# List of University of North Texas alumni

The following is a list of notable people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.

## Athletics

* Steve Austin (known as Steve Williams while at UNT), wrestler
* Bill Bishop, NFL defensive tackle
* Bruce Chambers, former Texas Longhorns football assistant coach (1998–2014)
* Patrick Cobbs, NFL running back
* Jaelon Darden, NFL wide receiver
* Lance Dunbar, NFL running back
* Tony Elliott, NFL nose tackle
* Toby Gowin, NFL punter
* "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL Hall of Famer, NFL defensive tackle and head coach
* Cedric Hardman, NFL football defensive end; 1970 first round draft pick, San Francisco 49ers
* Abner Haynes, AFL and NFL running back
* Jim Hess, former college coach and NFL scout
* Don January, PGA Senior Tour golfer
* Chris Jones (born 1993), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Brad Kassell, NFL Defensive Player
* Carl "Spider" Lockhart, NFL defensive back
* Billy Maxwell, PGA Senior Tour golfer
* Tony Mitchell, NBA forward
* Umar Muhammad, football player
* Jamize Olawale, NFL fullback
* Zach Orr, NFL linebacker
* Carlos Ortiz, PGA Tour golfer
* Willie Parker, NFL offensive lineman
* Johnny Quinn, USA Olympic Bobsled
* Ray Renfro, NFL wide receiver
* Hurles Scales, NFL defensive back
* Kal Segrist, MLB second baseman and Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball head coach (1968–83)
* Ron Shanklin, NFL receiver and All-Pro player
* Charlie Shepard, all-star CFL running back
* J.T. Smith, NFL wide receiver
* Dennis Swilley, NFL offensive lineman
* Tra Telligman, UFC fighter
* Harry Vines, wheelchair basketball pioneer
* David Von Erich (real name David Adkisson), deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas," brother of Kevin Von Erich
* Kevin Von Erich (real name Kevin Adkisson), professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich
* Brian Waters, NFL offensive lineman
* Jeff Wilson, NFL running back

## Arts and media

* Lawrence B. Jones, journalist, news anchor, news reporter, investigative reporter, and Fox News media personality
* Theodore Albrecht, musicologist
* Larry Austin, composer
* Joe Don Baker, film actor, Charley Varrick, Walking Tall, Cape Fear, three James Bond films
* Dave Barnett, sports announcer
* William Basinski, musician
* Bob Belden, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winning composer
* Brian Biggs, children's book illustrator
* Gregg Bissonette, jazz and rock drummer
* Sally Blakemore, paper engineer and pop-up book creator
* Joan Blondell, Oscar-nominated film and television actress, Desk Set, Nightmare Alley, The Cincinnati Kid, Grease
* Craig Bohmler, composer
* Zach Bolton, voice actor
* Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality
* Billy Lee Brammer, novelist and journalist
* Justin Briner, voice actor
* Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band
* Karen Mixon Cook, disc jockey
* Eden Brent, blues pianist and vocalist
* Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books; Web publisher; member of RSS Advisory Board
* Matt Chamberlain, session drummer
* Thomas Haden Church, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning film and television actor, Sideways, Spider-Man 3, Broken Trail
* Jeff Coffin, jazz saxophonist of Dave Matthews band and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
* Joseph Patrick Cranshaw, film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie Old School
* Ivan Davis, classical concert pianist
* Aaron Dismuke, voice actor
* Miranda Dodson, Christian folk musician
* Bob Dorough, bebop and jazz pianist/vocalist of Schoolhouse Rock songs
* George Dunham, radio talk-show host and former "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"
* Matthew Earnest, theatre director
* Greg Edmonson, musician
* Alyssa Edwards, drag performer, choreographer, and businessperson
* Todd and Toby Pipes, one hit wonders from the 1990s (Deep Blue Something)
* Rob Erdle, watercolorist, regents' professor
* Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist
* Kelli Finglass Director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, television personality, television producer
* Steve Flanigan Film Producer, Director and DP.
* Mark Followill, sports announcer
* O'Neil Ford, architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
* Steven Fromholz, singer-songwriter, 2007 Poet Laureate of Texas
* Bobby Fuller, rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"
* Phyllis George, Miss America 1971; First Lady of Kentucky, 1979–83; TV personality; broadcaster for The NFL Today
* Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
* James Hampton, actor and director
* Gerald Harvey Jones, a.k.a. G. Harvey, (1933–2017), painter.
* Kyle Hebert, voice actor
* Don Henley, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and drummer, solo and with The Eagles
* Sara Hickman, folk singer/songwriter
* Ray Wylie Hubbard, country music singer
* Kyle Irion, blogger and fiction author
* Elliott Johnson, artist and designer
* Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter
* George Keaton, Jr., historian
* Jeffrey L. Kimball, cinematographer of Top Gun
* Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP
* Sue Ane Langdon, actress
* Michael Lark, comic book artist
* Lecrae, Christian hip-hop artist, actor, co-founder of Reach Records
* T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge
* Tom "Bones" Malone, trombonist; played with Saturday Night Live and Late Show with David Letterman house bands, and The Blues Brothers
* "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with Saturday Night Live house band and The Blues Brothers
* Jim Marrs, conspiracy theorist and author of Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy (the basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK)
* Lyle Mays, composer and keyboardist with Pat Metheny Group
* Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist
* Eli McDonald, artist
* Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won Pulitzer Prize for novel Lonesome Dove and Academy Award for screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
* Melissa McMillan, vocalist & multi-instrumentalist (Hozier, The Killers)
* Meat Loaf, rock singer and film actor
* Bill Mercer, sports and professional wrestling announcer
* Takesha Meshé Kizart, operatic soprano
* Jim Metcalf, news reporter and Peabody Award recipient
* R. K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre
* Lawrence Montaigne, actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman
* Latonia Moore, operatic soprano
* Maren Morris, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter
* Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator
* Jack Nance, stage, TV and film actor, notable for his works with director David Lynch including Eraserhead, Twin Peaks
* Trina Nishimura, voice actor
* Warren Carl Norwood, author of science-fiction novels
* Roy Orbison, rock singer-songwriter in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
* Brina Palencia, voice actor
* Alan Palomo, frontman for Neon Indian
* Jessie Pavelka, television star and model
* Mark Phillips, founding member and face of YouTube group RDCWorld
* Craig Pilo (born 1972), drummer
* David Portillo, operatic tenor
* Emily Pulley, operatic soprano who has performed in more than 150 operas
* Patricia Racette, operatic soprano
* Leila Rahimi, sports reporter and anchor
* Anne Rice, author, Interview with the Vampire
* Michelle Rojas, voice actor
* Jim Rotondi, jazz trumpeter, educator and conductor
* Melissa Rycroft, dancer and television personality
* Philece Sampler, film, television, and voice actor
* Christopher Sabat, voice actor
* Sonny Strait, voice actor and comic book artist
* Andrew Savage, musician and artist
* Emilia Schatz, video game designer at Naughty Dog
* Ann Sheridan, film actress, star of Dodge City, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Nora Prentiss
* Damin Spritzer, organist and academic
* Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author
* Alexis Tipton, voice actor
* Darren Trumeter, member of The Whitest Kids U' Know comedy troupe
* Paul Varghese, stand-up comedian, appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing
* Jennifer Vasquez, Big Brother season 6 contestant; actor
* Craig Way, sports announcer
* Peter Weller, film actor and star of RoboCop
* Noble Willingham, television and film actor, Walker, Texas Ranger, Good Morning, Vietnam, City Slickers
* Kaela Sinclair, musician, keyboardist and vocalist for M83
* Shara Worden, musician, performs under the name My Brightest Diamond
* Xiaoze Xie, artist
* Denny Thomas, Emmy-winning editor

