# List of Texas A&M University people

This list of Texas A&M University people includes notable alumni, faculty, and affiliates of Texas A&M University. The term Texas Aggie, which comes from Texas A&M's history as an agricultural school, refers to students and alumni of Texas A&M. The class year of each alumnus indicates the projected undergraduate degree award year designation, although the actual year may differ. At Texas A&M and within its student culture, the term "former student" is more commonly used than "alumni".

## Former students
### Armed forces

| Name Class year Notability References Joseph W. Ashy 1962 Former United States Air Force general A.D. Bruce 1916 Former president of the University of Houston; former United States Army major general; founded Fort Hood Horace S. Carswell, Jr. 1938 Medal of Honor recipient; namesake of Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Texas Patrick P. Caruana 1972 Former United States Air Force lieutenant general Odell M. Conoley 1935 Former United States Marine Corps brigadier general Thomas W. Fowler 1943 Medal of Honor recipient William M. Fraser III 1974 Former United States Air Force general Patrick K. Gamble 1967 Former United States Air Force general George H. Gay, Jr. 1938 Former TBD Devastator pilot; sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 during the attack on the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway William G. Harrell 1943 Medal of Honor recipient John A. Hilger 1932 Former United States Air Force Brigadier General; participant of the Doolittle Raid during World War II Homer S. Hill 1940 Director of Marine Aviation 1970-1972 James F. Hollingsworth 1940 Former United States Army lieutenant general Hal M. Hornburg 1968 Former United States Air Force general Lloyd Herbert Hughes 1943 Medal of Honor recipient George D. Keathley 1937 Medal of Honor recipient Wood B. Kyle 1936 Major General, double Silver Star recipient Turney W. Leonard 1942 Medal of Honor recipient Charles T. McDowell 1943 Professor Emeritus of Russian and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington John H. Miller 1949 United States Marine Corps lieutenant general; veteran of three wars, later commanded Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic Teed Michael Moseley 1971 Former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Raymond L. Murray 1935 Former United States Marine Corps major general John L. Pierce 1919 Brigadier general, commanded 16th Armored Division during World War II Jay T. Robbins 1940 Former United States Air Force lieutenant general; fighter ace with 22 aerial victories in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II James Earl Rudder 1932 Former United States Army major general; 16th president of Texas A&M University Bernard Adolph Schriever 1931 Former United States Air Force general; former commander of Air Force Systems Command; namesake of Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Ormond R. Simpson 1936 U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general; commanded 1st Marine Division during Vietnam War Eric M. Smith 1987 U.S. Marine Corps general; 39th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps John B. Sylvester 1967 Former United States Army lieutenant general; former NATO Assistant Chief of Staff in Bosnia and Herzegovina John T. Walker (USMC) 1917 World War II United States Marine Corps lieutenant general; led 22nd Marine Regiment during Battle of Eniwetok and received the Navy Cross Otto P. Weyland 1923 Former United States Air Force general; former commander of Tactical Air Command Eli L. Whiteley 1941 Medal of Honor recipient Robert B. Williams 1923 World War II US Army Air Corps major general; led raid on Schweinfurt | A.D. Bruce, former United States lieutenant general Horace S. Carswell, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient Hal M. Hornburg, former United States Air Force general T. Michael Moseley, former United States Air Force general Eric M. Smith, 39th commandant of the Marine Corps |

### Arts
#### Art and architecture

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Nestor Bottino | 1977 | Architect and partner at Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture |
| Harold Dow Bugbee | 1921 | Artist |
| Preston Geren Jr. | 1945 | Architect and 2007 Distinguished Alumnus |
| Preston Geren Sr. | 1912 | Architect and civil engineer |
| Frank Malina | 1934 | Aeronautical engineer and artist |
| Adrian Smith | 1966 | Architect of the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa |
| Gene Summers | 1949 | Architect of Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe's right-hand man |
| Margaret Ann Withers | 2003 | Artist and poet |

#### Film, television, and theater

| Name Class year Notability References Mary Beth Decker 2003 Actress and model; former cast member of MTV's Road Rules and Road Rules: South Pacific Ty Hardin 1959 Actor, star of TV series Bronco Martha Madison 1999 Actress best known as Belle Black in Days of Our Lives Tim McCanlies Filmmaker, directed Secondhand Lions and wrote screenplay for The Iron Giant Tanya McQueen Actress Marc Menchaca 1994 Actor in Homeland, Ozark and The Outsider Ilan Mitchell-Smith Actor in Journey to the Center of the Earth Tiffany Thornton Actress known for her role as Tawni in Sonny With a Chance Rip Torn 1952 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor, films including Men in Black, The Cincinnati Kid, Defending Your Life, Cross Creek, Down Periscope, and television series The Larry Sanders Show Dusty Wolfe 2012 Former professional wrestler with the WWF, WCW, WCCW, and NWA territories Shobu Yarlagadda 1994 Indian film producer, co-founder and CEO of Arka Mediaworks | Tiffany Thornton Rip Torn at the 47th Emmy Awards |

