List of University of North Texas alumni

The following is a list of notable people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.

Athletics

 * Steve Austin (known as Steve Williams while at UNT), wrestler
 * Bill Bishop, NFL defensive tackle
 * Bruce Chambers, former Texas Longhorns football assistant coach (1998–2014)
 * Patrick Cobbs, NFL running back
 * Jaelon Darden, NFL wide receiver
 * Lance Dunbar, NFL running back
 * Tony Elliott, NFL nose tackle
 * Toby Gowin, NFL punter
 * "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL Hall of Famer, NFL defensive tackle and head coach
 * Cedric Hardman, NFL football defensive end; 1970 first round draft pick, San Francisco 49ers
 * Abner Haynes, AFL and NFL running back
 * Jim Hess, former college coach and NFL scout
 * Don January, PGA Senior Tour golfer
 * Chris Jones (born 1993), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Brad Kassell, NFL Defensive Player
 * Carl "Spider" Lockhart, NFL defensive back
 * Billy Maxwell, PGA Senior Tour golfer
 * Tony Mitchell, NBA forward
 * Umar Muhammad, football player
 * Jamize Olawale, NFL fullback
 * Zach Orr, NFL linebacker
 * Carlos Ortiz, PGA Tour golfer
 * Willie Parker, NFL offensive lineman
 * Johnny Quinn, USA Olympic Bobsled
 * Ray Renfro, NFL wide receiver
 * Hurles Scales, NFL defensive back
 * Kal Segrist, MLB second baseman and Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball head coach (1968–83)
 * Ron Shanklin, NFL receiver and All-Pro player
 * Charlie Shepard, all-star CFL running back
 * J.T. Smith, NFL wide receiver
 * Dennis Swilley, NFL offensive lineman
 * Tra Telligman, UFC fighter
 * Harry Vines, wheelchair basketball pioneer
 * David Von Erich (real name David Adkisson), deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas," brother of Kevin Von Erich
 * Kevin Von Erich (real name Kevin Adkisson), professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich
 * Brian Waters, NFL offensive lineman
 * Jeff Wilson, NFL running back

Arts and media

 * Lawrence B. Jones, journalist, news anchor, news reporter, investigative reporter, and Fox News media personality
 * Theodore Albrecht, musicologist
 * Larry Austin, composer
 * Joe Don Baker, film actor, Charley Varrick, Walking Tall, Cape Fear, three James Bond films
 * Dave Barnett, sports announcer
 * William Basinski, musician
 * Bob Belden, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winning composer
 * Brian Biggs, children's book illustrator
 * Gregg Bissonette, jazz and rock drummer
 * Sally Blakemore, paper engineer and pop-up book creator
 * Joan Blondell, Oscar-nominated film and television actress, Desk Set, Nightmare Alley, The Cincinnati Kid, Grease
 * Craig Bohmler, composer
 * Zach Bolton, voice actor
 * Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality
 * Billy Lee Brammer, novelist and journalist
 * Justin Briner, voice actor
 * Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band
 * Karen Mixon Cook, disc jockey
 * Eden Brent, blues pianist and vocalist
 * Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books; Web publisher; member of RSS Advisory Board
 * Matt Chamberlain, session drummer
 * Thomas Haden Church, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning film and television actor, Sideways, Spider-Man 3, Broken Trail
 * Jeff Coffin, jazz saxophonist of Dave Matthews band and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
 * Joseph Patrick Cranshaw, film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie Old School
 * Ivan Davis, classical concert pianist
 * Aaron Dismuke, voice actor
 * Miranda Dodson, Christian folk musician
 * Bob Dorough, bebop and jazz pianist/vocalist of Schoolhouse Rock songs
 * George Dunham, radio talk-show host and former "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"
 * Matthew Earnest, theatre director
 * Greg Edmonson, musician
 * Alyssa Edwards, drag performer, choreographer, and businessperson
 * Todd and Toby Pipes, one hit wonders from the 1990s (Deep Blue Something)
 * Rob Erdle, watercolorist, regents' professor
 * Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist
 * Kelli Finglass Director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, television personality, television producer
 * Steve Flanigan Film Producer, Director and DP.
 * Mark Followill, sports announcer
 * O'Neil Ford, architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
 * Steven Fromholz, singer-songwriter, 2007 Poet Laureate of Texas
 * Bobby Fuller, rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"
 * Phyllis George, Miss America 1971; First Lady of Kentucky, 1979–83; TV personality; broadcaster for The NFL Today
 * Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
 * James Hampton, actor and director
 * Gerald Harvey Jones, a.k.a. G. Harvey, (1933–2017), painter.
 * Kyle Hebert, voice actor
 * Don Henley, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and drummer, solo and with The Eagles
 * Sara Hickman, folk singer/songwriter
 * Ray Wylie Hubbard, country music singer
 * Kyle Irion, blogger and fiction author
 * Elliott Johnson, artist and designer
 * Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter
 * Jeffrey L. Kimball, cinematographer of Top Gun
 * Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP
 * Sue Ane Langdon, actress
 * Michael Lark, comic book artist
 * Lecrae, Christian hip-hop artist, actor, co-founder of Reach Records
 * T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge
 * Tom "Bones" Malone, trombonist; played with Saturday Night Live and Late Show with David Letterman house bands, and The Blues Brothers
 * "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with Saturday Night Live house band and The Blues Brothers
 * Jim Marrs, conspiracy theorist and author of Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy (the basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK)
 * Lyle Mays, composer and keyboardist with Pat Metheny Group
 * Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist
 * Eli McDonald, artist
 * Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won Pulitzer Prize for novel Lonesome Dove and Academy Award for screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
 * Meat Loaf, rock singer and film actor
 * Bill Mercer, sports and professional wrestling announcer
 * Takesha Meshé Kizart, operatic soprano
 * Jim Metcalf, news reporter and Peabody Award recipient
 * R. K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre
 * Lawrence Montaigne, actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman
 * Latonia Moore, operatic soprano
 * Maren Morris, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter
 * Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator
 * Jack Nance, stage, TV and film actor, notable for his works with director David Lynch including Eraserhead, Twin Peaks
 * Trina Nishimura, voice actor
 * Warren Carl Norwood, author of science-fiction novels
 * Roy Orbison, rock singer-songwriter in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 * Brina Palencia, voice actor
 * Alan Palomo, frontman for Neon Indian
 * Jessie Pavelka, television star and model
 * Craig Pilo (born 1972), drummer
 * David Portillo, operatic tenor
 * Emily Pulley, operatic soprano who has performed in more than 150 operas
 * Patricia Racette, operatic soprano
 * Leila Rahimi, sports reporter and anchor
 * Anne Rice, author, Interview with the Vampire
 * Michelle Rojas, voice actor
 * Jim Rotondi, jazz trumpeter, educator and conductor
 * Melissa Rycroft, dancer and television personality
 * Philece Sampler, film, television, and voice actor
 * Christopher Sabat, voice actor
 * Sonny Strait, voice actor and comic book artist
 * Andrew Savage, musician and artist
 * Emilia Schatz, video game designer at Naughty Dog
 * Ann Sheridan, film actress, star of Dodge City, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Nora Prentiss
 * Damin Spritzer, organist and academic
 * Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author
 * Alexis Tipton, voice actor
 * Darren Trumeter, member of The Whitest Kids U' Know comedy troupe
 * Paul Varghese, stand-up comedian, appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing
 * Jennifer Vasquez, Big Brother season 6 contestant; actor
 * Craig Way, sports announcer
 * Peter Weller, film actor and star of RoboCop
 * Noble Willingham, television and film actor, Walker, Texas Ranger, Good Morning, Vietnam, City Slickers
 * Kaela Sinclair, musician, keyboardist and vocalist for M83
 * Shara Worden, musician, performs under the name My Brightest Diamond
 * Xiaoze Xie, artist
 * Denny Thomas, Emmy-winning editor

