorentrue Furchgott... |
1937 | Chemistry | Chemist and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
| Seymour Geisser Seymour Geisser Seymour Geisser was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference – see predictive inference. In his book , he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist,... |
Grad. | Statistics | Statistician and DNA evidence expert, founder of the University of Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... 's School of Statistics |
| Ma Haide Ma Haide (George Hatem) Ma Haide , born Shafick George Hatem in Buffalo, New York, USA, is an ethnic Lebanese Chinese doctor.- Family background :Shafick George Hatem was born into a Lebanese-American family in upstate New York... |
1932 | Pre-medicine | Doctor and public health official in China |
| Howard T. Odum Howard T. Odum Howard Thomas Odum was an American ecologist... |
1947 | Zoology | Ecosystem ecologist Ecosystem ecology Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework. This science examines how ecosystems work and relates this to their components such as chemicals, bedrock, soil, plants, and animals.Ecosystem ecology... |
| Barbara Rothbaum Barbara Rothbaum Barbara Rothbaum, Ph.D., is a psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department.Dr. Rothbaum is head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory... |
1982 | Psychology | Psychologist |
| Tamara Sher Tamara Sher Tamara Goldman Sher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Vice President for Research at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of Behavioral Medicine and Couples Therapy... |
Grad. | Psychology | NIH Researcher and IIT Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law... Professor |
| Kevin R. Stone | Grad. | Medicine | Orthopedic surgeon and founder of The Stone Clinic The Stone Clinic The Stone Clinic is a sports medicine clinic in San Francisco, California, offering orthopaedic surgery and medical care, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and radiology imaging services. The Stone Clinic was founded by Kevin R... |
| Charles Tart Charles Tart Dr. Charles T. Tart is an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness , as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. He earned his Ph. D... |
Grad. | Psychology | Psychologist |
Baseball players
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Ackley Dustin Ackley Dustin Michael Ackley is an American professional baseball second baseman with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. Ackley was drafted and selected second overall by the Mariners in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. He is a natural outfielder, though he played first base his junior... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Russ Adams Russ Adams Russ Moore Adams is a former Major League Baseball player who played for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, and New York Mets organizations. Adams bats left-handed and throws with his right hand.... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Daniel Bard Daniel Bard Daniel Paul Bard is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Bard made his debut with the Red Sox in May 2009.-Collegiate career:... |
2006 | Professional baseball player | |
| Moonlight Graham Moonlight Graham Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Adam Greenberg | Professional baseball player | ||
| Gary Hill Gary Hill (basketball) Gary Weir Hill was an American professional basketball player. Before playing professional basketball in the NBA, Hill came from Rocky, Oklahoma, where Bud, Henry and Ron Koper, Jay and Dennis Harris and Steve Fite came from before starring at Oklahoma City University. They became known as the... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Chris Iannetta Chris Iannetta Christopher Domenic Iannetta is an American professional baseball catcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball.-High school:... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Michael Jordan Michael Jordan Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats... |
Geography | Professional baseball player, professional basketball player and member of the basketball hall of fame | |
| Andrew Miller | Professional baseball player | ||
| Brian Roberts Brian Roberts Brian Michael Roberts is an American Major League Baseball All Star second baseman, nicknamed B-Rob.He made his Major League debut in and has spent his entire professional career with the Baltimore Orioles organization, located in Baltimore, Maryland.-Early life, education and college-baseball... |
transferred to USC University of South Carolina The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House... |
Professional baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... player |
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| Paul Shuey Paul Shuey Paul Kenneth Shuey , is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who last played for the Baltimore Orioles.... |
Professional baseball player | ||
| Kyle Snyder Kyle Snyder Kyle Ehren Snyder is an American baseball player, who is a former relief pitcher.Snyder played with the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox . He is listed at 6-8 and 220 pounds, is a switch hitter, and throws right-handed.... |
Professional baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... player |
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| B.J. Surhoff B.J. Surhoff William James "B. J." Surhoff is a former catcher, outfielder, first baseman, third baseman, and designated hitter in Major League Baseball. Over his 18-year major league career, he played every position except pitcher... |
Former Professional baseball player | ||
| Walt Weiss Walt Weiss Walter William Weiss is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball.Weiss was a member of the National League All-Star Team... |
Former professional baseball player | ||
| Brad Woodall Brad Woodall David Bradley Woodall is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.... |
Professional baseball player | ||
Basketball players
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dudley Bradley Dudley Bradley Dudley Leroy Bradley is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA.Bradley played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and was selected 13th overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers... |
1979 | Recreation administration | Professional basketball player |
| Pete Brennan Pete Brennan Peter Joseph "Pete" Brennan is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiately for the University of North Carolina, where he was chosen ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year in the 1957-58 season.... |
1958 | Industrial relations | Professional basketball player |
| Larry Brown Larry Brown (basketball) Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown is an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats.... |
