page_title: List of Florida State University people
section_title: State Senators
hierarchical_section_title: List of Florida State University people / Government, law, and public policy / State Senators
caption_attribution_description: English: Florida State Senator Mike Haridopolos on Aug. 28, 2008 in a classroom at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL where he teaches a State Politics course.
context_page_description: This list of Florida State University people includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida State University. Florida State alumni are generally known as Seminoles. Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida. It is a founding member of the State University System of Florida. Florida State University is divided into 16 colleges and independent schools including the Colleges of Applied Studies, Arts & Sciences, Business, Communication & Information, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Sciences, Law, Medicine, Motion Picture Arts, Music, Nursing, Social Sciences & Public Policy, and Social Work, plus the Graduate School, Dedman School of Hospitality, and the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. Florida State University has produced five Rhodes Scholars, the highest in Florida. Since its founding in 1851, Florida State has graduated 167 classes of students and today has approximately 372,025 alumni.
context_section_description: Robert W. McKnight
  Former member of the Florida Senate
caption: Mike Haridopolos
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