Science and education

 * W. J. Adkins, B.A. 1930 (1907–1965), founding president of Laredo Community College
 * Dee Brock (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), senior vice president of educational programming at PBS
 * Elise F. Harmon, B.S. (1909–1985), physicist, chemist, and major contributor to the miniaturization of computers
 * Anita Jose, Ph.D, business strategist, essayist, and professor at Hood College
 * John E. King, PhD, president of the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University); president of the University of Wyoming, 1966-1967
 * Juan L. Maldonado (B.A. 1972, Master of Education 1975) has been the president of Laredo Community College since 2007.
 * Gary S. Metcalf (1957), organizational theorist and management consultant
 * Charles Mullins, cardiologist and former CEO, Parkland Hospital; administrator, University of Texas System
 * Lorene Lane Rogers, Ph.D. (1914–2009), president of The University of Texas, first woman president of a major public university
 * Nicola Scafetta, Ph.D, physicist

Government and public service

 * Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs since 29 April 2015. He was the former ambassador to Washington, former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia.
 * Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at UNT
 * Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927–1929); Attorney General of Texas (1929–1930); state court judge (1935–1937); chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937–1943)
 * Michael C. Burgess, current U.S. representative for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
 * Konni Burton, Texas State Senator as of 2015
 * Jack Cox, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; Houston oilfield equipment industrialist
 * Tony Goolsby (Class of 1961), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County from 1989 to 2009
 * Warren G. Harding, former Texas State Treasurer (1977–1983) and Dallas County Treasurer (1950–1977); former President of North Texas State University.
 * Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
 * Opal Lee, activist who championed Juneteenth becoming a U.S. Federal holiday
 * Joseph L. Lengyel, General, U.S. Air Force; Chief, National Guard Bureau
 * Clint Lorance (born 1984), Army officer convicted of second-degree murder for battlefield deaths; pardoned
 * Diane Patrick (Class of 1969 and 1999, M.A. and Ph.D.), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; former faculty member in education
 * Ray Roberts, former Congressman from Denton; namesake of nearby Lake Ray Roberts
 * Corry Schiermeyer, former United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications (acting) (2006–2007), Associate EPA Administrator for Public Affairs (2019-2020)
 * Gwyn Shea, former Texas secretary of state (2002–2003) and a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983–1993) from Irving; UNT regent since 2007
 * Drew Springer, Jr., state representative from District 68 in North Texas and the eastern South Plains
 * Barbara Staff, co-chairman of the 1976 Texas Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign

Pageantry

 * R'Bonney Gabriel, first Asian-American Miss Texas USA, winner of Miss USA 2022 and Miss Universe 2022