List of Kappa Alpha Order members

• Robert Crandall (Alpha Zeta) – former president, chairman and CEO of American Airlines
• Ken May (Gamma Gamma) – CEO of FedEx and Kinko's
• Jerry Richardson (Delta) – former Carolina Panthers owner and founder
• George W. Woodruff (Alpha Sigma) – director of the Coca-Cola Company, 1936–1985
• Robert W. Woodruff (Epsilon) – president of the Coca-Cola Company, 1926–1954
• Jeffery Hildebrand (Omicron) – founder, chairman, and CEO Hilcorp Energy Company
• John Fishwick (Beta Rho) – American railroad executive and chief executive of Norfolk and Western Railway
• Ely Callaway Jr. (Epsilon) – American entrepreneur, textiles executive, winemaker and vintner and golf club manufacturer, as the founder of Callaway Golf

• William James Barrow (Zeta) – chemist and paper conservator
• Andrew Nelson Lytle (Chi) – novelist, dramatist, essayist, professor of literature at the University of Florida and the University of the South
• John B. Watson (Iota) – psychologist, founder of behaviorism
• Sam S. Walker (Beta Commission) – U.S. Army general, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute.

• Michael Beck (Alpha Mu) – actor
• Pat Boone (Gamma Lambda) – actor and recording artist
• Marty Brennaman (Zeta) – announcer for the Cincinnati Reds
• Zac Brown (Zeta Kappa) – lead vocalist with the multiple Grammy-winning country group the Zac Brown Band
• Michael Brun (Sigma) – DJ and producer
• Thomas Dixon, Jr. (Tau) – author, playwright
• Bill Engvall (Xi) – actor and comedian
• Ben Ferguson (Alpha Upsilon) – conservative radio talk show host, author
• Ryan Fournier (Zeta Psi) - American political commentator
• John Temple Graves – newspaper editor^[1]
• George Grizzard (Upsilon) – actor, won Tony Award in 1996
• Taylor Hackford (Beta Sigma) – film director, won Oscar in 1979
• George Hamilton IV (Upsilon) – country music singer
• Rob Huebel (Delta Omicron) – comedian and actor
• Adam Johnson (Epsilon Omega)^{[citation needed]} – writer, 2013 fiction Pulitzer Prize
• William Joyce (Beta Lambda) – author, artist, illustrator with Disney/Pixar and others
• Bill Lawrence (Alpha Zeta) – television writer, producer, and director
• Delbert Mann (Chi) – film director, won an Oscar and Palme d'Or in 1955
• Frank McCarthy (Beta) – movie producer, won an Oscar in 1970
• Page McConnell (Beta Lambda) – member of music groups Phish and Vida Blue
• Richard Moll (Alpha Xi) – actor, played "Bull Shannon" on Night Court
• Rich O'Toole (Epsilon Delta) – country music singer
• Anthony Perkins (Alpha Psi) – prolific actor, played Norman Bates in Psycho
• Mark Povinelli (Epsilon Lambda) – actor
• Charlie Rose (Alpha Phi) – talk show host
• Randolph Scott (Alpha Sigma) – actor
• Ned Vaughn (Phi) – actor
• Mark L. Walberg (Delta Tau) – television host
• Douglass Wallop (Beta Kappa) – writer, won Tony Award in 1956

• Adm. Richard E. Byrd (Beta) – US Navy, Antarctic explorer; Medal of Honor recipient
• Edgar Erskine Hume (Omega) - American physician, highly decorated Major General in the U.S. Army medical corps, Founder Delta Omega
• Whitfield Jack (Alpha Iota) – United States Army officer in World War II; major general of United States Army Reserve, attorney in Shreveport (Louisiana)
• Gen. George S. Patton (Beta) – former commander, 3rd US. Army
• Gen. J. H. Binford Peay III (Beta) – former commander, 101st Airborne Division, US CENTCOM; Superintendent of VMI
• Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. (Beta) – former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• Richard Truly (Alpha Sigma) – vice admiral, US Navy; astronaut; former director of NASA
• Gen. Sam S. Walker (Beta Commission) – army officer, superintendent of VMI.

• John Abercrombie - US Congressman from Alabama
• Thurman Adams (Beta Epsilon) – former senator and President Pro Tempore of state senate (Delaware)
• Robert Aderholt (Phi) – US Congressman from Alabama
• Carl Albert (Beta Eta) – former US Representative for Oklahoma; Speaker of the House, 1971–1977
• Paul Atkins (Delta) – former commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Roger Bedford, Jr. (Alpha Beta) – state senator, Alabama
• Roy Blunt (Alpha Eta) – US Congressman and senator from Missouri
• J. Caleb Boggs (Beta Epsilon) – former governor and US Senator from Delaware
• Rick Boucher (Beta Rho) – US Congressman from Virginia
• Charles Boustany (Gamma Phi) – US Congressman from Louisiana
• Thomas Carmody (Alpha Gamma) -

state representative from Louisiana

• William Clements (Beta Lambda) – former governor of Texas
• Clark M. Clifford (Beta Theta) – former counsel to US presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy; former secretary of defense
• Larry Combest (Gamma Chi) – US Congressman from Texas
• Zel M. Fischer (Alpha Delta) – judge, Missouri Supreme Court
• Don Fowler (Delta) – former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Bart Gordon (Delta Lambda) – US Congressman from Tennessee
• Henry Hager (Tau) – husband of Jenna Bush, daughter of US President George W. Bush
• William Pike Hall Sr. (Alpha Iota) – member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport, 1924–1932
• Stumpy Harris – (Beta Zeta) Attorney, major donor and supporter of the Florida Gators.
• Robert W. Hemphill (Rho) – former US Congressman from South Carolina, 1957–1964; Federal Judge for South Carolina, 1965–1980
• George Hooks (Nu) – senator of Georgia
• J. Edgar Hoover (Alpha Nu) – former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Richard Hudson (Epsilon Xi) – US Congressman from North Carolina
• Joe Kennedy III (Alpha Pi) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 4th district
• Bill Lee (Nu) – Governor of Tennessee
• Buddy MacKay (Beta Zeta) – former governor, lieutenant governor, and US Representative from Florida
• James MacKay (Epsilon) – senator
• GA George C. Marshall (Beta) – former US Secretary of State; former US Secretary of Defense; former US Army Chief of Staff' namesake of the Marshall Plan; Nobel Peace Prize recipient; graduate of the Virginia Military Institute
• Henry McMaster (Rho) – Governor of South Carolina
• Daniel Mongiardo (Alpha Theta) – Lt. Governor of Kentucky, 2007–2011
• G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery (Beta Tau) – former US Congressman, author of the GI Bill of Rights
• Alex Murdaugh (Rho) – Former attorney, convicted of capital murder in March 2023.
• Bill Owens (Delta Kappa) – former governor of Colorado
• Austin Peay (Omega) – former governor of Tennessee
• Claude Pepper (Alpha Omega) – former US Congressman from Florida; former US Senator from Florida
• Melvin Purvis (Rho) – FBI; headed the Division of Investigation Offices in Birmingham, Alabama; led successful manhunts for Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger
• Dean Rusk (Sigma) – former US Secretary of State
• Ellison D. Smith (Delta/Rho) – US Senator, South Carolina
• Floyd Spence (Rho) – US Congressman from South Carolina
• Earl Ray Tomblin (Alpha Rho) – Governor of West Virginia
• Steve Womack (Epsilon Zeta) – US Congressman from Arkansas