# List of New College of Florida alumni

| Alumni | Notability |
| Anita L. Allen | Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| David Allen | Writer and productivity consultant, developed the "Getting Things Done" method of time management |
| Robert D. Atkinson | Author and founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation |
| Esther Barazzone | President of Chatham University |
| Robert Bilott | American environmental attorney known for lawsuits against DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs from West Virginia and the subject of the 2019 movie Dark Waters |
| Adrianne Black | Former white supremacist leader who rejected her family's ideology in favor of tolerance, subject of Eli Saslow's 2018 book Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist |
| Bruce Beresford-Redman | Reality TV producer, convicted murderer |
| Richard Canary | Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan |
| Paul Cebar | Singer-songwriter |
| John Cranor III | CEO of KFC, 1989–1994 |
| Michael DeMaria | Clinical psychologist, author, and musician |
| José Díaz-Balart | Emmy Award-winning journalist, Telemundo and NBC national news anchor |
| Lincoln Díaz-Balart | Former United States Congressman |
| Rick Doblin | President and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies |
| The Dollyrots | Co-founded by Kelly Ogden (lead vocals and bassist) and Luis Cabezas (guitarist) |
| William C. Dudley | President, New York Federal Reserve Bank |
| Stephen Duprey | Prominent New Hampshire businessman and politician; member of the Republican National Committee; four-term chair of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee; elected in 1972 at age 19 to the New Hampshire House of Representatives as the youngest state representative in the United States |
| Margee Ensign | President, Dickinson College; Former president, American University of Nigeria; awarded the African Leadership Award in Educational Excellence by African Leadership Magazine (2011) |
| Earth and Fire Erowid | Founders, Erowid; lecturers on psychedelics and safety; recipients of the Drug Policy Alliance's Dr. Andrew Weil Award for Achievement in the Field of Drug Education (2011) |
| Carol Flint | Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer, ER, The West Wing |
| X González | Anti-gun violence activist |
| Jennifer Granick | Attorney; Director of Civil Liberties, Stanford Center for Internet and Society; former Civil Liberties Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| Elaine Hall | Emmy Award winner, founder and director of The Miracle Project |
| Paul K. Hansma | Presidential scholar in physics, namesake of the Paul Hansma Research Group at the Department of Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| Aaron Hillegass | Author, programmer, educator, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, investor. In 2014, Forbes named him one of the top 10 amateur stock pickers in America |
| Rowan Jacobsen | Science and food author; founder of Oysterater.com; winner of the James Beard Award; Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, McGraw Center for Business Journalism fellow, Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT |
| Jaymay | Singer-songwriter based in New York City and London |
| Joel Judd | Attorney; former member of the Colorado House of Representatives |
| Victoria Kolakowski | First openly transgender person to serve as a trial court judge of general jurisdiction in the United States |
| Sung-Yoon Lee | North Korea scholar, U.S. government advisor |
| Sondra London | True crime author of True Vampires, The Making of a Serial Killer, and Good Little Soldiers |
| Brian Lukacher | Art historian, professor of art history at Vassar College |
| Merlin Mann | Writer, editor, and podcaster |
| Melissa Cristina Márquez | Marine biologist, science communicator, author of Mother of Sharks and Wild Survival! |
| Sharon Matola | Biologist, environmentalist, founder and director of the Belize Zoo |
| Nancy McEldowney | Diplomat; Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; former director, Foreign Service Institute; former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria |
| Ramón Mujica Pinilla | Librarian Executive Director Peruvian National Library under three presidents; Historian; Anthropologist |
| Sharon Landesman Ramey | Behavioral scientist specializing in child development; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Jeanne Rosenberg | Screenwriter. Credits include The Black Stallion (film) and The Young Black Stallion |
| Nicholas Schaffner | Writer, rock & roll journalist, expert on The Beatles; died August 28, 1991 |
| Eric Schickler | Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Endowed Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley |
| David M. Smolin | Professor of Law at the Cumberland School of Law and director of Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics |
| William Thurston | Mathematician, 1982 winner of the Fields Medal; died August 21, 2012 |
| Josh Tickell | Biodiesel advocate; author; director of the documentary Fuel, which won the audience award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival |
| Steve Randy Waldman | Computer programmer, economics writer, and "Danish libertarian"; blogger at Interfluidity |
| Ira Wallace | Organic gardener, teacher and author. She manages Southern Exposure Seed Exchange |
| Jackie Wang | Academic and poet, finalist for 2021 National Book Award for Poetry and author of Carceral Capitalism (2018). |
| Mark Weiser | Former Chief Scientist at Xerox PARC Laboratories; founder of ubiquitous computing; died on April 27, 1999 |
| John Wilke | Investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal; died on May 1, 2009 |
| Sam Zamarripa | First Hispanic to serve in the Georgia state senate |