List of Randolph–Macon College alumni

Following is a list of Randolph–Macon College alumni.

Academic

 * Benjamin Lee Arnold (1862), American academic and the second president of Oregon State University
 * George E. Barnett, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University
 * William Malone Baskervill, writer and professor of the English language and literature at Vanderbilt University
 * Lambuth McGeehee Clarke, second president of Virginia Wesleyan College.
 * John W. Craine Jr., president of SUNY Maritime College
 * Richard Beale Davis, academic who specialised in the history of the Southern United States
 * James F. Dowdell (1840), second president of the East Alabama College, now known as Auburn University, and representative from Alabama to the United States Congress
 * Mary Virginia Gaver, librarian
 * William Conrad Gibbons (1949), American historian and foreign policy expert
 * Meta Glass, president of Sweet Briar College
 * John Lesslie Hall, literary scholar at the College of William & Mary from 1888 to 1928
 * M. Thomas Inge, Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph–Macon College
 * Henry Ludwell Moore, economist at Columbia University
 * Christopher Morse, Christian theologian and rofessor of theology and ethics at Union Theological Seminary
 * Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1844), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
 * Thomas G. Pullen, fifth president of the University of Baltimore
 * James I. Robertson Jr., historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech
 * Holland Nimmons McTyeire, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a co-founder of Vanderbilt University
 * Andrew Sledd, first president of the University of Florida
 * Greg Smith, a child prodigy who attended the college at age ten
 * Wilbur Fisk Tillett, professor of systematic theology and dean of the theological faculty at Vanderbilt University

Art

 * Worden Day, painter, printmaker, and sculptor
 * Thomas Downing (painter), painter, associated with the Washington Color Field Movement
 * Jim Sanborn (1968), an American sculptor, created the unsolved sculpture Kryptos in 1990
 * Mitchell Johnson, painter
 * Duane Keiser, painter, associated with the Painting a Day movement

Entertainment

 * Marty Brennaman, broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds
 * Dorian Leigh, model and one of the earliest icons of the fashion industry
 * Nader Talebzadeh, film director

Law

 * William H. Hodges, Virginia Court of Appeals judge, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
 * E. Barrett Prettyman (1910), United States Federal Judge after whom the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., is named
 * Lemuel F. Smith, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates

Literature and journalism

 * Ted Bell, American author of suspense novels, president and chief creative officer of the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago; and worldwide creative director of Young & Rubicam
 * Seth Clabough, American novelist, English professor
 * Edwin L. James (1909), journalist and war correspondent who covered World War I for The New York Times
 * Iris Kelso, journalist

Military

 * Claude A. Swanson, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Virginia
 * David W. Taylor (1881), rear admiral, U.S. Navy, and Chief Constructor of the Navy during World War I.

Politics

 * E. Almer Ames Jr., member of the Virginia Senate
 * Larry Preston Bryant, Jr. (1986), member of the Virginia House of Delegates who served as Secretary of Natural Resources under Governor Tim Kaine
 * William Duval Cardwell, Virginia politician. He represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as that body's Speaker from 1906 until 1908
 * Mildred Stafford Cherry, First Lady of North Carolina
 * James Rives Childs (1912) was an American consular and diplomatic official for over thirty year
 * David Clopton (1840), U.S. Congressman from Alabama, and associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
 * Michael G. Comeau, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
 * James F. Dowdell (1840), second president of the East Alabama College, now known as Auburn University, from 1868 to 1870, and a representative from Alabama to the United States Congress
 * Patrick H. Drewry (1896), U.S. Representative and state legislator from Virginia
 * Randy Forbes (1974) U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * Porter Hardy Jr. (1922), U.S. Representative from Virginia
 * William H. Hodges, Virginia Court of Appeals judge, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates
 * Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Sr. (1861), Texas politician and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives
 * Thomas Jordan Jarvis (1861), 44th Governor of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885. Jarvis later served as a U.S. Senator
 * James A. Jones, Virginia Senate
 * Chris Jones (1980), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. In 2014, he was named chair of the House Appropriations Committee
 * John J. Kindred, served five terms as U.S. Representative from New York
 * Ira M. Lechner, Virginia House of Delegates
 * John Letcher, Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly
 * Blanche Lincoln, United States Senator from Arkansas
 * Drew Maloney, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs
 * David W. Marsden (1970), member of the Virginia Senate
 * Walter Hines Page, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
 * Margaret Bevans Ransone (1992), American politician elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2011
 * James Williams Riddleberger (1924) U.S. Ambassador to Greece
 * William McKendree Robbins (1850), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
 * Margaret Ransone m, Virginia House of Delegates
 * William M. Robbins, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
 * Hugh Scott, Republican U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
 * Matt Shaheen, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Plano, Texas
 * Lemuel F. Smith, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates
 * Walter Leak Steele, U.S. Congressman
 * Claude A. Swanson, U.S. Senator, Governor of Virginia, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy
 * Walter Leak Steele, U.S. Congressman
 * Joshua Soule Zimmerman (1892), member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

Religion

 * James Cannon Jr., bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
 * Collins Denny, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
 * John Stanley Grauel, Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader
 * Carter Heyward, feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church
 * Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1844), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a co-founder of Vanderbilt University
 * Paul Reeves, Seventh Bishop of Georgia in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
 * Holland Nimmons McTyeire, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a co-founder of Vanderbilt University

Science

 * Jacquelin Smith Cooley, botanist and pathologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
 * Lemuel Whitley Diggs, pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology
 * John H. Gibbons (1949), American scientist and nuclear physicist, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Bill Clinton
 * Erica Glasper, behavioral neuroscientist
 * Mary Stuart MacDougall, biologist and instructor and researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory
 * William Alphonso Murrill (1889), mycologist and assistant Curator at the New York Botanical Garden
 * William Carter Stubbs, chemist and sugar industry researcher
 * George D. Watkins,solid-state physicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory

Sports

 * Jay Bateman, college football player and coach


 * Michael Breed, professional golf instructor and host of The Golf Fix
 * Christopher Chenery, owner/breeder of record for Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat
 * Mike DeLotto, college football coach
 * Milt Drewer, college football coach and athletic administrator
 * Beth Dunkenberger (1988), head coach of the Virginia Tech women's basketball team
 * Chris Gerlufsen, college basketball coach
 * Paul Gilliford, Major League Baseball player
 * Tim Landis, college football coach
 * George Preston Marshall, founder and first owner of the NFL Washington Redskins
 * Gregg Marshall (1985), head men's basketball coach at Wichita State
 * Brian Partlow, head coach of the Arena Football League's Austin Wranglers
 * Colin Selby, Major League Baseball player
 * Chris Snyder, college football coach and athletics administrator
 * Howard Stevens, professional football player
 * Gary Strickler, athletic director at Boston University
 * Syd Thrift, Major League Baseball player, scout, and general manager
 * Frank Walker, Major League Baseball player