# List of University of Virginia people

The University of Virginia is a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is a partial list of its notable alumni, faculty, board members, and rectors.

## Alumni

Col stands for College of Arts and Sciences.

### Academics and education

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
| William Antholis | 1986 | Col | Director of UVA's Miller Center; former Managing Director Brookings; former White House and State Department staff | |
| Donald J. Boudreaux | 1992 | Law | Professor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University | |
| Claire-Marie Brisson | 2021 | Ph.D | Preceptor in French, Harvard University | |
| William Yancey Brown | 1969 | Col | President of Bishop Museum, author and institutional leader | |
| John T. Casteen III | 1965, 1970 | Col, Graduate | President of the University of Virginia | |
| Edmund M. Clarke | 1967 | Col | FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award | |
| Anita H. Clayton | 1982 | Med | Chair of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine | |
| John R. Conniff | | Law | President of Louisiana Tech University, 1926–1928 | |
| Douglas Day | 1954 | BA; MA,PhD English | author, William Faulkner scholar, Clifton Waller Professor of English and Comparative Languages at UVa | |
| David Ellenson | 1973 | MA Religion | President Emeritus and Chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | |
| Jerry Falwell Jr. | 1986 | Law | Chancellor and President, Liberty University | |
| Gary L. Francione | | Law | Professor at Rutgers University | |
| Joanne B. Freeman | 1993, 1998 | MA, Ph.D | Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University | |
| Wade Hampton Frost | 1903 | Medicine | Founding dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, established epidemiology as a science | |
| Elizabeth Garrett | 1988 | Law | President of Cornell University; former provost of the University of Southern California | |
| Roger Harold Hull | 1974 | Law | President of Beloit College and Union College | |
| Charles W. Kent | 1882 | Col | English professor at UVA | |
| Gloria Cordes Larson | 1976 | Law | President of Bentley University | |
| Helen Matthews Lewis | 1949 | Graduate | sociologist, historian, and activist | |
| Edgar Odell Lovett | 1895 | Graduate | mathematician, astronomer, first and longest-tenured President of Rice University | |
| Richard A. Lutz | 1971 | Col | Professor at the Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences | |
| M. Elizabeth Magill | 1995 | Law | Dean of Stanford Law School | |
| J. Hillis Miller Sr. | 1928 | Graduate | President of the University of Florida (1947–1953) | |
| Blake Morant | 1975, 1978 | Col, Law | Dean of George Washington University Law School | |
| Nick Morgan | 1977, 1981 | MA, PhD | Assistant Vice President and Provost, University of Virginia; professional at Princeton University | $^{:229}$ |
| Edward P. Ney | 1946 | Ph.D | Physicist and college professor who made major contributions to cosmic ray research and atmospheric physics | |
| Marvin Banks Perry Jr. | 1940 | Col | President of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College | |
| Harrison Randolph | 1892 | Graduate | President of the College of Charleston (1897–1945) | |
| W. Taylor Reveley, III | 1968 | Law | President, The College of William and Mary; former dean and professor of law at William & Mary Law School | |
| William Craig Rice | 1975 | Col | President of Shimer College | |
| Larry Sabato | 1974 | Col | Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics | |
| Alex Sanders | 1990 | Law | President of the College of Charleston (1992–2001) | |
| Thomas A. Saunders III | 1967 | Darden | Chairman of The Heritage Foundation | |
| Stuart Schreiber | 1977 | Col | Chemical biologist; founding member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT | |
| Nicole Shelton | 1996, 1998 | M.A., Ph.D | Professor of psychology at Princeton University | |
| Brooks D. Simpson | 1979 | Col | Professor of history at Arizona State University, | |
| Robert Sitkoff | 1996 | Graduate | Professor at Harvard Law School | |
| Valerie Smith | 1978, 1982 | Graduate | President, Swarthmore College; former dean of the college, Princeton University | |
| William G. Thomas III | 1991, 1995 | M.A., Ph.D | History professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2016 Guggenheim Fellow | |
| Richard E. Wagner | 1966 | Ph.D | Professor emeritus of economics at George Mason University | |
| John C. White | 1998 | Col | Louisiana Superintendent of Education | |
| William Wulf | 1966 | Graduate | President of the National Academy of Engineering, designer of BLISS programming language | |

### Art and architecture

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Robert Llewellyn | 1968 | Engineering Science | Photographer |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | | Non-degreed | Painter |
| Nelson Saiers | 1997, 1998 | Col, Graduate | Artist and hedge fund manager |

