List of Sewanee: The University of the South people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.

Literature

 * Franklin Burroughs, author
 * H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
 * Thomas Lakeman, author
 * Andrew Nelson Lytle, author and former editor, Sewanee Review
 * Aaron McCollough, poet
 * Speer Morgan, novelist, short story writer and editor
 * William Alexander Percy, poet and memoirist
 * Wyatt Prunty, poet and founding director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference
 * John Jeremiah Sullivan, writer, Southern editor of The Paris Review, author of Pulphead
 * Allen Tate, poet, critic, assistant editor of The Sewanee Review
 * Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian, author

Music

 * Radney Foster, singer/songwriter
 * Jonathan Meiburg, musician
 * Tupper Saussy, composer, musician
 * Amanda Shires, singer/songwriter, violin player

Photography

 * Stephen Alvarez, photojournalist and National Geographic photographer

Television and film

 * Julian Adams, film producer, writer, and actor
 * Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
 * Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor, Hell on Wheels
 * John Swasey, voice actor
 * Jean Yarbrough, film and television director

Athletics

 * Walter Barrett
 * Chigger Browne
 * Eric Cheape
 * Wild Bill Claiborne
 * Rupert Colmore
 * Harris G. Cope
 * Charlie Dexter, Major League Baseball player
 * Frank Faulkinberry
 * Jenks Gillem
 * Delmas Gooch
 * Joe B. Hall, University of Kentucky head basketball coach
 * Orin Helvey
 * Frank Juhan
 * Aubrey Lanier
 * Lawrence Markley
 * Henry D. Phillips
 * Kyle Rote Jr., soccer player
 * Phil Savage, former Senior VP and General Manager, Cleveland Browns
 * John Scarbrough
 * Henry Seibels, captain of 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
 * John Shoop, football coach
 * Ormond Simkins
 * Lee Tolley
 * Silas Williams
 * Warbler Wilson
 * Eben Wortham, All-Southern fullback in 1917

Education

 * Douglass Adair, historian and editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
 * Alan P. Bell, psychologist at the Kinsey Institute
 * Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
 * John V. Fleming, professor emeritus at Princeton University
 * Rayid Ghani, professor of Machine Learning and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and Chief Scientist, Obama for America 2012 Campaign
 * W. Cabell Greet (1901–1972), philologist and McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College
 * Thomas N.E. Greville (1910–1998), mathematician and professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961), historian, archivist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 * Jeff McMahan, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
 * Charles H. McNutt, archaeologist and professor at Memphis State University
 * Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
 * Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
 * Eric Woodfin Naylor (1936–2019), Hispanist and translator of el Libro de buen amor
 * Samuel F. Pickering Jr., professor of English at the University of Connecticut; inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
 * Douglas Porch, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
 * S. Lynne Stokes, statistician and professor at Southern Methodist University
 * Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet
 * Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian and professor at the University of Florida and Case Western University

Journalism

 * Clarence Faulk, publisher of Ruston Daily Leader; owner of radio station KRUS; diversified businessman in Ruston, Louisiana
 * Ward Greene (1892–1956), journalist, playwright and editor
 * Smith Hempstone, journalist and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
 * Jack Hitt, author and contributing editor of New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and This American Life
 * Roger Hodge, deputy editor of The Intercept, former editor of Harper's Magazine and The Oxford American
 * Jon Meacham, Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, former editor-in-chief of Newsweek; winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography

Law

 * Phelan Beale, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
 * Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 2004–2013
 * Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
 * Alexander Campbell King, Solicitor General of the United States and Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
 * Benjamin Franklin Cameron (1890–1964), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
 * Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
 * Hart T. Mankin, General Counsel of the Navy, 1971–1973, and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 1990–1996
 * Travis Randall McDonough, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Tennessee
 * Patrick Henry Nelson II (1856–1914), South Carolina Fifth Circuit Solicitor; President of the South Carolina Bar (1911–1912); member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1885–1887)
 * David C. Norton, United States District Judge, District of South Carolina
 * Pride Tomlinson (1890–1967), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Military

 * Archibald Butt (1865–1912), journalist, military advisor to the President
 * William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), Surgeon General of the US Army
 * Cary T. Grayson (1878–1938), naval surgeon, rear admiral, chairman of the American Red Cross
 * Frank Kelso (1933–2013), admiral, USN, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
 * Marcel Lettre, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 2015–2017
 * Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
 * Bill Studeman, admiral, U.S. Navy, director of Naval Intelligence, director of the National Security Agency

Business

 * O. B. Grayson Hall Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Regions Financial Corporation
 * Robert Ivy, FAIA, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects
 * David Tallichet, restaurateur and creator of the themed restaurant
 * Rick Woodward, president Woodward Iron Company, owner Birmingham Barons