#### Journalism and literature

| Name Class year Notability References Neal Boortz 1967 Libertarian radio personality and host of The Neal Boortz Show Richard L. Cox 1992 Author Geralyn Dawson Romance novelist Dan Flores Pre-1980 Historian of the American West at University of Montana at Missoula Steven Gould Science-fiction author Patricia Gras 1983 CBS television anchor and Emmy Award winner Payne Harrison Author Jerry B. Lincecum Emeritus Professor of English and author, affiliated with Austin College in Sherman, Texas Russell Lutz Science-fiction author Roland Martin 1991 CNN journalist Melinda Murphy 1986 The Early Show correspondent and Emmy Award winner Lou Halsell Rodenberger Scholar of women writers Steven Romo NBC News anchor, correspondent and writer Martha Wells 1986 Fantasy and science-fiction author Lowell Mick White Fiction writer Gene Wolfe Science-fiction author | Neal Boortz Gene Wolfe |

#### Music

| Name Class year Notability References Shane Barnard 1998 Christian musician Jason Castro 2008 American Idol contestant Roger Creager 1993 Country musician Shane Everett 1993 Christian musician Robert Earl Keen 1978 Country musician Lyle Lovett 1979 Country musician; four-time Grammy Award winner Jimmy Needham 2007 Christian musician Granger Smith 2002 Country musician Chris Tomlin 1994 Christian musician Rick Trevino 1994 Country musician | Lyle Lovett |

#### Pageantry

| Name Class year Notability References Carissa Blair 1996 Miss Texas USA (1999); Miss Texas Teen USA (1992) Lisa Dalzell 2001 Miss Texas (2002) Kandace Krueger 2002 Miss USA (2001) Sherri Ryman Miss Texas (1981) Kimberly Tomes Miss USA (1976); Miss Universe finalist | Rebecca Robinson |

### Business

| Name Class year Notability References Khalid Al-Falih 1982 Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of Saudi Aramco Michael Bonsignore 1969 Former chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell David Duncan 1980 Arthur Andersen partner-in-charge of Enron account during the Enron Scandal Joe Foster 1957 Chairman of Tenneco Oil Company Marvin Girouard 1961 Former chief executive officer of Pier 1 Imports Britt Harris 1980 Chief investment officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; former chief executive officer of Bridgewater Associates Mavis Kelsey 1932 Original partner of Kelsey-Seybold Clinic Chakib Khelil 1968 Algerian Minister for Energy and Mines; former president of Sonatrach and OPEC Chase Koch Son of Charles Koch and President of Koch Fertilizer, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Rita LeBlanc 2001 Owner and executive vice president of the New Orleans Saints Lowry Mays 1957 Co-founder of Clear Channel Communications George P. Mitchell 1940 Founder and former chief executive officer of Mitchell Energy and Development (subsequently acquired by Devon Energy); pioneer of fracking; real estate developer T. Boone Pickens 1951 Business magnate and financier Anthony Wood 1988 Founder of Roku TV Oscar Wyatt 1949 Founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Coastal States Gas Producing Company (now Coastal Corporation) Henry Bartell "Pat" Zachry 1922 Founder and former president and chairman of Zachry Construction Corporation | Khalid Al-Falih, chairman of the Board of Directors of Saudi Aramco Rita LeBlanc, daughter of New Orleans Saints owner |

### College presidents

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| A.D. Bruce | 1916 | Former president of the University of Houston; former United States Army major general; founded Fort Hood |
| Ronald L. Ellis | 1987 | President of the California Baptist University |
| Lawrence E. Fouraker | 1944 | Former dean of Harvard Business School |
| Les Guice | 1986 | 14th and current president of Louisiana Tech University |
| Donald R. Haragan | | Former president of Texas Tech University |
| Maria Hernandez Ferrier | | Former president of Texas A&M University–San Antonio; former advisor to the United States Secretary of Education on bilingual education |
| Michael R. Lane | 1980 | President of Emporia State University |
| R. Bowen Loftin | 1971 | Former president of Texas A&M University; former vice president and chief executive officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston |
| Alvin Luedecke | 1932 | Former president of Texas A&M University |
| Juan L. Maldonado | Attended 1967–1970 with studies in engineering | President of Laredo Community College since 2007 |
| Taylor Marshall | 1999 | Former chancellor of the College of Saints John Fisher & Thomas More |
| Wendell Nedderman | 1949 | Former president of the University of Texas at Arlington |
| G. P. "Bud" Peterson | 1985 | President of Georgia Institute of Technology |
| James Earl Rudder | 1932 | Former United States Army major general; 16th president of Texas A&M University |
| Michael Tan | 1977 | University chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman |

### Criminal activity

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Eduardo Castro-Wright | 1975 | Former Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc; key figure in the U.S. government's probe into Wal-Mart's Mexican bribery allegations |
| David Duncan | 1981 | Lead audit partner on Enron for Arthur Andersen |
| Wen Ho Lee | 1969 | Nuclear researcher indicted on 59 counts by a federal grand jury for stealing U.S. nuclear arsenal secrets for China. In June 2006, Lee received $1.6 million from the federal government and five media organizations as part of a settlement of a civil suit he had filed against them for leaking his name to the press before any formal charges had been filed against him. Federal judge James A. Parker eventually apologized to Lee for denying him bail and putting him in solitary confinement and excoriated the government for misconduct and misrepresentations to the court. |

### Government and politics
#### Heads of state

| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
| Jorge F. Quiroga-Ramirez | 1981 | Former president of Bolivia | |
| Martin Torrijos | 1987 | Former president of Panama | |

#### U.S. cabinet secretaries

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Henry Cisneros | 1968 | Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio) |
| Rick Perry | 1972 | Former Secretary of Energy, former Governor of the State of Texas; former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Marvin Runyon | 1948 | Former United States Postmaster General |

#### U.S. federal judges

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| James DeAnda | 1948 | Former United States federal judge; attorney in Hernandez v. Texas |
| Simeon Timothy "Sim" Lake III | 1966 | U. S. District Court, Southern District of Texas |
| Mark T. Pittman | 1996 | U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas |

#### U.S. state governors

| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
| Rick Perry | 1972 | Former Secretary of Energy, former governor of Texas; former Texas House of Representatives member | |
| Frank D. White | 1956 | Former governor of Arkansas | |

#### U.S. House of Representatives members

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Joe L. Barton | 1972 | Former United States House of Representatives member and Ranking Member of the Energy & Commerce Committee |
| Carlos Bee | | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Earle Cabell | 1929 | Former United States House of Representatives member; former mayor of Dallas |
| Chet Edwards | 1974 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Bill Flores | 1976 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Louie Gohmert | 1975 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Jeb Hensarling | 1979 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Will Hurd | 2000 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Greg Laughlin | 1964 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Joe R. Skeen | 1960 | Former United States House of Representatives member |
| Olin E. Teague | 1932 | Former United States House of Representatives member |

#### U.S. ambassadors and foreign political figures

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Oscar Alvarez | 1982 | Former Minister of Public Security for Honduras |
| Mostafa Chamran | 1959 | Defense minister of Iran and a member of parliament |
| Chakib Khelil | 1968 | Algerian Minister for Energy and Mines; former president of Sonatrach and OPEC |
| Edwin Jackson Kyle | 1899 | Former United States Ambassador to Guatemala; namesake of Kyle Field |
| Larry C. Napper | 1969 | Former United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Latvia |

#### State Upper House members

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr. | 1938 | Former Texas senator; former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Chet Edwards | 1974 | Former Texas senator; United States House of Representatives member |
| Glenn Hegar | 1993 | Former Texas senator, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |
| Wally Horn | | Former Iowa senator |
| William T. Moore | 1940 | Former Texas senator |
| Steve Ogden | 1987 | Former Texas senator |
| Jerry E. Patterson | 1969 | Former Texas senator; commissioner of the General Land office of Texas |
| A.R. Schwartz | 1948 | Former Texas senator |
| Todd Staples | 1984 | Former Texas senator; commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture |
| Jeff Wentworth | 1962 | Former Texas senator |
| Tommy Williams | 1978 | Former Texas senator; former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Max Wise | 2008 | Kentucky senator, former FBI agent |

#### State Lower House members

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Charles "Doc" Anderson | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Trent Ashby | 1996 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from Lufkin |
| Dwayne Bohac | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Greg Bonnen | 1988 | Neurosurgeon and medical professor at University of Texas Medical Branch; Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2013 from Galveston County |
| J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr. | 1938 | Former Texas House of Representatives member; former Texas senator |
| Bill W. Clayton | 1950 | Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives |
| Myra Crownover | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| John Cyrier | 1995 | Owner of Saber Commercial, Inc., in Lockhart; Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 17 since 2015 |
| Dawnna Dukes | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| James B. Frank | 1989 | Current Texas House of Representatives member, House District 69 - Wichita Falls |
| Ryan Guillen | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Kyle Kacal | 1992 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from College Station since 2013 |
| Tracy O. King | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Glenn Kothmann | 1950 | Former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Lyle Larson | 1981 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2011 |
| Rick Noriega | | Former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Solomon Ortiz | 1999 | Former Texas House of Representatives member |
| Rick Perry | 1972 | Former Secretary of Energy, former Governor of the State of Texas; former Texas House of Representatives member |
| John N. Raney | 1969 | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Glenn Rogers | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Mark M. Shelton | 1983 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives (2009–2013) |
| Todd Staples | 1984 | Former Texas House of Representatives member; commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture; former Texas senator |
| Cody Vasut | | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Mike Villarreal | 1993 | Texas House of Representatives member |
| Jeff Wentworth | 1962 | Former Texas House of Representatives member; former Texas senator |
| Tommy Williams | 1978 | Former Texas House of Representatives member; former Texas senator |
| John Wray | 1993 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from Waxahachie and former mayor of Waxahachie |