### Business

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Lee Ainslie | 1986 | Col | founder and managing partner of Maverick Capital |
| Eric C. Anderson | 1996 | Engineering | President and CEO, co-founder, Space Adventures |
| David T. Beers | 1975 | Col | Special Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, former head of sovereign credit ratings, Standard & Poor's |
| Alfred Berkeley | 1966 | Col | President, NASDAQ Stock Exchange |
| John H. Bryan | 1960 | Darden | CEO and Chairman of Sara Lee |
| Algernon S. Buford | 1850 | Law | President, Richmond and Danville Railroad |
| W. Graham Claytor Jr. | 1933 | Col | President, Southern Railway and Amtrak; and U.S. Secretary of the Navy |
| George David | 1967 | Darden | Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation |
| William A. Hawkins | 1982 | Darden | CEO, Medtronic Corp. |
| Steve Huffman | 2005 | Engineering | Co-founder of Reddit |
| Bob Hugin | 1985 | Darden | Chair of Celgene |
| Mansoor Ijaz | 1983 | Col | Founder and Chairman, Crescent Investment Management Ltd |
| Paul Tudor Jones | 1976 | Col | President and founder, Tudor Investment Corporation and the Robin Hood Foundation |
| Stephen P. Joyce | 1982 | Comm | President and CEO of Choice Hotels as well as CEO of Dine Brands Global |
| Randal J. Kirk | 1979 | Law | Founder and Chairman, New River Pharmaceutical; |
| Alan Lafley | | non-degreed | CEO, Chairman of the Board, Procter & Gamble |
| Meredith Kopit Levien | 1993 | Col | President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company |
| Alexander F. Mathews | 1856 | Graduate | President and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte |
| Halsey Minor | 1987 | Col | Co-founder and former CEO, CNET Inc. |
| Daniel Mudd | 1980 | Col | CEO, Fannie Mae |
| Tammy Murphy | 1987 | Col | Analyst, associate, and project lead at Goldman Sachs |
| William Nelson Page | | Non-degreed | Co-founder of the Virginian Railway |
| Charlie Papazian | 1972 | BS Nuclear Engineering | founder of the Association of Brewers and the Great American Beer Festival, |
| Michelle Nunn | 1989 | Col | CEO, Points of Light and President of Care International USA |
| Alexis Ohanian | 2005 | Comm | Co-founder of Reddit |
| Steven Reinemund | 1978 | Darden | Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc. |
| Mendel Rosenblum | 1984 | Col | Co-founder of VMware |
| Julio Mario Santo Domingo | 1948 | Col | Colombian businessman, billionaire |
| Sheridan Snyder | 1958 | Col | entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| Samuel Spencer | 1868 | Engineering | President, Southern Railway |
| Mark B. Templeton | 1978 | Darden | President and CEO, Citrix Systems |
| Jaffray Woodriff | 1991 | Comm | CEO and co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM) |
| Robert R. Young | | Non-degreed | Chairman of the Board, C&O Railroad |

### Entertainment

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Robert Aldrich | | Non-degreed | film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen |
| Will Anderson | 2008 | Col | lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute |
| Krystal Ball | 2003 | Col | Anchor on MSNBC's The Cycle |
| David Berman | 1989 | Col | Lead singer of indi-rock band Silver Jews |
| John Brenkus | 1993 | Col | Host, ESPN's Sports Science |
| Margaret Brennan | 2002 | Col | Bloomberg TV anchor, In Business with Margaret Brennan |
| Edward Brophy | | Col | Actor |
| Coran Capshaw | 1983 | Col | founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys |
| Tom Cora | | Col | avant-garde cellist and composer |
| Katie Couric | 1979 | Col | anchor of CBS Evening News; former host of NBC's The Today Show |
| John Dickerson | 1991 | Col | Anchor of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson |
| Deidre Downs | | Non-degreed | Miss America 2005 |
| Kimberly Dozier | 1993 | Graduate | Reporter for CBS News |
| Sarah Drew | 2002 | Col | actress, Grey's Anatomy |
| Tina Fey | 1992 | Col | creator, writer, producer and actress, 30 Rock; former head writer, actress, Saturday Night Live |
| Schuyler Fisk | 2004 | Col | singer/songwriter |
| Bob Gazzale | 1987 | Col | President, American Film Institute |
| Jason George | 1994 | Col | Actor |
| Brennan Gilmore | 2001 | Col | bluegrass musician |
| Richard Glatzer | 1975 | Graduate | film director, producer, writer, Still Alice, The Fluffer, and Quinceañera |
| Ann Hould -Ward | 1978 | Graduate | Broadway costume designer, Tony Award recipient |
| Brit Hume | 1965 | Col | managing editor, Fox News |
| Laura Ingraham | 1991 | Law | Conservative talk show host |
| Mark Johnson | 1971 | Col | film producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia; Academy Award recipient |
| Jen Lilley | 2007 | Col | actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Artist |
| Jessica Lynch | 2000 | Col | Miss New York 2003 |
| Tyler Mathisen | 1976 | Col | co-anchor, Power Lunch; Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC |
| Rod MacDonald | 1970 | Col | singer/songwriter |
| Stephen Malkmus | 1988 | Col | lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement |
| Benjamin McKenzie | 2001 | Col | actor, Fox's The O.C. |
| PES | 1995 | Col | director, filmmaker, director of Oscar-nominated short film Fresh Guacamole |
| Ed Romanoff | | BA Communication | singer-songwriter |
| Andrew Scheinman | 1973 | Law | TV producer, Seinfeld; Emmy Award recipient |
| Teddy Sears | 1999 | Col | actor, Masters of Sex |
| Tom Shadyac | 1981 | Col | director, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty |
| Melissa Stark | 1995 | Col | reporter, ESPN and ABC's Monday Night Football |
| Skipp Sudduth | 1983 | Graduate | actor |
| Boyd Tinsley | | | violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave Matthews Band |
| Sean Patrick Thomas | 1993 | Col | actor |
| Dylan Walsh | 1986 | Col | actor, Nip/Tuck |
| Whitney Wegman-Wood | | MFA | actress, Kung Fu Ghost; screenwriter, The Last Butterflies |
| Stan Winston | 1968 | Col | Special effects expert, four-time Academy Award recipient |
| Paul Junger Witt | 1963 | Col | Emmy Award recipient; producer, Dead Poets Society; TV producer, The Golden Girls, The Partridge Family, Soap, Benson, and Blossom |
| Vern Yip | 1990 | Col | interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality |
| Sasheer Zamata | 2006 | Col | actor, Saturday Night Live |