Politics and government

 * Robert Stanley Adams (1895–1943), member of the Florida State Senate
 * Ellis Arnall, governor of Georgia
 * Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
 * David Cadman, Vancouver City Councillor
 * Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington, 1946–1953
 * William S. Cogswell Jr., member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
 * Carl Copeland Cundiff, United States Ambassador to Niger
 * Steven Dickerson, Republican member of the Tennessee Senate, 2013–2020
 * Tucker Eskew, Republican political consultant
 * Kirkman Finlay Jr., mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, 1978–1986
 * Robert C. Frasure, first United States Ambassador to Estonia after regaining independence from the Soviet Union
 * Robert E. Gribbin, 3rd, United States Ambassador to Rwanda, 1996–1999, and the Central African Republic, 1993–1995
 * William Pike Hall Sr., state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, Louisiana, 1924–1932; Shreveport attorney
 * Clarke Hogan, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2002–2010
 * Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1954–1956
 * John Jay Hooker (1930–2016), attorney, political gadfly, candidate for Tennessee governor
 * Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee, 1911–1917
 * Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist
 * LeRoy Percy, attorney, planter, and politician in Mississippi; elected by the state legislature to the US Senate and served 1910–1913
 * Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada
 * Albert J. Pullen, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
 * Simon Pierre Robineau, member of the Florida House of Representatives
 * Steve Schale, State Director for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign in Florida
 * Armistead I. Selden Jr., Democratic congressman from Alabama
 * Phil Smith (1931–2020), member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-89
 * Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
 * John Sharp Williams (1854–1932), Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Mississippi

Religion



 * J. Neil Alexander, bishop of Atlanta and dean of the School of Theology of The University of the South
 * John Maury Allin, 23rd presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1974–1985
 * Harry Brown Bainbridge III, Bishop of Idaho, President of Province VIII, Chair of Episcopal Relief & Development
 * Allen L. Bartlett, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1987–1998
 * Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
 * G.P. Mellick Belshaw (1928–2020), bishop of New Jersey
 * Mark Bourlakas, bishop of Southwestern Virginia
 * Theodore DuBose Bratton, Bishop of the Episcopal Church and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans
 * Edmond Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * William G. Burrill, bishop of Rochester
 * Charles Judson Child Jr., bishop of Atlanta
 * Thomas N. Carruthers (1900–1960), bishop of South Carolina
 * William Stirling Claiborne (1872–1933), priest
 * Clarence Alfred Cole (1909–1963), bishop of Upper South Carolina
 * Glenda S. Curry, bishop of Alabama
 * Carl P. Daw Jr., executive director of the Hymn Society
 * Alex D. Dickson, bishop of West Tennessee
 * William Porcher DuBose, dean and priest
 * James Duncan, bishop of Southeast Florida
 * Chip Edgar (born 1964), bishop of South Carolina
 * Hunley Elebash (1923–1993), bishop of East Carolina
 * Thomas C. Ely, bishop of Vermont, 2001–2019
 * Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
 * Robert F. Gibson Jr., bishop of Virginia, 1961–1974
 * Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
 * Duncan M. Gray Jr. (1926–2016), bishop of Mississippi
 * Marion J. Hatchett, liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
 * John E. Hines, 22nd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1965–1974
 * George Nelson Hunt, III, bishop of Rhode Island
 * T. J. Johnston (born 1956), bishop in the Anglican Mission in America
 * Edwin M. Leidel Jr., bishop of Eau Claire
 * Clark Lowenfield (born 1957), bishop of the Western Gulf Coast
 * Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, bishop of Vermont, the first female Episcopal priest elected to head a diocese
 * C. Brinkley Morton, bishop of San Diego
 * Alfred C. Marble Jr. (1936–2017), bishop of Mississippi
 * Henry N. Parsley, bishop of Alabama, chancellor of The University of the South
 * Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
 * Charles Todd Quintard, bishop of Tennessee
 * Gretchen Rehberg, bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Spokane
 * George Lazenby Reynolds (1927–1991), bishop of Tennessee
 * Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire
 * Harry W. Shipps, bishop of Georgia
 * Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest
 * Hudson Stuck, Anglican Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
 * Eugene Sutton, bishop of Maryland
 * G. Porter Taylor, bishop of Western North Carolina
 * George Townshend (1876–1957), Archdeacon of Clonfert, Canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Hand of the Cause of the Bahá’í Faith
 * Reginald Heber Weller (1857–1935), Episcopal priest and bishop active in the ecumenical movement
 * Royden Yerkes, professor of theology 1935–1947