# List of Auburn High School people

This list of Auburn High School people includes graduates, former students, administrators, trustees, faculty, and staff of Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama. The list includes people affiliated with the school's predecessor institutions, the Auburn Female College (1843–1852, 1870–1885), the Auburn Masonic Female College (1852–1870), the Auburn Female Institute (1892–1908), and Lee County High School (1914–1956).
Auburn High School is the oldest public high school in Alabama, and the third-oldest operating secondary school in the United States south of Philadelphia. As of 2010, the school enrolls 1,309 students in technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs as well as joint enrollment with Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College.
The first graduation exercises of Auburn High School were held in the 1840s, awarding fewer than a dozen diplomas at each session. Today the school awards over three hundred diplomas a year and has graduated more than ten thousand students. This list organizes those associated with Auburn High School into rough professional areas and lists them in order of graduating class or years of affiliation with the school.

## Professional area
### Art, literature, and music

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| William Spratling | 1917 | Silversmith and artist; considered the "Father of Mexican Silver"; co-authored Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles with William Faulkner |
| Urbie Green | 1943 (attended) | Jazz trombonist |
| Rosemary Glyde | 1966 | Violist and composer; founder of the New York Viola Society |
| Allen Hinds | 1974 | Guitarist and jazz musician |
| Ted Vives | 1982 | Composer, trombonist, and director of the Los Alamos Community Winds |
| Brian Teasley | 1980s | Musician, Man or Astro-man?, Servotron, The Polyphonic Spree |
| Man or Astro-man? | 1980s | Surf punk band |
| Kate Higgins | 1987 | Voice actress, singer; English voice of Sakura Haruno in Naruto |
| Ace Atkins | 1989 | Author, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist |
| James Fukai | 1992 | Guitarist, Trust Company |
| Youssef Biaz | 2011 | Spoken word artist |

### Journalism

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| Tom Sellers | 1941 | Journalist, Columbus Ledger; won 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service |
| Mary Lou Foy | 1962 | Photojournalist, Picture Editor Washington Post; president of the National Press Photographers Association, 1992 |
| Vanessa Echols | 1979 | News anchor, WRDQ and WFTV, Orlando, Florida |

### Military

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability | Reference |
| Robert D. Knapp | 1916 | Aviation pioneer; US Air Force brigadier general | |
| John E. Pitts, Jr. | 1942 | US Army brigadier general; director International Staff, Inter-American Defense Board | |

### Politics and government

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| John William Jones | 1852–1856, Trustee | Congressman and physician; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1847–1849 |
| David Clopton | 1859–1870, Trustee | Politician and jurist; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1859–1861; member of the Confederate Congress, 1861–1865; associate justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, 1884–1892 |
| James F. Dowdell | 1859–1870, Trustee | Congressman and professor; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1853–1859; second president of Auburn University |
| James R. Dowdell | 1863–1864 | Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, 1909–1914 |
| George Paul Harrison, Jr. | 1869–1870, Trustee | Politician and lawyer; Confederate States Army colonel; member of the United States House of Representatives, 1894–1897 |
| William J. Samford | 1864 | Governor of Alabama, 1900–1901 |
| William H. Lamar | 1870s | Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Solicitor of the Post Office; censor of the US Mail under the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 |
| David Vann | 1944 | Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1975–1979 |
| George McMillan | 1962 | Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, 1979–1983 |
| Joe Turnham | 1977 | Chairman, Alabama Democratic Party |
| Ed Packard | 1986 | Politician; 2006 Democratic candidate for Alabama Secretary of State |
| Robert Gibbs | 1989 | 28th White House Press Secretary |

### Science, mathematics and technology

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| John M. Darby | 1855–1858, President; 1855–1862, Professor of Natural Science | Botanist; created the first comprehensive catalogue of flora for the Southern United States |
| I. T. Quinn | 1914–1915, Principal | Conservationist, game commissioner of Alabama and Virginia; a founder and first vice president of the National Wildlife Federation |
| Greg Kuperberg | 1981–1982 | Mathematician, University of California, Davis; author of video games Paratrooper, J-Bird, and PC-Man; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1998–2000 |
| William Chen | 1988 | Mathematician, quantitative analyst, Susquehanna International Group; winner in two 2006 World Series of Poker events |
| Eric Harshbarger | 1989 | Mathematician and LEGO artist |
| Mark Spencer | 1995 | Computer engineer; Chairman and CTO, Digium; creator of Asterisk PBX and original programmer of Pidgin instant messaging software |

### Social sciences

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| William J. Sasnett | 1859–1861, Trustee | Professor and minister; first president of Auburn University |
| Holland McTyeire | 1860–1870, Trustee | Minister; bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; founder of Vanderbilt University |
| William P. Harrison | 1861–1862, President | Theologian and author; Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives |
| Charles B. Glenn | 1880s | Educator; president National Education Association, 1937–1938 |
| Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. | 1888 | Academic; editor of the first anthology of Texas literature |
| Willie Dee Bowles | 1920s | Educator; historian of the women's suffrage movement |
| John E. Ivey, Jr. | 1936 | Sociologist, education researcher; pioneer in use of technology in education |

