List of Sewanee: The University of the South people
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This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.
Literature
- Franklin Burroughs, author
- H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
- Thomas Lakeman, author
- Andrew Nelson Lytle, author and former editor, Sewanee Review
- Aaron McCollough, poet
- Speer Morgan, novelist, short story writer and editor
- William Alexander Percy, poet and memoirist
- Wyatt Prunty, poet and founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, writer, Southern editor of The Paris Review, author of Pulphead
- Allen Tate, poet, critic, assistant editor of The Sewanee Review
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian, author
Music
- Radney Foster, singer/songwriter
- Jonathan Meiburg, musician[1]
- Tupper Saussy, composer, musician
- Amanda Shires, singer/songwriter, violin player[2]
Photography
- Stephen Alvarez, photojournalist and National Geographic photographer
Television and film
- Julian Adams, film producer, writer, and actor
- Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
- Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor, Hell on Wheels
- John Swasey, voice actor
- Jean Yarbrough, film and television director
Athletics
- Walter Barrett
- Chigger Browne
- Eric Cheape
- Wild Bill Claiborne
- Rupert Colmore
- Harris G. Cope
- Charlie Dexter, Major League Baseball player
- Frank Faulkinberry
- Jenks Gillem
- Delmas Gooch
- Joe B. Hall, University of Kentucky head basketball coach
- Orin Helvey
- Frank Juhan
- Aubrey Lanier
- Lawrence Markley
- Henry D. Phillips
- Kyle Rote Jr., soccer player
- Phil Savage, former Senior VP and General Manager, Cleveland Browns
- John Scarbrough
- Henry Seibels, captain of 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
- John Shoop, football coach
- Ormond Simkins
- Lee Tolley
- Silas Williams
- Warbler Wilson
- Eben Wortham, All-Southern fullback in 1917
Education
- Douglass Adair, historian and editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
- Alan P. Bell, psychologist at the Kinsey Institute
- Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
- John V. Fleming, professor emeritus at Princeton University
- Rayid Ghani, professor of Machine Learning and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and chief scientist, Obama for America 2012 Campaign
- W. Cabell Greet (1901–1972), philologist and McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College
- Thomas N.E. Greville (1910–1998), mathematician and professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961), historian, archivist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jeff McMahan, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Charles H. McNutt, archaeologist and professor at Memphis State University
- Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
- Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Eric Woodfin Naylor (1936–2019), Hispanist and translator of el Libro de buen amor
- Samuel F. Pickering Jr., professor of English at the University of Connecticut; inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
- Douglas Porch, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
- S. Lynne Stokes, statistician and professor at Southern Methodist University
- Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian and professor at the University of Florida and Case Western University
Journalism
- Clarence Faulk, publisher of Ruston Daily Leader; owner of radio station KRUS; diversified businessman in Ruston, Louisiana
- Ward Greene (1892–1956), journalist, playwright and editor
- Smith Hempstone, journalist and U.S. ambassador to Kenya
- Jack Hitt, author and contributing editor of New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and This American Life
- Roger Hodge, deputy editor of The Intercept, former editor of Harper's Magazine and The Oxford American
- Jon Meacham, Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, former editor-in-chief of Newsweek; winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography
Law
- Phelan Beale, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
- Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 2004–2013
- Robert L. Brown, associate justice, Arkansas Supreme Court
- Alexander Campbell King, solicitor general of the United States and judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Benjamin Franklin Cameron (1890–1964), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
- Hart T. Mankin, general counsel of the Navy 1971–1973, and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims 1990–1996
- Travis Randall McDonough, United States district judge, Eastern District of Tennessee
- Patrick Henry Nelson II (1856–1914), South Carolina Fifth Circuit solicitor; president of the South Carolina Bar (1911–1912); member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1885–1887)
- David C. Norton, United States district judge, District of South Carolina
- Pride Tomlinson (1890–1967), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
Military
- Archibald Butt (1865–1912), journalist, military advisor to the president
- William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), Surgeon General of the US Army
- Cary T. Grayson (1878–1938), naval surgeon, rear admiral, chairman of the American Red Cross
- Frank Kelso (1933–2013), admiral, USN, chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
- Marcel Lettre, under secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 2015–2017
- Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
- Bill Studeman, admiral, U.S. Navy, director of Naval Intelligence, director of the National Security Agency
Business
- O. B. Grayson Hall Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Regions Financial Corporation
- Robert Ivy, FAIA, chief executive officer of the American Institute of Architects[3]
- David Tallichet, restaurateur and creator of the themed restaurant
- Merry Ann Thompson Wright, CEO of the American Lung Association of Central New York, 42nd president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- Rick Woodward, president of Woodward Iron Company, owner Birmingham Barons[4]