#### Metropolitan mayors

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Bob Bolen | 1948 | Longest-serving mayor of Fort Worth, Texas (1982–1991) |
| Earle Cabell | 1929 | Former mayor of Dallas; former United States Congressman |
| Henry Cisneros | 1968 | Former mayor of San Antonio; first Hispanic mayor of a major United States city; former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| Ed Garza | 1992 | Former mayor of San Antonio |
| Will Wynn | 1984 | Former mayor of Austin |

#### NASA

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Aaron Cohen | 1952 | Former acting administrator of NASA |
| George Deutsch | 2003 | Former NASA press officer |
| Gerald D. Griffin | 1956 | Former director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
| Dana Weigel | 1993 | flight director at NASA |

#### National political figures

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Israel Hernandez | 1999 | Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director-General of United States Commercial Service |
| Bill Read | 1971 | Director of the National Hurricane Center |
| Jack Ward Thomas | 1957 | Former Chief of United States Forest Service |
| Francis Turner | 1929 | Developer of U.S. Interstate Highway System and Federal Highway Administrator |

#### State political figures

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Paul Bettencourt | c. 1980 | Member of the Texas State Senate from District 7 in Houston, effective January 2015; former Harris County tax assessor-collector |
| John A. Brieden | 1972 | National Commander of the American Legion 2003–2004; judge of Washington County, Texas |
| James Frank | | Businessman in Wichita Falls; member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 69 since 2013 |
| Glenn Hegar | 1993 | Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, former member of the Texas State Senate; former member of the Texas House of Representatives |
| Kyle Kacal | 1992 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives from College Station since 2013 |
| Lyle Larson | 1981 | Member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2011 |
| Garry Mauro | 1970 | Former commissioner of the Texas General Land Office |
| Don McLeroy | 1968 | President of the Texas State Board of Education |
| Tom Mechler | | Texas Republican Party state chairman since 2015; oil and gas consultant in Amarillo |
| Brooke Rollins | 1994 | Former president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation |
| John Sharp | 1972 | Former Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; 14th and current chancellor of the Texas A&M University System |
| Ryan Sitton | 1998 | Texas Railroad Commissioner |
| Barry Smitherman | | Texas Railroad Commissioner |
| Clayton Williams | 1954 | 1990 Republican Texas gubernatorial nominee |

### Science and technology

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Meryl C. Broussard | 1980 | Aquaculture |
| Thomas Camp | 1916 | Sanitary engineer |
| James Henry "Red" Duke | 1950 | Trauma surgeon |
| Michael E. Fossum | 1980 | NASA astronaut (STS-121 and STS-124) |
| Steven C. Hackett | 1986 | Environmental and natural resource economist |
| Michael T. Halbouty | 1930 | Winner of the Hoover Medal; wildcatter |
| Edward F. Knipling | 1930 | Entomologist; 1966 National Medal of Science winner; listed in Esquire as one of the "100 Most Important People in the World" in 1970 |
| Maurice Lukefahr | 1961 | Researcher in the field of plant resistance to insect pests |
| Bryan Lunney | 1989 | NASA flight director |
| Frank Malina | 1934 | Aeronautical engineer and artist; second director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Glenn McCarthy | 1931 | Wildcatter |
| William A. Pailes | 1981 | NASA astronaut (STS-51-J) |
| Richard Steadman | 1959 | Knee surgeon |
| Steven Swanson | 1998 | NASA astronaut (STS-117 and STS-119) |
| Gordon Walton | 1981 | Video game developer |

## Faculty and affiliates
### Nobel Prize laureates

| Name | Department | Notability |
| Derek Barton | Chemistry | 1969 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry |
| Norman Borlaug | Soil and Crop Sciences | One of five people in history to have won the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal; Nobel Peace Prize winner-1970 |
| Sheldon Glashow | Physics | 1979 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics |
| Robert H. Grubbs | Chemistry | 1995 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry |
| Dudley R. Herschbach | Physics | 1986 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry |
| Jack Kilby | Electrical engineering | 2000 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics; National Medal of Science winner |
| David Lee | Physics | 1996 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics |
| Vernon L. Smith | Institute for Advanced Study | 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics |

### Academia
#### College presidents

| Name | Department | Notability |
| William Bizzell | | Former president of the University of Oklahoma and Texas A&M University |
| Robert Gates | George Bush School of Government and Public Service | Former president of Texas A&M University; former United States Secretary of Defense |
| David Franklin Houston | Political science | Former United States Secretary of Agriculture and United States Secretary of the Treasury; former chancellor of the Washington University in St. Louis; former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University |
| Elsa Murano | Nutrition and Food Services | Former president of Texas A&M University; former United States Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety |
| Lawrence Sullivan Ross | - | Former governor of Texas; Civil War general; Texas A&M University president |
| Frank Vandiver | History | Former president of Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of North Texas |

#### Professors and scholars

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| Allen J. Bard | n/a | Recipient of the Priestley Medal and Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |
| F. Albert Cotton | Chemistry | Recipient of the Priestley Medal and Wolf Prize in Chemistry | |
| Kim Yi Dionne | Political Science | Political scientist | |
| Joe Feagin | Sociology | Pulitzer Prize-nominated author | |
| John Hope Franklin | n/a | Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient | |
| Melissa Grunlan | Biomedical Engineering | Holder of the Charles H. and Bettye Barclay Professorship | |
| Rebecca Hankins | n/a | Librarian/curator, Africana and Women's and Gender Studies; presidential appointee to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission | |
| Eli Jones | Marketing | Business school dean | |
| John Junkins | Aerospace Engineering | Founding director, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Professor, member of National Academy of Engineering | [192] [193] |
| Arnold Krammer | History | Two-time Fulbright scholar; two-time TAMU "Distinguished Achievement Award" recipient; specialist in German and United States studies; on faculty, 1974-retirement in 2015 | |
| John J. McDermott | Philosophy | University Distinguished Professor, philosopher, past president of the William James Society | |
| Gerald North | Atmospheric Science | The North Report Tropical Rain Measuring Mission | |
| Dudley L. Poston, Jr. | | Professor of Sociology and Demography | |
| Morgan Reynolds | | Former Chief Economist for the United States Department of Labor | |
| Venkatesh Shankar | Business | Marketing scholar; namesake of the Shankar-Spiegel Award | |
| Paul P. Van Riper | Political Science | Namesake of the ASPA Paul P. Van Riper Award | |

### Armed forces

| Name | Department | Notability |
| Edward C. Aldridge, Jr. | 1960 | Former United States Secretary of the Air Force |
| Silas L. Copeland | | Former sergeant major of the Army |
| Mark Welsh | Bush School of Government and Public Service | Former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force |

### Government and politics
#### Heads of state

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| George H. W. Bush | The Bush School of Government and Public Service | Former president of the United States; namesake of The Bush School of Government and Public Service and George Bush Presidential Library housed at Texas A&M University | |

#### U.S. cabinet secretaries

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| Robert Gates | | Former United States Secretary of Defense; former Texas A&M University president | |
| David Franklin Houston | | Former United States Secretary of Agriculture and United States Secretary of the Treasury; former chancellor of the Washington University in St. Louis; former president of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University | |

#### U.S. state governors

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| Lawrence Sullivan Ross | | Former governor of Texas, Civil War general, and Texas A&M University president | |

#### U.S. senators

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| Phil Gramm | Economics | Former United States senator | |

#### U.S. ambassadors and foreign political figures

| Name | Department | Notability |
| Ryan Crocker | Bush School of Government and Public Service | Former ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon; former dean of The Bush School of Government and Public Service |
| Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned | | Consort to the Emir of the State of Qatar; chairman of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development |
| Sally Shelton-Colby | | Former Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, and Grenada |

#### National political figures

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| Andrew Card | The Bush School of Government and Public Service | White House Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush; former dean of The Bush School of Government and Public Service | |
| Elsa Murano | | United States Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety; former president of Texas A&M University | |

#### State political figures

| Name | Department | Notability | References |
| John Nielsen-Gammon | | Texas State Climatologist | |

### Journalism and literature

* Joe Feagin – Pulitzer Prize nominee
* Charles Gordone – 1970 Pulitzer Prize recipient
* Robert Sherrill – journalist

### Science and technology

* Perry L. Adkisson – Wolf Prize winner; World Food Prize winner
* George Bass – National Medal of Science winner
* Richard H. Battin – applied mathematician and engineer
* Fuller W. Bazer – Wolf Prize winner
* Karen Butler-Purry – professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
* Robert Byron Bird – 1987 National Medal of Science winner
* F. Albert Cotton – National Medal of Science Laureate in Chemistry; Wolf Prize winner; Priestly Medal winner
* Michael E. DeBakey – world-renowned cardiac surgeon, innovator, and scientist
* Paul Erdős – mathematician
* Stephen A. Fulling – theoretical physicist known for preliminary work that led to the discovery of the Unruh effect (also known as the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect)
* Leonid Keldysh – namesake of Keldysh formalism
* John Henry Kinealy – engineer and inventor
* Peter Lax – mathematician
* Gordon Manley – climatologist
* Leonard M. Pike – established the Vegetable Improvement Center
* Marlan Scully – physicist
* Hobart Muir Smith – herpetologist; credited with describing more than 100 new species of American reptiles and amphibians
* Bjarne Stroustrup – designer and original implementer of the C++ programming language
* Nicholas B. Suntzeff – cosmologist, winner of Gruber Prize in cosmology, co-discoverer of dark energy
* Fred Weick – aviation pioneer
* James Womack – Wolf Prize winner