1963 | History | College and professional basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Steve Bucknall Steve Bucknall Steven Lee Bucknall is a retired English professional basketball player, and former head coach of British Basketball League expansion franchise London Capital.... |
1989 | Radio, television & motion picture | Professional basketball player and coach |
| Vince Carter Vince Carter Vincent Lamar "Vince" Carter is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns. He is a shooting guard who can also play small forward.... |
2001 | African-American Studies | Professional basketball player |
| Pete Chilcutt Pete Chilcutt Peter Shawn Chilcutt is a retired American basketball player in the NBA.... |
1991 | Industrial relations & psychology | Professional basketball player |
| Ed Cota Ed Cota Eduardo Enrique Cota is an American professional basketball player. The 6' 0", 195-lb. point guard played for Atlas Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski in Poland. He is currently living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Sylvia Crawley Sylvia Crawley Sylvia Crawley is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball forward, licensed minister and motivational speaker... |
1994 | Radio, Television & Motion Picture | Professional basketball player |
| Billy Cunningham Billy Cunningham William John "Billy" Cunningham is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid.- Beginnings :... |
1971 | History | Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Brad Daugherty | 1986 | Radio, Television & Motion Picture | Former professional basketball player and sportscaster |
| Hubert Davis | 1992 | Criminal Justice | Professional basketball player |
| Walter Davis Walter Davis (basketball) Walter Paul Davis is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" forward/guard, Davis spent 15 years in the National Basketball Association, spending the bulk of those years with the Phoenix Suns... |
1988 | Recreation Administration | Professional basketball player |
| John Dillon John "Hook" Dillon John "Hook" Dillon was an American basketball player.He played collegiately for the University of North Carolina from 1945 to 1948. Prior to attending UNC, he previously played in the Savannah Ice Delivery city league and Benedictine Military Academy.Dillon earned All-America honors in 1946 and... |
1948 | Professional basketball player | |
| Wayne Ellington Wayne Ellington Wayne Robert Ellington Jr. , is an American basketball player who was drafted 28th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Darrell Elston Darrell Elston Darrell Eugene Elston is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'3½" 190 lb guard and played collegiately at the University of North Carolina.... |
1974 | History | Professional basketball player |
| Raymond Felton Raymond Felton Raymond Bernard Felton, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association . A point guard, Felton is listed at 6'1 and 205 lbs. Felton played college basketball for the North Carolina under head coach Roy... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Phil Ford | 1978 | Business administration | Professional basketball player |
| Joseph Forte Joseph Forte Joseph Xavier "Joe" Forte is an American professional basketball player.-Beginnings:Forte got his start at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. There, Forte played under the instruction of legendary high school prep coach Morgan Wootten. Forte's teammate at DeMatha, Keith Bogans,... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Rick Fox Rick Fox Ulrich Alexander "Rick" Fox is a Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 2004.-Early life:... |
1994 | Radio, Television & Motion Picture | Professional basketball player and actor |
| George Glamack George Glamack George Gregory Glamack was an American basketball player.The 6'7" giant, during that era, attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Glamack, an All-America in 1940 and 1941, was nicknamed the Blind Bomber because of his poor eyesight and remarkably accurate hook shot... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Danny Green Danny Green (basketball) Daniel Richard "Danny" Green, Jr. is an American professional basketball player for KK Union Olimpija in Slovenia. He is a 6'6" guard-forward from North Carolina. Danny has the most wins in North Carolina history: he played in more games and had more wins than any Tar Heel before him... |
2009 | Communications | Professional basketball player |
| Tyler Hansbrough Tyler Hansbrough Andrew Tyler Hansbrough is an American basketball player for the Indiana Pacers. Hansbrough completed a college basketball career with the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team in 2009, and was drafted into the NBA by the Indiana Pacers with the 13th pick of the 1st round of the 2009 NBA... |
2009 | Communications | Professional basketball player |
| Brendan Haywood Brendan Haywood Brendan Todd Haywood is an American professional basketball player. The 7' 0", 263-lb. center currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association.-College:... |
2001 | Communications | Professional basketball player |
| Antawn Jamison Antawn Jamison Antawn Cortez Jamison is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He currently plays power forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers and was a member of the USA National Team for the 2006 FIBA World Championships... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Bobby Jones | 1974 | Psychology | Professional basketball player |
| Marion Jones Marion Jones Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA... |
Professional basketball player and former track and field athlete | ||
| Michael Jordan Michael Jordan Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats... |
1986 | Geography | Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| George Karl George Karl George Matthew Karl is a former National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player. He is the current head coach of the Denver Nuggets. On December 10, 2010 he became the seventh coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins.-Biography:Karl was born in Penn Hills,... |
Professional basketball player and coach | ||
| Tommy Kearns Tommy Kearns Thomas Francis "Tommy" Kearns Jr. is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiately for the University of North Carolina, where he played an integral role on the 1957 National Championship team... |
1958 | History | Professional basketball player |
| Mitch Kupchak Mitch Kupchak Mitchell "Mitch" Kupchak is a retired American basketball player and current general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers since the 2000–01 NBA season after predecessor Jerry West moved to the Memphis Grizzlies organization.... |
1976 | Political science & Psychology | Professional basketball player and general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association... |