### Government

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Danny Avula | | Col | Richmond-Henrico Health District Commissioner; Commissioner of Social Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Mayor-elect of Richmond, Virginia |
| Mortimer Caplin | 1940 | Law | Internal Revenue Service commissioner |
| James Laurence Cabell | 1833 | | President of National Board of Health |
| James W. Carroll | 1985 | Col | Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
| Paul Ilyinsky | 1953 | Col | Three-term mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. American descendant of Russian royalty |
| Robert Mueller | 1974 | Law | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Paul Craig Roberts | | Ph.D. | Undersecretary of the Treasury |
| Thomas A. Scully | 1979 | Col | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
| William A. Welch | 1886 | Graduate | General manager of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission |
| Walter Wyatt | 1917 | Law | General Counsel, Federal Reserve System |

### Law

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Nathan L. Bachman | 1903 | Law | Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court; U.S. Senator, Tennessee |
| Millard F. Caldwell | 1924 | Law | State Supreme Court Justice, Florida; Governor, U.S. Congressman |
| Ken Cuccinelli | 1990 | BS Mechanical Engineering | Attorney General of Virginia |
| Collins Denny Jr. | 1924 | Law | Pro-segregationist lawyer in Virginia |
| Thomas Watt Gregory | 1884 | Law | Attorney General of the United States |
| Mark Herring | 1986 | Graduate | Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson | 1854 | Graduate | Justice, United States Supreme Court; U.S. Senator of Tennessee |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1951 | Law | U.S. Senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General |
| Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., | 1988 | Law | Missouri Supreme Court Justice |
| James Clark McReynolds | 1884 | Law | Justice, United States Supreme Court |
| Andy Oldham | 2001 | Col | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
| Ken Paxton | 1991 | Law | Attorney General of Texas |
| Stanley Forman Reed | 1908 | Law | Justice, United States Supreme Court; United States Solicitor General |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | 1982 | Law | Chief prosecuting attorney, Riverkeeper; chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance; co-host of Ring of Fire, 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| Thomas Davis Ranson | 1868 | Law | Virginian lawyer and businessperson, veteran Capt. of the Confederate States Army serving under Gen. Stonewall Jackson |
| Chuck Rosenberg | 1990 | Law | United States Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia and Southern District of Texas; former Counsel to the FBI Director; Counselor to the US Attorney General |
| Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow | 1835 | Law | Missouri Attorney General and Border Ruffian |
| William M. Walton | 1851 | Law | Attorney General of Texas |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | 1982 | Law | Attorney General of Rhode Island, United States Senator from Rhode Island |

