# List of Pi Kappa Phi members

The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity has initiated over 100,000 members since it was founded in 1904. Following is a list of notable Pi Kappa Phi initiates, are many notable alumni that have been involved in politics, business, athletics, science, and entertainment.

## Business

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Gary Parr | Kappa | Vice Chairman of Lazard Serves on Board of Directors of New York Philharmonic Awarded distinguished alumnus award from the University of North Carolina Established the Parr Center for ethics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Serves on the Board of the Kenan-Flagler Business School |
| Joe Forehand | Alpha Iota | Former Chairman and CEO of the global management consulting firm Accenture |
| Ben Hill Griffin | Alpha Epsilon | Citrus business magnate and founder of Ben Hill Griffin Inc. Ranked 261st in the Forbes 400 in 1989 (the year before his death) Served in the Florida Senate for four years Served in the Florida House of Representatives for eight years Former benefactor of the University of Florida |

## Arts and entertainment

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| George Fisher | unknown | Lead singer of American death metal band Cannibal Corpse |
| Randy Owen | Delta Epsilon | Lead singer of Grammy Award-winning American country band Alabama 73 million record sales worldwide Ranks 29th in U.S. album sales according to RIAA |
| Trevor Penick | Zeta Rho | Former member of American pop group O-Town Pop singer and performer |
| Ryan Crow | Eta Sigma | Non-Scripted Television Show Producer |
| Nick Palance | Beta Alpha | Opera Singer |
| Jim Samples | Beta | Former Senior Vice President of TNT Latin America Former Senior Vice President of Cartoon Network Latin America Former General Manager of Cartoon Network Former President of HGTV |
| Jimmy Tatro | Beta Theta | Actor and YouTube star |
| Ovi Kabir | Alpha Sigma | Season 21 contestant on Big Brother |
| Stavros Halkias | Eta Phi | Stand-up comedian and podcaster Former co-host of the podcast Cum Town |

## Government
### Legislative

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Howard Baker | Alpha Sigma | Former Senate Majority Leader Former senator from Tennessee Former White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Founder of international law firm Baker Donelson, the largest law firm in the state of Tennessee and the 78th largest law firm in the United States |
| Toby Barker | Theta Alpha | Current Mayor of Hattiesburg Former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives |
| Phil Bryant | Theta Alpha | 63rd Governor of Mississippi 31st Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi Former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives 40th State Auditor of Mississippi |
| Carroll Campbell | Sigma | 112th Governor of South Carolina Former member of the United States House of Representatives Former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives Former member of the South Carolina Senate Former President and CEO of American Council of Life Insurers |
| Howard Coble | Epsilon Iota | Member of the United States House of Representatives Former North Carolina Secretary of Revenue |
| Philip Crane | Alpha Iota | Former member of the United States House of Representatives for 36 years |
| James Edwards | Alpha | 110th Governor of South Carolina Former Secretary of Energy under President Reagan Former member of the South Carolina Senate Former president of the Medical University of South Carolina |
| Henry H. Fowler | Xi | Former Secretary of the Treasury Former member of the War Production Board Former member of the National Security Council |
| Lindsey Graham | Alpha (Alumni Initiate) | United States Senator of South Carolina Former member of the United States House of Representatives Former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives |
| George M. Grant | Omicron | Former member of the United States House of Representatives |
| Syd Herlong | Alpha Epsilon | Former member of the United States House of Representatives |
| Brandt Hershman | Omega | 2010 candidate for United States House of Representatives Member of Indiana Senate, Republican Majority Floor Leader |
| Ernest Hollings | Alpha | Former member of the United States Senate 106th Governor of South Carolina Former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Former chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget Former chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation |
| Olin D. Johnston | Zeta | 98th Governor of South Carolina Former member of the United States Senate Former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives |
| Dan K. Moore* | Kappa | 66th Governor of North Carolina Former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives |
| Ollie Wilson Nabors | Omicron | Former member of the Alabama State Senate. |
| Gaylord Nelson | Gamma Nu | Former member of the United States Senate 35th Governor of Wisconsin Former member of the Wisconsin State Senate Founded Earth Day in 1970 Recipient of the 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom for his environmental work |
| James E. Rzepkowski | Eta Epsilon | Former Maryland Delegate |
| Mac Schneider | Zeta Gamma | Member of the North Dakota Senate |
| Mark Singel | Alpha Mu | Former Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Former Acting Governor of Pennsylvania |
| Wayne Stenehjem | Zeta Gamma | Attorney General of North Dakota Former member of the North Dakota Senate Former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives |
| Pat Swindall | Lambda | Former member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia |
| George Bell Timmerman, Jr.* | Sigma | 105th Governor of South Carolina Former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina |
| Wayne Waddell | Beta Omicron | Former Louisiana State Representative |
| George Wallace Jr. | Omicron | Former State Treasurer of Alabama Former member of the Alabama Public Service Commission |
| Charles T. (Lee) Myers | Beta Phi | Mayor of Matthews, NC |
| Michael D. Unes | Epsilon Mu | Illinois House of Representatives Former East Peoria City Commissioner |