| Ivory Latta Ivory Latta Ivory Latta is an American professional basketball player. A 5'6" guard noted for her three-point shooting and on-court enthusiasm, she played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels... |
2007 | Exercise & sports science | Professional basketball player |
| York Larese York Larese York Bruno Larese is a retired American basketball player and coach. In his childhood, he attended St. Ann's academy in Queens.... |
1961 | Sociology | Professional basketball player and coach |
| Ty Lawson | Professional basketball player | ||
| George Lynch George Lynch (basketball) George DeWitt Lynch III is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He holds the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball record for most career steals.... |
1993 | African studies | Professional basketball player |
| Sean May | 2009 | African-American studies | Professional basketball player |
| Bob McAdoo | Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame | ||
| Rashad McCants Rashad McCants Rashad Dion McCants is an American professional basketball player.-High school career:... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Rashanda McCants Rashanda McCants Rashanda McCants is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.Her brother is Rashad McCants of the NBA.-High school:... |
2009 | Professional basketball player | |
| Jeff McInnis Jeff McInnis Jeff Lemans McInnis is a basketball player. He has played in the NBA, in Greece and in the CBA .-Career:... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Horace McKinney Bones McKinney Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American professional basketball player and coach.... |
1948 | Professional basketball player and coach, college coach | |
| Larry Miller Larry Miller (basketball) Lawrence James Miller is a retired American basketball player.As the All American star of his Catasauqua High School team, Miller scored 46 of his team's 66 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in a 65-62 win over Steelton High in the 1964 Pennsylvania state playoffs at the Hershey Arena.A 6'4"... |
1968 | Business administration | Professional basketball player |
| Doug Moe Doug Moe Douglas Edwin Moe is an American professional basketball coach. He is most closely associated with the Denver Nuggets franchise.... |
Professional basketball player and coach | ||
| Eric Montross Eric Montross Eric Scott Montross is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA.... |
1994 | Professional basketball player | |
| David Noel David Noel David Anthony Noel III is an American professional basketball player. A graduate of Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina and the University of North Carolina, Noel was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft with their lone pick, 39th overall.Noel... |
2006 | African-American studies | Professional basketball player |
| Ademola Okulaja Ademola Okulaja Ademola Okulaja, is a former German professional basketball player. The last team he played for were the Brose Baskets from Germany... |
1999 | International studies | Professional basketball player |
| Sam Perkins Sam Perkins Samuel Perkins is a retired American professional basketball player, also known by the nicknames "Sleepy Sam" and "Big Smooth." He attended Samuel J. Tilden High School, Shaker High School and the University of North Carolina, where he was a teammate of Michael Jordan... |
1984 | Radio, Television & Motion Picture | Professional basketball player |
| Dave Popson Dave Popson David G. Popson is a retired American basketball player who enjoyed a brief NBA career from 1988 until 1992. Popson, a 6'10" center, played college basketball at the University of North Carolina for four years . Popson was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the fourth round of the 1987 NBA Draft... |
1987 | Geography | Professional basketball player |
| J.R. Reid | 1992 | Radio, Television & Motion Picture | Professional basketball player |
| Henrik Rödl Henrik Rödl Henrik Rödl is a retired German professional basketball player, and currently a basketball coach. He played college basketball in the US for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina... |
1993 | Biology | Professional basketball player and coach |
| Lennie Rosenbluth Lennie Rosenbluth Leonard Robert "Lennie" Rosenbluth is an American former basketball player.-Biography:... |
1957 | Professional basketball player | |
| Clifford Rozier Clifford Rozier Clifford Glen Rozier is a retired American professional basketball player.He was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the 1st round of the 1994 NBA Draft. Rozier played for the Warriors, Toronto Raptors and Minnesota Timberwolves in 4 NBA seasons... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Charlie Scott Charlie Scott Charles Thomas Scott is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association .A 6'5" guard/forward from the Laurinburg Institute... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Lee Shaffer Lee Shaffer Lee Philip Shafer II is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward, Shaffer starred at the University of North Carolina, where he was the ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1960. He then played three seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the... |
1960 | Business administration | Professional basketball player |
| Charlotte Smith | 1999 | Sociology | Professional basketball player |
| Kenny Smith Kenny Smith Kenneth "The Jet" Smith is a retired National Basketball Association player and current TV basketball analyst, primarily for Inside the NBA on TNT.-Early life:... |
Professional basketball player and basketball analyst | ||
| Jerry Stackhouse Jerry Stackhouse Jerry Darnell Stackhouse is an American professional basketball player who plays both shooting guard and small forward. He most recently played for the Miami Heat. He is now an NBA TV analyst but remains as an eligible free agent.... |
1999 | African-American Studies | Professional basketball player |
| Rasheed Wallace Rasheed Wallace Rasheed Abdul Wallace is a retired American professional basketball power forward and center who played from 1995 to 2010 in the National Basketball Association... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Marvin Williams Marvin Williams Marvin Gaye Williams, Jr. is an American professional basketball player. He currently is playing for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and is listed at 6' 9" and 240 pounds... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Scott Williams Scott Williams (basketball) Scott Christopher Williams is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. Standing at 6' 10", he was capable of playing as a power forward or a center.-Early life / College career:... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Shammond Williams Shammond Williams Shammond Omar Williams is a naturalized Georgian professional basketball player who grew up in the United States . The 6'1" combination point guard/shooting guard is known for his long-range shooting accuracy... |