### Literature and journalism

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Corban Addison | 2004 | Law | author of A Walk Across the Sun |
| Susanne Antonetta | 1989 | MFA | poet and author |
| Taylor Antrim | 2004 | MFA | Novelist |
| Amy Argetsinger | 1990 | Col | Writer and editor at the Washington Post |
| Louis Auchincloss | 1941 | Law | Novelist, lawyer, National Book Award for Fiction finalist |
| David Baldacci | 1986 | Law | novelist Memory Man, The Camel Club, Total Control |
| Fred Barnes | 1965 | Col | editor, The Weekly Standard |
| Sandra Beasley | 2002 | Col | Poet and writer, 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize |
| David Blight | 2020 | Col | Pulitzer Prize winner in history for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom |
| Jamelle Bouie | 2009 | Col | Columnist for the New York Times, Forbes 30 under 30 2015 |
| Paul Bowles | | Non-degreed | Novelist, travel writer, composer, author of The Sheltering Sky, Up Above the World |
| Michael P. Branch | | MA, Ph.D | ecocritic, writer, and activist |
| William Cabell Bruce | 1880 | Col | 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography |
| Oni Buchanan | 1997 | Col | Poet, National Poetry Series winner 2007 |
| Erskine Caldwell | | Non-degreed | novelist, author of Tobacco Road |
| Virginius Dabney | | Col | Editor of Richmond Times Dispatch, author, Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Kyle Dargan | 2002 | Col | Poet, 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize |
| Laura Dave | 2003 | MFA | Novelist The Last Thing He Told Me |
| Philip F. Deaver | 1978 | Graduate | writer and poet |
| Lane DeGregor | 1989, 1995 | Col, Graduate | Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist |
| Heather Derr-Smith | 1995 | Col | poet |
| Tyler Drumheller | 1974 | Col | pre-Iraq war European CIA station chief; author of On the Brink |
| Claudia Emerson | 1979 | Col | 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Poet Laureate 2008 of Virginia |
| Emma Copley Eisenberg | 2014 | MFA | author of The Third Rainbow Girl |
| Linda Fairstein | 1972 | Law | prosecutor of sex crimes in Manhattan and best-selling author of crime novels |
| Richard Foerster | 1972 | Col | poet |
| Thomas Frank | 1987 | Col | founder and editor, The Baffler |
| William Fuller | 1983 | Ph.D. | poet; senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation |
| Ted Genoways | 1999 | MFA | Writer, journalist, author |
| Emily Giffin | 1997 | Law | chick lit author |
| W. Douglas Gordon | 1898 | Law | editor Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch |
| David M. Granger | 1981 | Graduate | editor-in-chief of Esquire |
| Julien Green | 1922 | Col | a major figure of French literature of the 20th century |
| Chad Harbach | 2004 | MFA | novelist, author of The Art of Fielding |
| Vashti Harrison | 2010 | Col | Children's book writer, illustrator, filmmaker, and illustrator of Sulwe |
| Bernard Holland | | Col | former chief music critic for The New York Times |
| Philip K. Howard | 1974 | Law | writer, author of Life without Lawyers |
| Edward P. Jones | 1981 | Graduate | author, winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, MacArthur Fellow |
| Mary Beth Keane | 2005 | MFA | Novelist |
| Jack T. Kirby | | MA, Ph.D | historian of the Southern United States, awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song |
| Melissa Kirsch | 1996 | Col | author, assistant editor, culture and lifestyle at New York Times |
| Christina Baker Kline | 1990 | MFA | Novelist |
| Jeb Livingood | 2000 | MFA | Poet |
| Emma Lord | 2012 | Col | author |
| Rich Lowry | 1990 | Col | editor-in-chief, National Review |
| Erika Meitner | | MFA, MA | Poet, National Book Award Finalist 2018 for poetry |
| Daniel Mendelsohn | 1982 | Col | Writer and columnist, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, professor at Bard College |
| Lulu Miller | 2013 | MFA | Writer and Peabody Award winning science reporter for NPR |
| Robert Miskimon | | Non-degreed | novelist, journalist, poet |
| Adam Mitzner | 1989 | Law | Novelist, recipient of the Silver Gavel Awards |
| Arthur D. Morse | | | print and television journalist, and author of While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy |
| David Nolan | 1967 | Col | author and historian |
| Nikki Ogunnaike | 2007 | Col | Editor in chief of Marie Claire, former senior digital director of Harper's Bazaar |
| Breece D'J Pancake | | Non-degreed | short-story writer |
| Kiki Petrosino | 2001 | Col | Poet |
| Hannah Pittard | 2007 | MFA | Novelist |
| Edgar Allan Poe | | Non-degreed | Poet, "father of gothic literature", author of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Sarah Posner | 1990 | Law | Writer and journalist |
| Will Shortz | 1977 | Law | editor of The New York Times crossword puzzle |
| Safiya Sinclair | 2014 | MFA | Poet |
| Jens Söring | | Non-degreed | Autobiographer and writer of social issues, convicted murderer without parole |
| Lisa Russ Spaar | 1978, 1982 | Col, MFA | Poet, Pushcart Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts, professor at University of Virginia |
| William Force Stead | 1905 | Col | Poet and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford |
| Darcey Steinke | | MFA | author |
| Sheryl Gay Stolberg | 1983 | Col | Journalist for the New York Times |
| Ron Suskind | 1981 | Col | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author |
| Aoibheann Sweeney | 2000 | MGA | Novelist, author of Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking |
| Henry S. Taylor | 1964 | Col | novelist, 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Flying Change |
| Evan Thomas | 1977 | Law | author, journalist, historian, editor at Newsweek, author of The Wise Men |
| Samantha Thornhill | 2004 | MFA | Poet |
| Jia Tolentino | 2009 | Col | Writer and editor, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, staff writer at The New Yorker |
| Michael Vitez | 1979 | Col | staff writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Helen Wan | 1998 | Law | novelist, lawyer, author of Partner Track |
| Tia Williams | 1997 | Col | novelist, editor |
| Theodore Wong | Did not graduate | | Translator |
| Jenna Wortham, | 2004 | Col | author and journalist, culture writer at the New York Times, Black Futures |

### Medicine

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Rupert Blue | 1890 | Co | Surgeon General of the United States |
| S. Ward Casscells | 1939 | Medicine | Pioneering orthopedic surgeon, who introduced arthroscopy of the knee joint into practice in the United States |
| Francis Collins | 1970 | Col | Director of the Human Genome Project and past director, National Institute of Health |
| Lisa L. Cunningham | | Ph.D. | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders scientific director, |
| Hugh S. Cumming | 1893 | Medicine | Surgeon General of the United States |
| David John Doukas | 1975 | Col | Clinical bioethics scholar, family physician |
| J. Hartwell Harrison | 1932 | Medicine | Pioneering kidney transplant surgeon |
| Charles T. Pepper | 1855 | Medicine | Physician who surgeon who was the original "Dr. Pepper" according to the Dr Pepper Company |
| Vivian Pinn | 1967 | Medicine | Former associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health |
| Walter Reed | 1869 | Medicine | Medical researcher and discovered transmission of yellow fever |
| Beverly R. Wellford | 1816 | Graduate | Sixth president of the American Medical Association |
| Hugh H. Young | 1891 | Medicine | Inventor, author, pioneering surgeon |

### Military

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Fernando Bolivar | | | Venezuelan military, nephew of General Simon Bolivar |
| Richard E. Byrd | | non-degreed | Naval officer, pioneering American aviator, polar explorer |
| W. Graham Claytor Jr. | 1933 | Col | U.S. Secretary of the Navy; President, Southern Railway and Amtrak |
| Philip St. George Cocke | 1828 | | Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War |
| Hilary A. Herbert | 1855 | Law | Secretary of the Navy |
| Eppa Hunton | 1843 | Law | CSA Brigadier General; U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Robert Magnus | 1969 | Col | United States Marine Corps four-star general |
| John B. Magruder | | non-degreed | Confederate Army general during the Civil War |
| John Morgan | 1972 | Col | Vice Admiral in the United States Navy |
| John S. Mosby | | | Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. |
| Charles Pede | 1984, 1987 | Col, Law | United States Army lieutenant general, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army |
| William Pegram | | Law | Artillery officer in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. |
| Carnot Posey | | Law | Confederate general in the American Civil War |
| George W. Randolph | 1842 | Law | Confederate States Secretary of War |
| James Seddon | 1836 | Graduate | 4th Confederate States Secretary of War |
| Alexander Vandegrift | 1908 | Col | Commandant of the Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient |

### Politics

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Yasushi Akashi | 1956 | Graduate | Chairman, International House of Japan; former Undersecretary of the United Nations |
| George Allen | 1974, 1977 | Col, Law | Governor and U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Hanan Ashrawi | 1982 | Graduate | Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process |
| Nathan L. Bachman | 1903 | Law | U.S. Senator, Tennessee; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court |
| Alben W. Barkley | 1900 | Law | 35th Vice-President of the United States; U.S. Senator, Kentucky |
| Evan Bayh | 1981 | Law | U.S. Senator and Governor, Indiana |
| Andy Beshear | 2005 | Law | Governor of Kentucky |
| Kit Bond | 1963 | Law | U.S. Senator, Missouri |
| Alan Stephenson Boyd | 1948 | Law | first United States Secretary of Transportation |
| Harry F. Byrd Jr. | 1936 | Law | U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Millard F. Caldwell | 1924 | Law | Governor, U.S. Congressman, and State Supreme Court Justice, Florida |
| Greg Casar | 2012 | Col | U.S. Congressman, Texas |
| James Paul Clarke | 1878 | Law | United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas |
| John Cornyn | 1995 | Law | U.S. Senator, Texas |
| Joseph T. Curry | | | member of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
| William H. Daingerfield | 1829 | Col | 2nd Mayor of San Antonio; Ambassador |
| Henry Winter Davis | 1841 | Law | outspoken Radical Republican; U.S. Congressman, Maryland |
| Mary DeRosa | 1981 | Col | former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration |
| Hasjim Djala | 1959 | Law | Indonesian Ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; chairman and president of the International Seabed Authority |
| Joseph T. Doyle | 1990 | Graduate | Pennsylvania State Representative |
| William A. Eaton | 1978 | Col | United States Ambassador to Panama, United States Assistant Secretary of State |
| Paul Erickson | 1988 | Law | political consultant |
| William Stamps Farish III | 1962 | Col | U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom |
| William Meade Fishback | 1855 | Law | 17th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator, Arkansas |
| Luis Fortuño | 1985 | Law | Governor of Puerto Rico |
| Michael E. Guest | 1981 | Graduate | U.S. Ambassador to Romania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. Ambassador |
| Barbara Halliday | | | Mayor of Hayward, California |
| Mark Herring | 1986 | Graduate | Attorney General of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia |
| Yan Huiqing | 1900 | Col | Premier and Prime Minister of the Republic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Chinese Representative in the League of Nations |
| Robert M. T. Hunter | 1829 | Col | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Eppa Hunton | 1843 | Law | CSA Brigadier General; U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Louis A. Johnson | 1913 | Law | Second United States Secretary of Defense |
| Brereton Jones | 1961 | Communication | Governor of Kentucky |
| John Kennedy | 1977 | Law | U.S. Senator, Louisiana, State Treasurer of Louisiana |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1951 | Law | U.S. Senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Attorney General |
| Ted Kennedy | 1959 | Law | U.S. Senator, Massachusetts |
| Angus King | 1969 | Law | 72nd Governor of Maine, United States Senator from Maine |
| William Preston Lane Jr. | 1915 | Law | Governor, Maryland |
| J. Hamilton Lewis | | | U.S. Senator, Illinois and first Whip |
| Sean Patrick Maloney | 1988, 1992 | Col, Law | U.S. Congressman, New York's 18th congressional district and former White House Office of the Staff Secretary |
| Thurgood Marshall Jr. | 1978, 1981 | Col, Law | Former White House Cabinet Secretary |
| Roy Martin | | Commerce | Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1962 –1974), 31st President of the United States Conference of Mayors |
| Henry M. Mathews | 1856 | Graduate | Governor of West Virginia |
| Jennifer McClellan | 1997 | Law | U.S. Congresswoman, Virginia's 4th congressional district |
| Samuel D. McEnery | 1857 | Col | Governor and U.S. Senator for LouisianaUnited States House of Representatives |
| Ana Montes | 1979 | Col | convicted Cuban spy |
| Janet Napolitano | 1983 | Law | Governor of Arizona, Secretary of Homeland Security, President of the University of California System |
| Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | U.S. Senator, Florida; NASA astronaut |
| Kirstjen Nielsen | 1999 | Law | 6th Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security |
| Longin Pastusiak | 1959 | Graduate | Marshall of the Senate, Poland |
| Thomas Caute Reynolds | 1838 | Law | 11th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri; Governor of Missouri (Confederate) |
| Chuck Robb | 1973 | Law | Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator |
| Joseph T. Robinson | 1895 | Law | Governor of Arkansas and United States Senate Majority Leader |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. | 1940 | Law | U.S. Congressman, New York |
| Chip Roy | 1994 | Commerce | U.S. Congressman, Texas's 21st congressional district |
| Mark Sanford | 1988 | Darden | Governor of South Carolina |
| Eugene Scalia | 1985 | Col | 28th United States Secretary of Labor |
| Faryar Shirzad | 1992 | Law | Advisor to United States President George W. Bush |
| Marc Short | 2004 | Darden | White House Director of Legislative Affairs |
| Michael Signer | | Law | Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia |
| John W. Snow | 1965 | Graduate | United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| Javier Solana | 1968 | Graduate | Spanish former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous European Union foreign policy chief |
| Richard B. Spencer | 2001 | Col | Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, President and director of the National Policy Institute |
| William B. Spong Jr. | 1947 | Law | U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| John C. Stennis | 1928 | Law | U.S. Senator, Mississippi |
| Edward Stettinius Jr. | 1924 | Col | United States Secretary of State |
| Robert M. Switzer | | Law | United States Representative |
| Charles L. Terry Jr. | 1922 | Col | Governor of Delaware |
| Robert Toombs | 1830 | Law | U.S. Senator, Georgia |
| John V. Tunney | 1959 | Law | U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator, California |
| Thomas B. Turley | 1867 | Law | U.S. Senator, Tennessee |
| John Warner | 1953 | Law | U.S. Senator, Virginia |
| Mac Warner | 1991 | Law | Secretary of State of West Virginia |
| Lowell P. Weicker Jr. | 1957 | Law | Governor of Connecticut, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Senator |
| Kevin Whitaker | 1979 | Col | United States Ambassador to Colombia |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | 1982 | Law | United States Senator from Rhode Island, Attorney General of Rhode Island |
| John Sharp Williams | 1876 | Law | Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives |
| Wayne W. Williams | 1989 | Law | Secretary of State of Colorado |
| Woodrow Wilson | | Non-degreed | 28th President of the United States |