### Sports

* Bob Griffin (born 1950) – American-Israeli basketball player, and English Literature professor
* Mauro Hamza (born 1965 or 1966) – Egyptian fencing coach

## Athletes
### Baseball

* Chad Allen (1997) – former MLB player; Olympic bronze medalist
* Kevin Beirne (1996) – former MLB player
* Matt Blank (1997) – MLB player
* Rip Collins – former MLB player
* Lew Ford – MLB player
* Casey Fossum (2000) – MLB player
* Jeff Granger – former MLB player
* Grady Higginbotham (1920) – Texas A&M baseball head coach (1930–1935); Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball head coach (1928–1929); Texas Tech Red Raider football head coach (1929); Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball head coach (1925–1927)
* Zach Jackson (2005) – MLB player
* Davey Johnson (1968) – former MLB player and team manager, 1973 Comeback Player of the Year, three-time Gold Glove winner, four-time all-star, three-time World Series champion, 1997 AL Manager of the Year, 2012 NL Manager of the Year
* Logan Kensing (2005) – MLB player
* Chuck Knoblauch (1990) – 1991 MLB rookie of the year, four-time all-star, four-time MLB World Series champion
* Wally Moon (1951) – 1954 MLB rookie of the year, 1960 Gold Glove winner, two-time all-star, two-time MLB World Series champion
* Trey Moore – former MLB player
* Jake Mooty – former MLB player
* Troy Neel – former MLB player
* C. E. "Pat" Olsen (1923) – former professional baseball player; namesake of Olsen Field
* Les Peden – former MLB player
* Cliff Pennington – former MLB player
* Cotton Pippen – former MLB player
* Eric Reed (2003) – MLB player
* Topper Rigney – former MLB player
* Justin Ruggiano (2004) – 2007 Baseball World Cup player; former MLB player
* Ryan Rupe (1998) – former MLB player
* Ross Stripling – MLB pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
* Russ Swan (1986) – former MLB player
* Mark Thurmond (1979) – former MLB player
* Jason Tyner (1999) – former MLB player
* Michael Wacha – MLB pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays
* Kevin Whelan – MLB player
* Kelly Wunsch (1994) – former MLB player

### Basketball

* Morenike Atunrase (2008) – WNBA player
* John Beasley (1966) – former ABA player
* David Britton (1979) – former NBA player
* R. C. Buford (1980) – general manager of the San Antonio Spurs
* Alex Caruso (2016) NBA player for the Chicago Bulls
* Winston Crite (1987) – former NBA player
* Walt Davis (1952) – former NBA player
* A'Quonesia Franklin (2008) – WNBA player
* Jalen Jones (born 1993) – player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* DeAndre Jordan (2008) – center for Brooklyn Nets
* Antanas Kavaliauskas (2007) – Panionios BC player; NBA summer league player
* Acie Law IV (2007) – NBA player
* Doug Lee (1984) – former NBA player
* Darryl McDonald (1988) – NBL player
* Khris Middleton – NBA player for the Milwaukee Bucks
* Josh Nebo (born 1997) – player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Sonny Parker (1976) – former NBA player
* Jaynetta Saunders (2001) – former WNBA player
* Elijah Thomas (born 1996) – player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Brooks Thompson (1986) – former NBA player; head coach of University of Texas – San Antonio basketball team
* Toccara Williams (2004) – former WNBA player
* Antoine Wright (2006) – NBA player