Professional basketball player | ||
| Joe Wolf Joe Wolf Joseph "Joe" James Wolf is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He was the 13th overall pick of the 1987 NBA Draft, selected by the Los Angeles Clippers. He played college basketball at the University of North Carolina... |
1987 | Industrial Relations | Professional basketball player |
| Al Wood Al Wood Martin Alphonzo Wood is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the 1981 NBA Draft. A 6'6" guard-forward from the University of North Carolina, Wood played in 6 NBA seasons for 4 different teams... |
1988 | Recreation Administration | Professional basketball player |
| James Worthy James Worthy James Ager Worthy is a retired Hall of Fame American college and professional basketball player. Named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, "Big Game James" was a seven-time NBA All-Star and three-time NBA champion... |
1985 | Recreation Administration | Professional basketball player and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Brandan Wright Brandan Wright Brandan Keith Wright is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association . Growing up in Tennessee, Wright fast became a standout at his high school Brentwood Academy, earning an unprecedented three "Mr. Basketball" titles, a... |
Professional basketball player | ||
Basketball coaches
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Brown Larry Brown (basketball) Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown is an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats.... |
1963 | History | College and professional basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Jason Capel Jason Capel Jason Maurice Capel is the 15th and current head coach of the Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball team. Capel is the youngest head coach in Division I... |
2002 | Communications | Current head coach of the Appalachian State Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball The Appalachian State Mountaineers basketball team is the college basketball team at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. The Mountaineers have competed in the Southern Conference since 1972, and are currently a Division I member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .... |
| Scott Cherry Scott Cherry Scott Cherry is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at High Point University. He replaced Bart Lundy.-High School Career:... |
1993 | Business administration | College basketball coach |
| Billy Cunningham Billy Cunningham William John "Billy" Cunningham is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid.- Beginnings :... |
1971 | History | Professional basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Matt Doherty | 1984 | Business administration | College basketball coach |
| Eddie Fogler Eddie Fogler Eddie Fogler was a college basketball player from the University of North Carolina from 1967-1970 where he played as a point guard on two NCAA Final Four teams. Fogler was an All-City guard from Flushing High School in Flushing, New York.... |
1970 / Grad. | Mathematics / Physical Education | College basketball coach |
| George Karl George Karl George Matthew Karl is a former National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player. He is the current head coach of the Denver Nuggets. On December 10, 2010 he became the seventh coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins.-Biography:Karl was born in Penn Hills,... |
Professional basketball player and coach | ||
| John Kuester John Kuester John Dewitt Kuester, Jr. is an American basketball coach.He played in the NBA from 1977 to 1980 and then coached in the college ranks before moving on to the NBA sidelines as an assistant. Kuester was named head coach of the Detroit Pistons on July 9, 2009... |
1977 | Health | Professional and college coach |
| Jeff Lebo Jeff Lebo -External links:*** @ basketballreference.com... |
1990 | Business Administration | College basketball coach |
| Monk McDonald Monk McDonald Angus Morris "Monk" McDonald was an American college athlete, a head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, and a urologist... |
1923 / Grad. | Medicine | College basketball player and coach |
| Doug Moe Doug Moe Douglas Edwin Moe is an American professional basketball coach. He is most closely associated with the Denver Nuggets franchise.... |
Professional basketball player and coach | ||
| Mike O'Koren Mike O'Koren Mike O'Koren is a retired American professional basketball player, a former associate head coach of the Washington Wizards from 2005 to 2008, and a former assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets from 1999 to 2003. He was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the 1st round of the 1980 NBA Draft... |
1980 | Recreation Administration | Professional basketball player and coach |
| Buzz Peterson Buzz Peterson Robert Bower "Buzz" Peterson, Jr. is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team. Peterson was the Head Coach of the Tennessee Volunteers for four years before being fired in 2005. He previously coached a second stint at Appalachian State--he coached the 2009–10... |
1986 | Geography | College basketball coach |
| King Rice King Rice King Rice is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Monmouth University. Rice replaced Dave Calloway as head coach of the Hawks on March 29, 2011. Previously, Rice was also the head coach of the Bahamas national basketball team from 2001 to 2004... |
1992 | Radio, television & motion picture | College basketball coach |
| Henrik Rödl Henrik Rödl Henrik Rödl is a retired German professional basketball player, and currently a basketball coach. He played college basketball in the US for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina... |
1993 | Biology | Professional basketball player and coach |
| Tony Shaver Tony Shaver Tony Shaver is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at The College of William & Mary... |
1976 / Grad. | Business Administration / Education | College basketball coach |
| Roy Williams Roy Williams (coach) Roy Williams is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging nearly an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003... |
1972 / Grad. | Education | Current North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame |
Football players
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| Sam Aiken
Sam Aiken
Samuel Aiken is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
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| Ethan Albright
Ethan Albright
Lawrence Ethan Albright is an American football long snapper who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 1995. He played college football at North Carolina. He is known mainly as a long snapper...