### Religion

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Charles Augustus Briggs | 1860 | Col | Hebrew scholar and theologian |
| Lloyd R. Craighill | | | Second Bishop of Anking, China |
| Carl P. Daw Jr. | | MA, Ph.D | executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada |
| Collins Denny | | Graduate | Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1910–1939) |
| James Addison Ingle | 1885, 1888 | BA, MA | first bishop of the Missionary District of Hankow, China |
| J. William Jones | 1859 | | Confederate chaplain, campus minister, Christian author |

### Science and technology

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| John Backus | | Non-degreed | Inventor of first high-level programming language, FORTRAN, and recipient of the 1977 A.M. Turing Award |
| Daniel Barringer | 1888 | Graduate | proved the existence of meteorites on Earth (Barringer Meteorite Crater) |
| Jesse Beams | 1926 | Graduate | one of five primary physicists selected for the Manhattan Project, pioneer of ultracentrifuge |
| Norman L. Crabill | 1957 | Master of Aeronautical Engineering | Engineer, inventor, author |
| Heber Doust Curtis | 1902 | Graduate | Astronomer who participated in the "Great Debate" with Harlow Shapley, 1920 |
| Patrick G. Forrester | 1989 | Graduate | NASA astronaut |
| Matthew P. Hardy | 1985 | Ph.D.Biology | Reproductive biologist who has made fundamental contributions in Leydig cell differentiation and function |
| Karl G. Henize | 1947, 1948 | Col, Graduate | Astronomer; NASA astronaut |
| Thomas Marshburn | 1984 | Engineering | NASA astronaut |
| Janet Akyüz Mattei | 1972 | Graduate | astronomer; director, the American Association of Variable Star Observers |
| Leland Melvin | 1991 | Engineering | NASA astronaut |
| Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | NASA astronaut; U.S. Senator, Florida |
| Edward P. Ney | 1946 | Ph.D | astrophysicist; discovered heavy cosmic ray nuclei |
| Haller Nutt | | Non-degreed | Developer of the Egypto-Mexican cotton hybrid |
| Charles Pollard Olivier | 1911 | Graduate | astronomer; founder, American Meteor Society |
| Gregory Olsen | 1971 | Graduate | third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station |
| Phil Plait | 1994 | Graduate | author of Bad Astronomy and Bad Astronomy blog |
| Kathryn C. Thornton | 1977, 1979 | Graduate | NASA astronaut |
| Ann M. Valentine | 1993 | BS | inorganic chemist |
| Alexander N. Vyssotsky | 1927 | Graduate | Astronomer; cataloged Milky Way M dwarf stars |
| Thomas W. Whitaker | 1929, 1931 | MS, Ph.D | Botanist and horticulturist |
| Jeff Wisoff | 1980 | Col | NASA astronaut; engineering professor at Rice University |
| Ralph Elmer Wilson | 1910 | Graduate | Astronomer; Wilson crater on the Moon was co-named after him |
| Carl A. Wirtanen | 1939 | Graduate | Astronomer; discovered a number of asteroids and comets |