### Sports

| Name | Class year or years affiliated | Notability |
| Charlie Gibson | 1923, Head football coach | Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics |
| E. R. Moulton | 1924-25, Head football coach | College football player, educator |
| Joe Beckwith | 1973 | Major League Baseball pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers (1979–1983, 1986) and Kansas City Royals (1984–1985); pitched in Game 4 of 1985 World Series |
| Vic Shealy | 1979 | Defensive coordinator, Kansas Jayhawks; won national championship as head coach of Azusa Pacific University (NAIA) in 1998 |
| David Gibbs | 1987 | Defensive backs coach, Kansas City Chiefs (2006–present), Denver Broncos (2001–2004); defensive coordinator, University of Minnesota (1997–2000), Auburn University (2005) |
| Andre Payne | 1993 | College basketball coach |
| Tracy Rocker | 1992–1993, Defensive coordinator | NFL football player, Washington Redskins; winner of college football's Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award; member of the College Football Hall of Fame |
| Ben Thomas | 1992–1996, teacher, football coach | NFL football player |
| Marcus Washington | 1996 | NFL football player, Indianapolis Colts (2000–2003), Washington Redskins (2004–2009); Pro Bowl, 2005 |
| Joe Whitt Jr. | 1997 | football coach |
| James Joseph | 1996–2004, teacher, football coach | NFL football player, Philadelphia Eagles, Cincinnati Bengals |
| Osi Umenyiora | 1999 | NFL football player, New York Giants; Pro Bowl, 2006, 2008 |
| DeMarcus Ware | 2001 | NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys; Pro Bowl, 2007–2010 |
| Zach Clayton | 2002–2005 | NFL football player, Tennessee Titans |
| Brandon Boudreaux | 2007 | CFL football player |
| Jamie Hampton | 2008 | Professional tennis player |
| Karibi Dede | 2009–2011, football coach | NFL football player, New York Giants; CFL football player, Montreal Alouettes |
| Cody Core | 2012 | NFL football player, Cincinnati Bengals |
| Reuben Foster | 2013 | Football player, consensus High School All-American |
| Mohamoud Diabate | 2018 | NFL football player, Cincinnati Bengals |

## Other people
### Principals and presidents

| Name | Years | Title |
| J. Alma Pelot | 1843–1849 | Principal |
| William D. Williams | 1849–1851 | Principal |
| D.S.T. Douglas | 1851–1853 | President |
| John Parker Lee | 1853 | President |
| John M. Darby | 1855–1858 | President |
| E.D. Pitts | 1858–1860 | President |
| William P. Harrison | 1861–1862 | President |
| James K. Armstrong | 1860s | President |
| W. F. Slaton | 1860s | Principal |
| William Shapard | 1870s | President |
| Henry M. Urquhart | 1878–1880 | President |
| Theodore J. Lamar | 1880–1885 | President |
| Gustavus J. Orr, Jr. | 1885–1887 | Principal |
| Alicia Melton | 1885–1887 | Principal |
| Annie W. Brockman | 1889–1891 | Principal |
| A.G. Dowdell | 1891–1892 | Principal |
| James J. McKee | 1892–1893 | Principal |
| W. Hugh McKee | 1893–1895 | Principal |
| George W. Duncan | 1895–1902 | Principal |
| R.W. Smallwood | 1902–1904 | Principal |
| Augustus Bogard | 1904–1907 | Principal |
| W.F. Osburn | 1907–1910 | Principal |
| Stanley C. Godbold | 1910–1914 | Principal |
| I. T. Quinn | 1914–1915 | Principal |
| J.A. Parrish | 1915–1946 | Principal |
| V.C. Helms | 1946–1948 | Principal |
| O.B. Hodges | 1948–1954 | Principal |
| James R. Edmonson | 1954–1955 | Principal |
| Russell Clark | 1956–1957 | Principal |
| E.E. Gaither | 1957–1962 | Principal |
| James L. Lovvorn | 1962–1968 | Principal |
| James B. Douglas | 1968–1984 | Principal |
| Robert Dotson | 1984–1995 | Principal |
| Susan Hosemann | 1995–1996 | Principal |
| Michael Self | 1996–1999 | Principal |
| Cathy Long | 1999–2010 | Principal |
| Todd Freeman | 2010–2013 | Principal |
| Rick Ranier | 2013–2014 | Principal |
| Shannon Pignato | 2014–present | Principal |

### Fictional characters

| Name | Notability | Reference |
| Beach Head | A character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series | |

## References and notes

* ↑ United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902), 1696, 1696–1879.
* ↑ Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008, (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6;Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007 Archived 2006-10-15 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 13, 2007; State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (school level) - 2009-2010 Archived 2010-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved August 6, 2010.
* ↑ United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902); Auburn High School, "Commencement Exercises" (Auburn, Ala.: s.n., 2007).
* ↑ William Spratling, File on Spratling: An Autobiography (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969).
* ↑ "Former Knight Urbie Green", Auburn Knights Alumni Association Newsletter, September 15, 1996, 6; The School Musician and Teacher, November 1970, 56.
* ↑ "Rosemary Glyde, 46, Violist and Composer", New York Times, January 20, 1994; "Rosemary Glyde Featured Soloist with AU Orchestra February 28", Tiger Tales, January 1966.
* ↑ "Faculty Profiles: Allen Hinds", Musicians Institute, retrieved July 27, 2015; Auburn High School, "The Tiger", vol. 30 (1974).
* ↑ The Los Alamos Arts Council, Look at the Arts Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (April 2006), 2; Trey Armistead, Auburn High School Band - Members 1981-82 Archived 2003-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 13, 2007.
* 1 2 Coury Turczyn, "Space Oddities Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", PopCult, August 17, 1995, retrieved July 13, 2007; Auburn High School, The Tiger, vol. 42, (1986).
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