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| Frank Aschenbrenner
Frank Aschenbrenner
-Career:Aschenbrenner played with the Chicago Hornets of the All-American Football Conference in 1949. He had previously been drafted in the sixth round of the 1947 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers....
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| Matthew Baker
Matt Baker (American football)
Matthew David Baker is an American football quarterback who is a currently a free agent. He was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2006...
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| Connor Barth
Connor Barth
Connor Thomas Barth is an American football placekicker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at North Carolina....
||2007 ||Communications Studies || Professional football player
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| Harris Barton
Harris Barton
Harris Scott Barton is a former American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers.-Early life:...
|| ||Finance || Professional football player
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| Dré Bly
Dré Bly
Donald André "Dré" Bly is a former American football cornerback who played for eleven seasons in the National Football League. After playing college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Bly was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
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| Alge Crumpler
Alge Crumpler
-Atlanta Falcons:Crumpler was drafted by the Falcons in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft. Crumpler made the first start of his NFL career against the Carolina Panthers on September 23, 2001. He caught his first two passes for a total of 13 yards. His first touchdown was scored against the...
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| Ronald Curry
Ronald Curry
Ronald Antonio Curry is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft after playing college football at North Carolina....
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| Dave Drechsler
Dave Drechsler
Dave Drechsler is a former guard in the National Football League. In the 1983 NFL Draft, Dreschsler was drafted in the second round by the Green Bay Packers and played two seasons with the team. He played at the collegiate level at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-References:...
|| || || Professional football player
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| Greg Ellis || || || Professional football player
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| Brooks Foster
Brooks Foster
Foster broke Eddie Royal's record for most bench press reps ever for a wide receiver at the NFL combine.-St. Louis Rams:On April 26, 2009, Foster was drafted in the fifth round by the St. Louis Rams. Unfortunately, his rookie season would be cut short after injuring his ankle against the New York...
||2008 ||Management & Society || Professional football player
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| Jeff Hayes
Jeff Hayes
Jeffrey Clyde Hayes is a former American football punter in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals, and the Miami Dolphins. He played in Super Bowl XVII and XVIII for the Washington Redskins. Hayes played college football at the University of North Carolina...
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| William Henderson || || || Professional football player
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| Jesse Holley
Jesse Holley
Jesse Holley is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at North Carolina...
|| || || Professional football player
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| Charlie Justice || || || Professional football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
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| Kivuusama Mays
Kivuusama Mays
-Career:Kivuusama was drafted in the fourth round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings and played that season with the team. He split the following season between the Vikings and the Green Bay Packers....
|| || || Professional football player
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| Don McCauley
Don McCauley
Don McCauley was a tailback for the University of North Carolina from 1968 to 1970 and he attended the Garden City High School.He was a two-time First Team All-Conference selection and two-time Conference Player of the Year. He garnered the 1971 ACC Athlete of the Year award. He broke many rushing...
|| || || Consensus All-American and professional football player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
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| Tom McCauley
Tom McCauley (American football)
Tom McCauley is a former defensive back in the National Football League. He was drafted in the tenth round of the 1969 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings and would play three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons.-References:...
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| Natrone Means || || || Professional football player
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| Hakeem Nicks
Hakeem Nicks
-New York Giants:On August 1, 2009, Nicks signed a five-year, $12.54 million contract. The deal includes a $6.5 million signing bonus. During training camp, Nicks vied for a starting position with the Giants other receivers, most notably Domenik Hixon and Steve Smith.2009Nicks made his first career...
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| Willie Parker
Willie Parker
"Fast" Willie Everette Parker Jr. is an American football running back for the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at North Carolina...
|| || || Professional football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player
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| Julius Peppers
Julius Peppers
Julius Frazier Peppers is an American football defensive end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Nicknamed The Freak of Nature, he was drafted by the Carolina Panthers second overall in the 2002 NFL Draft...
|| || || Professional football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player
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| Jeff Reed || || || Professional football player
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| Dexter Reid
Dexter Reid
Dexter Devon Reid Jr. is an American football safety. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft after playing his college football at the University of North Carolina...
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| Jeff Saturday
Jeff Saturday
Jeffrey Bryant Saturday is an American football center for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He played college football at North Carolina. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Football League Players' Association.-Early years:Saturday attended...
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| Brian Simmons
Brian Simmons
Brian Eugene Simmons is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 17th overall in the 1998 NFL Draft...
|| || || Professional football player
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| Dave Simmons || || || Professional football player
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| Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Julius Taylor , nicknamed "L.T.", is a Hall of Fame former American football player. Taylor played his entire professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giants in the National Football League...
|| || || Professional football player and member of the Football Hall of Fame
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| David Thornton || || || Professional football player
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| Art Weiner
Art Weiner
Art Weiner played American football as All American end at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946-1949....