### Sports

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability |
| Val Ackerman | 1981 | Col | Founder and former president of WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference |
| Jeff Agoos | 1990 | | Swiss–born American soccer defender |
| Cory Alexander | 1995 | Col | Professional basketball player with the NBA |
| Darion Atkins | 2015 | | Professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| Ronde Barber | 1996 | Communication | Professional football player with Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| Tiki Barber | 1997 | Communication | Professional football player with the New York Giants; current sportscaster |
| Morgan Gautrat | 2014 | | Professional soccer player and member of the US Women's National Soccer Team |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 2016 | | Professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards |
| Heather Burge | | | Professional basketball player with the WNBA |
| Heidi Burge | 1993 | Col | Professional basketball player with the WNBA |
| Chris Canty | 2004 | Col | Professional football player |
| Rick Carlisle | 1984 | Col | Professional football player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks |
| John Choma | 1970 | | Professional football player with the San Francisco 49ers |
| Casey Crawford | | | Professional football player |
| Mike Cubbage | | | Professional baseball player and manager |
| Virginius Dabney | | | College football player and coach |
| Somdev Devvarman | 2008 | Col | Professional tennis player |
| Bill Dudley | 1942 | Education | Professional football player and NFL Hall of Fame |
| Mamadi Diakite | 2020 | | Professional basketball player |
| Daryl Dike | | | Professional soccer player and U.S. men's national team player |
| Jeffrey Eggleston | 2007 | | long-distance runner |
| Carlton Elliott | | | Professional football layer with the Green Bay Packers |
| Alecko Eskandarian | | Col | Major League Soccer #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team |
| Paul Ereng | 1993 | Col | 1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters |
| D'Brickashaw Ferguson | 2006 | Col | Professional football player with the New York Jets |
| Mustapha Farrakhan Jr. | | | Professional basketball player |
| Tim Finchem | 1973 | | Commissioner of the PGA Tour |
| Jake Gelof | | | Professional baseball player |
| Zack Gelof | | | Professional baseball player |
| Conor Gill | 2002 | Col | Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award; 2002 |
| Robert Kent Gooch | | | College football player |
| Jim Grobe | 1975, 1978 | | Head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team |
| Al Groh | 1967 | Communications | Former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia football team |
| Margaret Groos | | | 1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon winner; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters |
| Kyle Guy | | | Professional basketball player with the Sacramento Kings |
| Brandon Guyer | | | Professional baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays |
| Darryl Hammond | 1988 | Col | Professional Arena Football League player |
| John Harkes | | | Professional soccer player and coach |
| Joe Harris | 2014 | | Professional basketball player |
| DeAndre Hunter | | | Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks |
| Adam Haseley | | | Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox |
| Ty Jerome | | | Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns |
| Mike Jones | | | Professional wrestler; under the names Virgil, Vincent, and Curly Moe |
| Thomas Jones | | | Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs |
| Henry Jordan | | | Professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame member |
| Braxton Key | | | Professional basketball player |
| Melanie Kok | | | 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing |
| Joe Koshansky | | | Professional baseball player |
| Bowie Kuhn | 1950 | Law | former Commissioner of Major League Baseball |
| Jeff Lamp | | | Professional basketball player |
| Noel LaMontagne | | | Professional football player |
| Sylven Landesberg | | | Professional basketball player |
| Lesley Lehane | | | Winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country in 1982 |
| Chris Long | | | Professional football player |
| Javier López | | | Professional baseball player with the San Francisco Giants |
| John Loyd | | | College football player and team captain |
| Wali Lundy | | | Professional football player |
| Buck Mayer | | | College football player and College Football All-America Team |
| Tony Meola | 1989 | Col | Professional soccer player and World Cup goalkeeper |
| Jerome Meyinsse | 2010 | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| Heath Miller | 2004 | Col | Professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Eugene Monroe | 2008 | Col | Professional football player with the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Herman Moore | 1991 | Col | Professional football player |
| Shawn Moore | | | Former NFL and CFL player, All–American at UVA |
| Ed Moses | 2004 | Education | Olympic gold medalist in swimming |
| Trey Murphy III | | | Professional basketball player |
| Bret Myers | 2006 | MS | Professional soccer player |
| Ben Olsen | | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and coach with the D.C. United |
| London Perrantes | | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| John Phillips | | | Professional football player |
| Shamek Pietucha | 1999 | Col | Olympic swimmer |
| Chris Rotelli, | 2003 | | Professional lacrosse player |
| John Beverly Pollard | | | College football player and coach |
| Sonny Randle | 1958 | | Professional football player |
| Claudio Reyna | | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and captain of U.S. national team |
| LaRoy Reynolds | | | Professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons |
| Mark Reynolds | | | Professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals |
| Eppa Rixey | 1912 | Col | Professional baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame member |
| Jake Rozhansky | | | Professional soccer player |
| Ralph Sampson | 1983 | Col | NBA #1 draft pick, professional basketball player, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Becky Sauerbrunn | | | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team |
| Matt Schaub | 2003 | Col | Professional football player with the Houston Texans |
| Michael Schwimer | 2008 | | Professional baseball player with the Philadelphia Phillies |
| Mike Scott | | | Professional basketball player |
| Don Shula | | | Professional football head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins |
| Chris Slade | 1993 | Col | Professional football player with the New England Patriots |
| Michael Slive | 1965 | Law | Former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) |
| Devin Smith | | | Professional basketball player |
| Emily Sonnett | 2015 | Col | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team |
| Dawn Staley | 1992 | Col | 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, college basketball coach, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Chris Taylor | | | Professal baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Bradley Walker | | | College football coach and referee |
| DeMya Walker | 1999 | Col | Professional basketball player |
| George Welsh | | | College football player and coach |
| Ralph C. Wilson Jr. | | | Founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium |
| Monica Wright | 2010 | Col | Professional basketball player |
| Ryan Zimmerman | 2005 | Col | Professional baseball player with the Washington Nationals |
* Marial Shayok (born 1995), basketball player in the NBA and the Israeli Premier Basketball League

