# List of Sewanee: The University of the South people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.

## Arts
### 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
* Tupper Saussy, composer, musician
* Amanda Shires, singer/songwriter, violin player

### 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
* David Tallichet, restaurateur and creator of the themed restaurant
* Rick Woodward, president Woodward Iron Company, owner Birmingham Barons
* Merry Ann Thompson Wright, CEO of the American Lung Association of Central New York and 42nd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution

## Politics and government

* Robert Stanley Adams (1895–1943), member of the Florida State Senate
* Ellis Arnall, governor of Georgia
* Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
* David Cadman, Vancouver City Councillor
* Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington, 1946–1953
* William S. Cogswell Jr., member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
* Carl Copeland Cundiff, United States Ambassador to Niger
* Steven Dickerson, Republican member of the Tennessee Senate, 2013–2020
* Tucker Eskew, Republican political consultant
* Kirkman Finlay Jr., mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, 1978–1986
* Robert C. Frasure, first United States Ambassador to Estonia after regaining independence from the Soviet Union
* Robert E. Gribbin, 3rd, United States Ambassador to Rwanda, 1996–1999, and the Central African Republic, 1993–1995
* William Pike Hall Sr., state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, Louisiana, 1924–1932; Shreveport attorney
* Clarke Hogan, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2002–2010
* Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1954–1956
* John Jay Hooker (1930–2016), attorney, political gadfly, candidate for Tennessee governor
* Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee, 1911–1917
* Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist
* LeRoy Percy, attorney, planter, and politician in Mississippi; elected by the state legislature to the US Senate and served 1910–1913
* Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada
* Albert J. Pullen, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
* Simon Pierre Robineau, member of the Florida House of Representatives
* Steve Schale, State Director for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign in Florida
* Armistead I. Selden Jr., Democratic congressman from Alabama
* Phil Smith (1931–2020), member of the Alabama House of Representatives
* Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-89
* Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* John Sharp Williams (1854–1932), Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Mississippi

## Religion

* J. Neil Alexander, bishop of Atlanta and dean of the School of Theology of The University of the South
* John Maury Allin, 23rd presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1974–1985
* Harry Brown Bainbridge III, Bishop of Idaho, President of Province VIII, Chair of Episcopal Relief & Development
* Allen L. Bartlett, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1987–1998
* Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
* G.P. Mellick Belshaw (1928–2020), bishop of New Jersey
* Mark Bourlakas, bishop of Southwestern Virginia
* Theodore DuBose Bratton, Bishop of the Episcopal Church and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans
* Edmond Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
* William G. Burrill, bishop of Rochester
* Charles Judson Child Jr., bishop of Atlanta
* Thomas N. Carruthers (1900–1960), bishop of South Carolina
* William Stirling Claiborne (1872–1933), priest
* Clarence Alfred Cole (1909–1963), bishop of Upper South Carolina
* Glenda S. Curry, bishop of Alabama
* Carl P. Daw Jr., executive director of the Hymn Society
* Alex D. Dickson, bishop of West Tennessee
* William Porcher DuBose, dean and priest
* James Duncan, bishop of Southeast Florida
* Chip Edgar (born 1964), bishop of South Carolina
* Hunley Elebash (1923–1993), bishop of East Carolina
* Thomas C. Ely, bishop of Vermont, 2001–2019
* Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
* Robert F. Gibson Jr., bishop of Virginia, 1961–1974
* Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
* Duncan M. Gray Jr. (1926–2016), bishop of Mississippi
* Marion J. Hatchett, liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
* John E. Hines, 22nd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1965–1974
* George Nelson Hunt, III, bishop of Rhode Island
* T. J. Johnston (born 1956), bishop in the Anglican Mission in America
* Edwin M. Leidel Jr., bishop of Eau Claire
* Clark Lowenfield (born 1957), bishop of the Western Gulf Coast
* Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, bishop of Vermont, the first female Episcopal priest elected to head a diocese
* C. Brinkley Morton, bishop of San Diego
* Alfred C. Marble Jr. (1936–2017), bishop of Mississippi
* Henry N. Parsley, bishop of Alabama, chancellor of The University of the South
* Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
* Charles Todd Quintard, bishop of Tennessee
* Gretchen Rehberg, bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Spokane
* George Lazenby Reynolds (1927–1991), bishop of Tennessee
* Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire
* Harry W. Shipps, bishop of Georgia
* Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest
* Hudson Stuck, Anglican Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
* Eugene Sutton, bishop of Maryland
* G. Porter Taylor, bishop of Western North Carolina
* George Townshend (1876–1957), Archdeacon of Clonfert, Canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Hand of the Cause of the Bahá’í Faith
* Reginald Heber Weller (1857–1935), Episcopal priest and bishop active in the ecumenical movement
* Royden Yerkes, professor of theology 1935–1947