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| T.J. Yates || || || Professional football player
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Football coaches
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| Charlie Baggett
Charlie Baggett
-Biography:Baggett was born on January 21, 1953 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He first the attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later transferred to Michigan State University where he played quarterback on the football team...
|| || || College and professional football coach
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| Scot Dapp
Scot Dapp
Scot Dapp is an American football coach. He has been the head coach at Moravian College since 1987.He was the president of the American Football Coaches Association in 2005....
||Grad. ||Physical Education || College football coach
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| Jim Tatum
Jim Tatum
James M. "Big Jim" Tatum was an American football and baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the University of Oklahoma , and the University of Maryland, College Park , compiling a career college football record of...
||1939 ||Business Administration || College football coach
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| Kevin Wilson
Kevin R. Wilson
Kevin R. Wilson is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers.-Playing career:Wilson played offensive line and linebacker at Maiden High School...
||1984 / Grad. ||Mathematics / Physical Education || Head coach of Indiana University
Indiana Hoosiers football
The Indiana Hoosiers football program represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and in the Big Ten Conference.-Bowl games:...
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Golfers
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| Meaghan Francella
Meaghan Francella
Meaghan Francella is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.-Early life and amateur career:Francella was born in Port Chester, New York and was twice the New York State Junior Champion. She attended high school at the School of the Holy Child in Rye, New York...
||2005 ||Communications|| Professional golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er
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| Raymond Floyd
Raymond Floyd
Raymond Loran "Ray" Floyd is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....
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| Davis Love III
Davis Love III
Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA...
|| || || Professional golfer
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| Ashley Prange
Ashley Prange
Ashley Prange is a professional golfer and winner of the reality television program The Big Break V: Hawaii.-College and amateur career:...
|| || || Professional golfer
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| Harvie Ward
Harvie Ward
Edward Harvie Ward, Jr. was an American golfer best known for his amateur career. He is best known for winning both the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur....
||1951 ||Economics || Amateur golfer
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Soccer
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| Yael Averbuch
Yael Averbuch
Yael Friedman Averbuch is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for Western New York Flash of Women's Professional Soccer, and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team....
|| ||Psychology || Professional soccer player
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| Gregg Berhalter
Gregg Berhalter
Gregg Berhalter is a retired American soccer player who currently is an assistant coach for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.-Youth and College:...
|| || || Professional soccer player
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| Chris Carrieri
Chris Carrieri
Chris Carrieri is an American soccer player currently playing for Richmond Kickers in the USL Second Division.-College and Amateur:...
|| || || Professional soccer player
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| Matt Crawford
Matt Crawford
Matthew David Crawford is an American soccer midfielder who last played for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer....
||2003||Biology || Professional soccer player
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| Lorrie Fair
Lorrie Fair
Lorraine Ming "Lorrie" Fair was a member of the World Cup Champion United States national soccer team. Over the span of ten years, she was a part of one World Cup Team and three Olympic teams, and retired from international play in 2005.Her twin sister, Veronica Ching Fair, was also a member of...
|| || || U.S Women's National Team soccer player
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| Jordan Graye
Jordan Graye
Jordan Graye is an American soccer player.-College:Graye attended DeMatha Catholic High School, played club soccer for Reston FC, and played for the D.C. United Academy's U-14, U-15, U-16 and U-20 teams, and helped the U-14 squad win the Super Y-League National Title in 2001, qualifying for the...
||2010 || || Professional soccer player
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| Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm
Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female,...
||1993|| || U.S Women's National Team soccer player
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| April Heinrichs ||1986 ||Radio, Television & Motion Picture|| U.S Women's National Team soccer player
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| Jason Hughes
Jason Hughes
Jason Hughes is the owner-driver of the Kartworld Racing auto racing team, which has competed in the British Touring Car Championship from 2003 to 2008...
||2006|| Exercise & sports science|| Professional soccer player
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| Chris Leitch
Chris Leitch
Chris Leitch is an American soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.-College:...
|||| || Professional soccer player
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| Eric Lichaj
Eric Lichaj
Eric Joseph Lichaj is an American soccer player who plays for Aston Villa. Lichaj also plays for the United States men's national team. He started his youth career playing for Chicago Magic and participated in the youth residency program at IMG Soccer Academy. He later played college soccer for...
|| || || Professional soccer player
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| Kristine Lilly
Kristine Lilly
Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey is a retired American soccer player who last played for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team for 24 years...
|| || || U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
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| Logan Pause
Logan Pause
Logan Pause is an American soccer player who currently plays for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
||2007||Economics || Professional soccer player
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| Heather O'Reilly
Heather O'Reilly
Heather Ann O'Reilly , also known by her initials HAO, is a member of the United States women's national soccer team and a two-time Olympic Gold medalist...
|| || || U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
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| Cindy Parlow || || || U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
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| Eddie Pope
Eddie Pope
George Edward Pope is a retired American soccer player who last played for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer and spent eleven years as a defender for the United States national team. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.-Youth:Born in Greensboro, he attended Southwest Guilford...