## Science and education

* W. J. Adkins, B.A. 1930 (1907–1965), founding president of Laredo Community College
* Jeff M. Allen, information scientist
* Dee Brock (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), senior vice president of educational programming at PBS
* Elise F. Harmon, B.S. (1909–1985), physicist, chemist, and major contributor to the miniaturization of computers
* Anita Jose, Ph.D, business strategist, essayist, and professor at Hood College
* John E. King, PhD, president of the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University); president of the University of Wyoming, 1966-1967
* Juan L. Maldonado (B.A. 1972, Master of Education 1975) has been the president of Laredo Community College since 2007.
* Gary S. Metcalf (1957), organizational theorist and management consultant
* Charles Mullins, cardiologist and former CEO, Parkland Hospital; administrator, University of Texas System
* Lorene Lane Rogers, Ph.D. (1914–2009), president of The University of Texas, first woman president of a major public university
* Nicola Scafetta, Ph.D, physicist

## Government and public service

* Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs since 29 April 2015. He was the former ambassador to Washington, former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia.
* Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at UNT
* Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927–1929); Attorney General of Texas (1929–1930); state court judge (1935–1937); chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937–1943)
* Michael C. Burgess, current U.S. representative for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
* Konni Burton, Texas State Senator as of 2015
* Jack Cox, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; Houston oilfield equipment industrialist
* Tony Goolsby (Class of 1961), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County from 1989 to 2009
* Warren G. Harding, former Texas State Treasurer (1977–1983) and Dallas County Treasurer (1950–1977); former President of North Texas State University.
* Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
* Opal Lee, activist who championed Juneteenth becoming a U.S. Federal holiday
* Joseph L. Lengyel, General, U.S. Air Force; Chief, National Guard Bureau
* Clint Lorance (born 1984), Army officer convicted of second-degree murder for battlefield deaths; pardoned
* Diane Patrick (Class of 1969 and 1999, M.A. and Ph.D.), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; former faculty member in education
* Ray Roberts, former Congressman from Denton; namesake of nearby Lake Ray Roberts
* Corry Schiermeyer, former United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications (acting) (2006–2007), Associate EPA Administrator for Public Affairs (2019-2020)
* Gwyn Shea, former Texas secretary of state (2002–2003) and a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983–1993) from Irving; UNT regent since 2007
* Drew Springer, Jr., state representative from District 68 in North Texas and the eastern South Plains
* Barbara Staff, co-chairman of the 1976 Texas Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign

## Pageantry

* R'Bonney Gabriel, first Asian-American Miss Texas USA, winner of Miss USA 2022 and Miss Universe 2022