### American football

* Sam Adams (1993) – NFL player
* Dennis Allen – NFL coach
* Keith Baldwin – former NFL player
* Ken Beck – former NFL player
* Phil Bennett (1978) – former SMU Mustangs football coach
* Martellus Bennett (2009) – NFL player
* Michael Bennett (2009) – NFL player
* Rocky Bernard (2002) – NFL player
* Rod Bernstine (1987) – former NFL player
* Harvey "Bum" Bright (1943) – former owner of the Dallas Cowboys
* Reggie Brown (1999) – former NFL player
* Domingo Bryant – NFL player
* Melvin Bullitt (2007) – NFL player
* Lee Roy Caffey (1963) – former NFL player
* Dan Campbell (1999) – NFL coach and former player
* Red Cashion (1953) – football official
* Ray Childress (1985) – former NFL player
* Mike Clark (1962) – former NFL player
* Chris Cole (1998) – former NFL player
* Calvin Collins (1995) – former NFL player
* Albert Connell (1996) – former NFL player
* Bobby Joe Conrad (1958) – former NFL player
* Quentin Coryatt (1994) – former NFL player
* John David Crow (1958) – former NFL player and Heisman Trophy winner in 1957
* Matt Darwin (1985) – former NFL player
* Sammy Davis (2003) – NFL player
* Curtis Dickey (1980) – former NFL player
* Ron Edwards (2001) – NFL player
* Dave Elmendorf (1971) – former NFL player
* Eric England (1993) – former NFL player
* Mike Evans (2014) – NFL player
* Robert Ferguson (2001) – NFL player
* Ronald Flemons (2001) – CFL player
* Jerry Fontenot (1998) – NFL assistant coach; former NFL player
* Tony Franklin (1979) – former NFL player
* E. King Gill – inspiration for the moniker "12th Man"
* Aaron Glenn (1993) – NFL player
* Jason Glenn (2000) – former NFL player
* Dante Hall (1998) – NFL player
* Curley Hallman (1969) – former football coach
* Geoff Hangartner (2004) – NFL player
* Lester Hayes (1976) – former NFL player
* Greg Hill (1993) – former NFL player
* Warrick Holdman (1998) – NFL player
* Johnny Holland (1986) – NFL coach; former NFL player
* Robert Jackson (1976) – former NFL player
* Tramain Jacobs – NFL player
* Michael Jameson (2000) – former NFL player
* Edward Jasper – former NFL player
* Bethel Johnson (2002) – NFL player
* Johnny Jolly (2006) – NFL player
* Keith Joseph (2004) – former NFL player
* Drew Kaser – NFL player
* Terrence Kiel (2002) – former NFL player
* Kelvin Korver – former NFL player
* Gary Kubiak (1982) – Houston Texans head coach; former NFL player
* Yale Lary (1952) – former NFL player
* Shane Lechler (1999) – NFL player
* Johnny Manziel (2014) – former NFL player
* Jason Mathews (2003) – former NFL player
* Leeland McElroy (1997) – former NFL player
* Seth McKinney (2000) – NFL player
* Steve McKinney (1997) – NFL player
* Reggie McNeal (2006) – former NFL player
* Ray Mickens (1996) – former NFL player
* Von Miller (2011) – NFL player for the Denver Broncos
* Brandon Mitchell (1996) – former NFL player
* Mike Montgomery – NFL player
* Mark Moseley – former NFL player
* Don Muhlbach (2003) – NFL player
* Terrence Murphy (2005) – former NFL player and coach
* Robert Neyland – former University of Tennessee head coach
* Dat Nguyen (1998) – assistant coach for the Dallas Cowboys; former NFL player; Lombardi Award and Bednarik Award winner
* Ernie Pannell – former NFL player
* Jack Pardee (1957) – former NFL player and coach
* Alan Reuber (2003) – former NFL player
* Gary Reynolds – NFL assistant coach
* Tommy Robison – former NFL player
* Zerick Rollins – NFL assistant coach
* Thomas Sanders – former NFL player, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles
* Ed Simonini (1976) – former NFL player
* Shawn Slocum (1984) – NFL coach
* Detron Smith (1995) – former NFL player
* Kevin Smith (1992) – former NFL player
* Cameron Spikes (1998) – former NFL player
* Gene Stallings (1957) – former NFL player and coach
* George Strohmeyer – AAFC player
* Boone Stutz (2005) – NFL player
* Dennis Swilley (1976) – former NFL player
* Damon Tassos – former NFL player
* Chris Taylor (2001) – former NFL player
* Jamaar Taylor (2004) – former NFL player
* Garth TenNapel (1976) – former NFL player
* Pat Thomas (1976) – former NFL player
* Rodney Thomas (1995) – former NFL player
* Rex Tucker (1998) – former NFL player
* Joe Utay (1908) – College Football Hall of Famer
* Kary Vincent – former Arena Football League player
* Derel Walker (2014) – CFL player, 2015 Most Outstanding Rookie
* Ty Warren (2003) – NFL player
* Richmond Webb (1990) – former NFL player
* Jason Webster (1998) – NFL player
* Taylor Whitley (2002) – former NFL player
* Mike Whitwell (1981) – former NFL player
* Pat Williams (1996) – NFL player
* Billy Yates (2002) – NFL player
* James Zachery – CFL player

### Golf

* Sam Bennett – The Masters Low Amateur (2023), U.S. Amateur Champion (2022)
* Danny Briggs (1983) – golfer
* Bronson Burgoon – PGA Tour golfer; Texas A&M Golf National Champion
* Cameron Champ – golfer
* Jeff Maggert (1986) – golfer
* Bobby Nichols – twelve-time winner on the PGA Tour; winner of the 1964 PGA Championship and runner up at the 1967 Masters
* Ryan Palmer – golfer
* Philip Parkin – winner of British Amateur Championship (1983); Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year (1984)