### Judicial

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Charles Eaton | Omicron | Judge Georgia Superior Court and former Chairman Georgia Public Service Commission |
| Dan K. Moore* | Kappa | Former justice of the North Carolina Superior Court and North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Benjamin F. Overton | Alpha Epsilon | Former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court |
| Alan Sundberg | Beta Eta | Former Justice of the Florida Supreme Court |
| James Clinton Turk | Xi | Former Senior United States District Judge |
| George Bell Timmerman, Jr.* | Sigma | Former judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of South Carolina |

### Military

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Thomas L. Carter | Gamma Delta | Retired Major General, United States Air Force Former Military Attache to President Ronald Reagan |
| Adrian Cronauer | Eta Epsilon | Voice Behind Good Morning Vietnam |
| Rufus G. Herring | Epsilon | Retired Lieutenant Commander, United States Naval Reserve Recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry and intrepidity in action in the preinvasion attack on Iwo Jima |
| Hector Andres Negroni* | Alpha Upsilon | Retired Colonel United States Air Force First Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy |
| John J. Yeosock* | Alpha Mu | Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Army |
| Ronald J. Zlatoper* | Alpha Tau | Retired Admiral, U.S. Navy former Commander of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) |
| Gary H. Wilfong | Beta Phi | Brigadier General Assistant Adjutant General Commander of the North Carolina Air National Guard |

## Higher education and non-profit

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Dr. Rhett Brown | Eta Mu | President, Wingate University |
| George C. Griffin | Iota | Former Dean of Students, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Brooks Keel | Gamma Psi | President, Augusta University |
| Dale Kinkade | Alpha Delta | Llinguist and Specialist in Salishan languages |
| Dr. Jonathan Koh | Omicron | President, Shelton State Community College |
| John B. Means | Upsilon | Executive Director Emeritus, National Assn. of Self-Instructional Language Programs |

## Journalism

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Rich Eisen | Alpha Kappa | Lead Host of The NFL Network Host of NFL GameDay Morning Former ESPN Anchor American television journalist |
| David Goodnow | Alpha Psi | Former CNN Headline News Anchor |
| Malcolm Johnson | Alpha Alpha | Pulitzer Prize winner Investigative Journalist |
| Rick Sanchez | Theta Delta | Television and Radio Journalist with WSVN-TV Miami and Univision Radio, formerly of CNN |

## Literature

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Thomas Wolfe | Kappa | Author Look Homeward, Angel (1929) |

## Religion

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Keith L. Ackerman | Delta Psi | Eighth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy |

## Sciences

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Roger Crouch | Gamma Beta | Astronaut |
| Ed Lu | Psi | Astronaut Physicist |
| Russell Conwell Newhouse | Alpha Nu | Inventor Altimeter |
| Charles H. Townes | Delta | Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| Dean Ho | Eta Sigma | Professor at Northwestern University Nanotechnology researcher |

## Sports

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Wally Butts | Alpha Alpha | College Football Coach Former head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs |
| Robert Graziano | Delta Rho | Baseball Executive Former President/CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Jim Edmonds | Zeta Rho | All-Star Outfielder Retired in 2011 |
| Tommy Lasorda | Member-at-Large | Olympic Gold Medal-winning coach Former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers Former Slim Fast Spokesman |
| Joe Sewell | Omicron | Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Former Major League Baseball Infielder |
| Fred Beretta | Omega | All American (1940) Purdue and Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee |
| Elmer Burnham | Omega | Ex-Purdue Football Head Coach (1942-1943) Ex-University of Rochester Head Coach (1944-1960) |
| Gene Selawski | Omega | First Team All-America tackle (1958) LA Rams (1959), Cleveland Browns (1960), and San Diego Chargers (1961) |
| Darrel "Pete" Brewster | Omega | 2 Time NFL Pro Bowler (1955,1956) Professional Football Player 1952-1960 |
| Matt Arroyo | Beta Lambda | Professional mixed martial artist |
| Chris Moneymaker | Alpha Sigma | 2003 Winner of the World Series of Poker Professional Poker Player |
| Pat Rummerfield | Theta Iota | World's first fully recovered quadriplegic Land speed world record holder |