### Other

| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
| Jason Kessler | 2009 | Col | Neo-Nazi, white supremacist | |
| Otto Warmbier | | | College student imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion | |

## Notable faculty and staff

| Name | Field | UVA position | Notability |
| Henry J. Abraham | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Government | scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law |
| Bruce Arena | Soccer | Head men's soccer coach | coached the Virginia Cavaliers to five NCAA championships; head coach of the US national men's soccer team; |
| Julian Bond | History | Professor | Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; co-founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| John Bonvllian | Psychology | Associate professor | Pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication |
| Anna Brickhouse | American Studies | Department director | |
| James M. Buchanan | Economics | | Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 |
| Lester J. Cappon | History | Archivist and professor | Archivist for Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. |
| Meredith Clark | Media Studies | Assistant professor | Expert on Black Twitter |
| Ronald Coase | Economics | | Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 |
| Martha Derthick | Public Administration | Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs | Consummate authority on the Social Security Administration |
| Robert E. Emery | Psychology | Professor and Director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law | |
| William Faulkner | English | Writer in residence | Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962 |
| Elmer L. Gaden | Biochemistry | Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering | Known as "the father of biochemical engineering". |
| Alfred G. Gilman | Pharmacology | Assistant professor | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology |
| Larycia Hawkins | Political Science | Associate professor in religious studies and political science | |
| Matthew Holden | Political Science | Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics | former president of the American Political Science Association; former Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin |
| Thomas M. Humphrey | Economy | | Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Milton W. Humphreys | Latin and Greek | Professor | |
| Patricia Jennings | Education | Professor | |
| David C. Jordan | Political Science | Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics | United States Ambassador to Peru |
| Robert S. Kemp | Business | Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce | |
| Charles W. Kent | English | Professor | |
| W. A. Lambeth | Medicine | Professor and athletic director | First athletic director at UVA |
| Jennifer L. Lawless | Political Science | Commonwealth Professor of Politics; faculty affiliate of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | |
| Angeline Stoll Lillard | Psychology | Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor | |
| Dumas Malone | History | Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History | Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time |
| Barry Marshall | Medicine | | 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology |
| Ferid Murad | Biochemstiry, Pharmacology | Professor; Director, Clinical Research Center; and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine | 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology |
| Edward P. Ney | Physics | Assistant Professor | Made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy |
| Brian Nosek | Psychology | Professor | |
| Ken Ono | Mathematics | Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics | Expert on Number Theory and Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| Charlotte Patterson | Psychology | Professor and Director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program | Specialist in the psychology of sexual orientation |
| Andrea L. Press | Media Studies and Sociology | William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology | |
| William B. Quandt | Political Science | Professor in the Department of Politics | Member of the National Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty |
| William Barton Rogers | Philosophy | Department head and faculty | Founded MIT and became its first president |
| Richard Rorty | Philosophy | Kenan Professor of Humanities | influential writer |
| Larry Sabato | Political Science | Professor of politics; founder and director of the Center for Politics | Named the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal |
| James D. Savage | Political Science | Professor of politics; Faculty Affiliate of the Batten School | Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy |
| Antonin Scalia | Law | Professor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Natasha Sheybani | Biomedical Engineering | Assistant professor | First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award |
| William D. Spotnitz | Medicine | Cardiothoracic surgeon, University of Virginia Health System | Researcher in the use of fibrin glue |
| Herbert Stein | Economics | A. Willis Robertson Professor | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford |
| Peter Taylor | English | | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993 |
| George Tucker | Philosophy | Professor of Moral Philosophy | Early biographer of Thomas Jefferson and member of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| Eric Turkheimer | Psychology | Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology | Specialist in how genes and environments shape the development of human behavior |
| Siva Vaidhyanathan | Media Studies | Robertson professor of Media Studies | Permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate |
| Jerry White | Business Administration | Professor of Practice; Adjunct faculty of the Politics Department | CEO of Global Impact Strategies Inc.; co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| Bruce A. Williams | Media Studies | Professor of Media Studies | |
| Stephen K. White | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Politics | |
| Daniel T. Willingham | Psychology | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | Specialist in cognition related to K –12 education |
| Timothy Wilson | Psychology | Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology | Author of popular books |
| Tibor Wlassics | Italian | Kenan Professor of Italian Studies | Research on the poet Dante Alighieri |
| Brantly Womack | Political Science | Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs | |

## Rectors and members of the board of visitors

* Thomas Jefferson – Rector (1819–1826)
* James Madison – Rector (1826–1836)
* James Monroe – Board of Visitors (
* Joseph Carrington Cabell – Rector (1834–1836 & 1845–1856)
* Chapman Johnson – Rector (1836–1845)
* Andrew Stevenson – Rector (1856–1857)
* Thomas Jefferson Randolph – Rector (1857–1864)
* Alexander Rives – Rector (1865–1866)
* Robert Garlick Hill Kean – Rector (1872–1876)
* Armistead C. Gordon – Rector (1897–1898 & 1906–1918)
* John Stewart Bryan – Rector and board member (1918–1922)
* C. Harding Walker – Rector (1922–1930)
* Edward R. Stettinius Jr. – Rector (1946–1949)
* Albert Vickers Bryan – Rector (1960–1964)
* D. French Slaughter Jr. – Rector (1980–1982)
* Fred G. Pollard – Rector (1982–1987)
* Edward Elliott Elson – Rector (1990–1992)
* Helen Dragas – Rector (2011–2013)
* Whittington W. Clement – Rector (2021 –2023)