|| || || Professional soccer player
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| Eddie Robinson
Eddie Robinson (soccer)
Eddie Robinson is an American soccer player who currently plays for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.-College:...
|| || || Professional soccer player
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| David Stokes
David Stokes
David Stokes is an American soccer player, who last played three seasons in Major League Soccer and two in the USL First Division.-High school and college:...
||2009||Communications || Professional soccer player
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| Carey Talley
Carey Talley
Carey Talley is a former American soccer player.-College:Talley played high school soccer for Houston High School in Germantown, Tennessee. His team won the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association soccer championship his junior and senior years in 1993 and 1994. He played his club soccer...
|||| || Professional soccer player
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| Lindsay Tarpley
Lindsay Tarpley
Lindsay Ann Tarpley Snow is an American soccer forward currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team. She went to Portage Central High School.-High school:Tarpley grew up in Portage, Michigan, and attended Portage...
|| || || Professional soccer player and ESPN Rise player of the decade '00's
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| David Testo
David Testo
David Testo is an American soccer player. He is one of the few openly gay athletes in professional sports.-College:...
|| 2009||Management & society|| Professional soccer player
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| Cat Whitehill
Cat Whitehill
Cat Whitehill is an American soccer player. She plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer and the United States women's national soccer team, and formerly played on the Washington Freedom W-League team.She was born in Richmond, Virginia, but grew up in Birmingham,...
|| || || United States Women's National Team soccer player
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| Kerry Zavagnin
Kerry Zavagnin
Kerry Zavagnin is a former American soccer midfielder, who last played defensive midfielder for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer, and sparingly for the US national team. Kerry Zavaginin also went to and played soccer for Detroit Catholic Central High School...
||2000 ||Exercise & sports science || Professional soccer player
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| Tobin Heath
Tobin Heath
Tobin Powell Heath is an American soccer player, an Olympic Gold medalist, and a FIFA Women's World Cup Finalist. According to United States Soccer Federation, Heath is "perhaps the USA's most skillful player" and is "one of the team's best and most crafty dribblers"...
|| || || U.S. Women's National Team soccer player
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Sports administrators
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| James Delany
James Delany
James E. Delany is the current commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, a role in which he has served since 1989. He is regarded among college athletics as being influential in the creation of the Bowl Championship Series and its maintenance....
||1970 / Grad. ||Political Science / Law || Commissioner of the Big Ten
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| Mitch Kupchak
Mitch Kupchak
Mitchell "Mitch" Kupchak is a retired American basketball player and current general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers since the 2000–01 NBA season after predecessor Jerry West moved to the Memphis Grizzlies organization....
||1976 || Political Science & Psychology || Professional basketball player and general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
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| Danny Morrison
Danny Morrison (sports executive)
Danny Morrison is currently serving as the President of the Carolina Panthers after previously serving in college sports administration.Morrison was the Athletic Director at Wofford College from 1985 to 1997 and then as a Senior Vice President until 2001. As a student he played basketball for the...
||Grad. ||Education administration & supervision || President of the Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...
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| John Swofford
John Swofford
John Swofford is currently the Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference He was born on December 6, 1948 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While at Wilkes Central High School, he played as quarterback for the Wilkes Central Eagles football team...
||1971 ||Psychology || Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
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| Donnie Walsh
Donnie Walsh
Joseph Donald Walsh Jr., better known as Donnie Walsh is a former professional basketball coach, and former president of basketball operations for the New York Knicks.-Biography:...
||1962 / Grad. ||Political Science / Law || President of New York Knicks
New York Knicks
The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
, former CEO of Indiana Pacers
Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...
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Track and field
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"! width="20%" | Name
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| Jim Beatty
Jim Beatty
James Tully Beatty is a former American track and field athlete who is best remembered as the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on an indoor track when he ran 3:58.9 on February 10, 1962 in Los Angeles, California.Beatty graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
|| || || First person to run a four-minute mile
Four-minute mile
In the sport of athletics, the four-minute mile is the act of completing the mile run in less than four minutes. It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister in 3:59.4. The 'four minute barrier' has since been broken by many male athletes, and is now the standard of all male professional...
indoors
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| LaTasha Colander
LaTasha Colander
LaTasha Colander is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is a 2004 Olympic Trials 100 m Champion; two-time U.S. 400 m champion ; World Record Holder, 4 x 200 m relay; 1994 USA Juniors champion ; 2nd, 1994 World Junior Champs...
||1998||Communications || Former track and field athlete
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| Dominic Demeritte
Dominic Demeritte
Dominic Demeritte is a sprints athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.He became indoor world champion in 2004, his result 20.66 a new Bahamian record...
||1999||Economics|| Former track and field athlete
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| Allen Johnson
Allen Johnson
Allen Kenneth Johnson is a retired hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia....
|| || || Former track and field athlete
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| Marion Jones
Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA...
|| || || Former track and field athlete and professional basketball player
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| Earl Owens
Earl Owens
Earl Owens is a long distance runner. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1967-1971 and participated in Cross-Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Coached by Joe Hilton, Head Coach, and Boyd Newnam, Running Coach....
|| || || Professional runner and triathlete
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| Tony Waldrop
Tony Waldrop
Tony Waldrop is an American professor, academic administrator and athlete, currently serving as the provost and executive vice president of the University of Central Florida. Waldrop is best known for setting the world indoor record in the mile...
|| 1974 / Grad. || Political science / Physiology || Gold medalist 1975 Pan American Games
1975 Pan American Games
The 7th Pan American Games were held in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 12 to October 26, 1975, exactly twenty years after the 2nd Pan American Games were held there...
in the 1500 meter, Provost of the University of Central Florida
University of Central Florida
The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States...