### Olympics

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Cammile Adams | 2014 | Member of the US Olympic Swimming team (2012) |
| Triin Aljand | 2010 | Member of the Estonia Olympic Swimming team (2004, 2008, 2012) |
| Alia Atkinson | 2010 | Member of the Jamaica Olympic Swimming team (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020); 2010 NCAA 200 breaststroke champion |
| Randy Barnes | 1989 | Member of the US Olympic Shot Put team; 1988 silver medalist, 1996 gold medalist |
| Aviv Barzelay | | Israeli Olympic swimmer |
| Kanika Beckles | 2013 | Member of the Grenada Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Janeil Bellille | 2015 | Member of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Walt Davis | 1952 | Member of US Olympic Team High Jump; 1952 gold medalist |
| Wayne Davis | 2014 | Member of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Erica Dittmer | 2014 | Member of the Mexico Olympic Swimming team (2012) |
| Amini Fonua | 2012 | Member of the Tonga Olympic Swimming team (2012) |
| Tabarie Henry | 2011 | Member of the U.S. Virgin Islands Olympic Track & Field team (2008, 2012) |
| Darrow Hooper | 1953 | Member of US Olympic Team Shot Put; 1952 silver medalist |
| Liliana Ibanez | 2014 | Member of the Mexico Olympic Swimming team (2012) |
| Riley Janes | 2002 | Member of the Canada Olympic Swimming team (2004) |
| Antanas Kavaliauskas | 2007 | Member of the Lithuania Olympic Basketball team (2012) |
| Breeja Larson | 2014 | Gold medalist in the 4x100-meter medley relay (2012) |
| Miranda Leek | 2016 | Member of the US Olympic Archery team (2012) |
| Deon Lendore | 2015 | Member of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Randy Matson | 1967 | Member of the US Olympic Shot Put Team; 1964 silver medalist and 1968 gold medalist |
| Jennifer McFalls | 1994 | Member of the US Olympic Softball team |
| Rita Medrano | 2012 | Member of the Mexico Olympic Swimming team (2012) |
| Jennifer Nichols | 2012 | Member of the US Olympic Archery team (2004, 2008, 2012) |
| Tetsuo Okamoto | 1959 | 1952 bronze medalist in swimming; Brazil's first-ever Olympic medalist |
| Jaele Patrick | 2012 | Member of the US Olympic Swimming team (2012); 2012 3M diving NCAA champion |
| Gerald Phiri | 2011 | Member of the Zambia Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Demetrius Pinder | 2011 | Member of the Bahamas Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Matt Rose | 2004 | Member of the Canada Olympic Swimming team (2004) |
| Eric Sehn | 2008 | Member of the Canada Olympic Diving team (2012) |
| Mike Stulce | 1991 | Member of the US Olympic Shot Put team; 1992 gold medalist |
| Stacy Sykora | 1999 | Member of the US Olympic Volleyball team (2000, 2004, 2008) |
| Jeneba Tarmoh | 2012 | Member of the US Olympic Track & Field team (2012) |
| Julia Wilkinson | 2010 | Member of the Canada Olympic Swimming team (2008, 2012); all-time winningest Big 12 swimmer |
| Vic Wunderle | 2002 | Silver medalist in Archery (2000) |

### Tennis

* Grant Connell (1986) – former world No. 1 doubles player
* Dean Goldfine (1987) – former Team USA coach and former coach to Andy Roddick
* Austin Krajicek (2011) – doubles champion at the 2023 French Open

### Other

* Shaine Casas – swimmer; 2021 World Short Course 100 m backstroke champion
* Jacobs Crawley – rodeo world champion
* Dude Perfect – multinational sports and entertainment conglomerate
* Kristy Hawkins – professional female bodybuilder
* Eddie Hill – drag racer
* Anjanette Kirkland – hurdler; 2001 World Indoor 60 m hurdles champion; 2001 World 100 m champion
* Fabrice Lapierre – long jumper; 2005 NCAA long jump national champion
* Paige Miller – swimmer; four-time conference champion; 2014 NCAA champion, 100 backstroke

## Fictional

* PC Principal – Character on the television show South Park, principal at South Park Elementary, reveals he is a Texas A&M alumnus in the season 19 episode "Stunning and Brave".
* Thermite – Operator from the video game Rainbow Six: Siege. In-game biography states he graduated from Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.
* Cletus "Clete" Frade – Main character in W.E.B. Griffin's "Honor Bound" series of novels. Frade attended Texas A&M and was a member of the Corps of Cadets during his undergraduate education, before transferring to Tulane University.