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Other
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| Shalane Flanagan
Shalane Flanagan
Shalane Flanagan is an American distance runner. She currently holds the American record times in the 3000 m , 5000 m , and 10,000 m...
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| Rob Koll
Rob Koll
Rob Koll is the David R. Dunlop ’59 Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell University. Koll has lead his team to five top-five finishes in the NCAA Division I wrestling tournament, including second place finishes in 2010 and 2011. The 2010 and 2011 finishes were the best ever for an Ivy League team...
||1989 ||Speech || College wrestling coach
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| Nick Monroe
Nick Monroe
Benjamin Nicholas "Nick" Monroe is an American professional tennis player. He has won three ATP Challenger titles in his career.- College career :...
|| || || Professional tennis player
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| Cindy Werley
Cindy Werley
Cindy Werley is a former Olympic field hockey forward from the United States, who made her international debut for the Women's National Team in 1994...
|| || || U.S. Olympic field hockey player
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Miscellaneous
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| Rye Barcott
Rye Barcott
Rye Barcott is author of . He is a former Marine and cofounder of , an acclaimed non-governmental organization that uses a unique model of participatory development to break cycles of violence and develop leaders in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya...
|| 2001|| Peace, War, and Defense || Founder of Carolina for Kibera
Carolina for Kibera
Founded in 2001 by Rye Barcott, Salim Mohamed, and the late Tabitha Atieno Festo, Carolina for Kibera is a 501 international non-governmental organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. CFK has an office and youth center in Kibera, as well as support services based at the Center for...
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| Caleb Bradham
Caleb Bradham
Caleb Davis Bradham invented the soft drink Pepsi-Cola. He was a pharmacist, born in Chinquapin, Duplin County, North Carolina, May 27, 1867...
|| 1890|| || Pharmacist and inventor of Pepsi-Cola
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| Charles E. Brady, Jr.
Charles E. Brady, Jr.
Charles Eldon Brady, Jr. was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.-Personal data:...
|| 1971 || Pre-medicine|| Astronaut
Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
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| Eve Carson ||2008 || Biology and Political Science || Student Body President, Murdered in 2008
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| Hinton James ||1798||Arts and Sciences||First student to register||
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| Jerry M. Linenger
Jerry M. Linenger
Jerry Michael Linenger, M.D., M.S.S.M., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a former NASA astronaut, who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir.-Background:...
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| Julia Compton Moore
Julia Compton Moore
The award recognizes the civilian spouses of soldiers for "Outstanding Contributions to the United States Army".-See also:*Battle of Ia Drang*We Were Soldiers*We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young*Joseph L. Galloway*Hal Moore-References:...
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Hal Moore
Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army and author. Moore is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, which is the second highest military decoration of the United States Army, and was the first of his West Point class to be promoted to...
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| Charles Moose
Charles Moose
Charles Alexander Moose is an American law enforcement official and author. A native of New York City who grew up in North Carolina, he has served as the chief of police for Montgomery County, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon...
|| 1975 || History || Former police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, situated just to the north of Washington, D.C., and southwest of the city of Baltimore. It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate...
who investigated Beltway snipers in 2002
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| Johnston Pettigrew ||1847 ||Arts & Sciences || Confederate General in the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
who participated in Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander,...
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| Jonathan Reckford
Jonathan Reckford
Jonathan Reckford is an American businessman, and chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International.-Habitat for Humanity:Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who served as honorary chair of Habitat's succession planning task force, said, "Jonathan Reckford is a wonderful choice to...
|| || Political Science || CEO of Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat For Humanity International , generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" housing, a self-described "Christian housing ministry." The international...
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| William E. Thornton
William E. Thornton
William Edgar Thornton is a former NASA Astronaut. Thornton was born in Faison, North Carolina, and is married with two sons to the former Elizabeth Jennifer Fowler of Hertfordshire, England.-Education:...
||1952 / Grad.||Physics / Medicine ||Astronaut||
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| Amanda Watson
Miss North Carolina
The Miss North Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The competition has been held in Raleigh every year since 1978. Prior to that, it was held in various locales including Charlotte, Greensboro, Burlington,...
||2010 ||Music||Miss North Carolina
Miss North Carolina
The Miss North Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The competition has been held in Raleigh every year since 1978. Prior to that, it was held in various locales including Charlotte, Greensboro, Burlington,...
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