List of Florida State University people
This list of Florida State University people includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida State University (FSU). 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.[1] 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.[2][3] Since its founding in 1851, Florida State has graduated 167 classes of students and today has approximately 372,025 alumni.[4]
Over 15 FSU graduates have served in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, including senators Mel Martinez and Kay Hagan in addition to representatives Jason Altmire and Allen Boyd. FSU has 4 alumni that have been governors including Governors of Florida Charlie Crist and Reubin Askew and Governors of Maryland Parris Glendening and Larry Hogan. Over 12 alumni have been mayors, including Teresa Jacobs, Art Agnos and John Marks. congressional chiefs of staff Benjamin McKay and B. Dan Berger.[5][6] Foreign FSU politicians include Mokgweetsi Masisi, the current President of Botswana, Briton Mo Mowlam, and Vietnamese dissident Doan Viet Hoat. Among the many notable lawyers and jurists that have attended FSU are judges Susan Black and Ricky Polston, along with lawyers Bruce Jacob and John H. (Jack) Hickey. Notable military alumni include generals Frank Hagenbeck and Kenneth Minihan and U.S. Army officer Col. William Wood, the highest ranking United States military casualty in Iraq combat as well as administrator and former POW Orson Swindle.
Florida State University alumni have served as the executive leaders of such diverse and important institutions as the United States Treasury, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Hurricane Center, Pfizer, Raytheon, University of Michigan, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Military Academy, the State University System of Florida, and Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, FSU graduates have held leadership positions at the National Academy of Science, the United Nations, the United States Department of Defense, the New York Yankees, the Detroit Lions, the Los Angeles Raiders, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Orlando Magic, Bank of America, Scottrade, Sandia Laboratories, NOAA, Columbia University, Omnicom Group, Outback Steakhouse, and General Electric. Major corporations run by alumni include the Federal Reserve Bank, Texaco, Deloitte & Touche, Welch's, Flowers Foods, and the National Cancer Institute. Major regulatory bodies such as the General Services Administration, the Federal Reserve Bank and the American Council on Education have had Florida State University alumni at the helm in recent years.
Among the most notable figures in the entertainment industry who have attended or graduated from Florida State are musicians Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, Marcus Roberts, Jim Morrison, Scott Stapp, Luis Fonsi, and Mark Tremonti. Other entertainers include actors Burt Reynolds, Paul Gleason, Cheryl Hines, Traylor Howard and Robert Urich as well as directors Colleen Clinkenbeard and Greg Marcks; cartoonists Bud Grace and Doug Marlette; television director Chip Chalmers; television writer/producer Steven L. Sears; playwright and television writer/producer Alan Ball. In addition, WWE superstars Michelle McCool, Trenesha Biggers and Ron Simmons attended the University. Writers and journalists have included authors Charles Ghigna, Sharon Lechter and Dorothy Allison, reporters Stephanie Abrams and Jamie Dukes, sportscaster Lee Corso, and novelist Gwyn Hyman Rubio. Other notables include fitness guru Richard Simmons; ecologist Thomas Ray; astronauts Norman Thagard and Winston Scott; scientists Sylvia Earle, Anne Rudloe and Eric J. Barron; inventor Robert Holton. In 1996, Carla Gopher, daughter of FSU's Westcott award winner Louise Gopher, became the first Seminole to graduate as a Seminole.[7]
Academia and research
Educators
Academic administrators
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Lawrence G. Abele | Former Provost of Florida State University | [43] |
Debra D. Austin | Former Chancellor of the State University System of Florida and former Provost of FAMU | [44] |
Gordon C. Bond | Former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University | [45] |
Todd Britsch | Former Vice President at Brigham Young University, and currently emeritus professor of humanities | [46] |
Jered Carr | Current Director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs | [47] |
Thomas A. Desjardin | Current Commissioner of Education for the State of Maine | |
Steve Edwards | Former Deputy Provost of Florida State University | [48] |
Marc H. Ellis | Current Director of Jewish Studies at Baylor University | [49] |
Leonard Erickson | Current Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center | [50] |
Wayne Flynt | Writer, historian, and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University. | [51] |
Dwight Gustafson | Former Dean of Fine Arts at Bob Jones University | [52] |
Patrick C. Kennell | Current Director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University | [53] |
Hilal Khashan | Current Administrator at the American University of Beirut | [54] |
Aquila Berlas Kiani | Former President of the Pakistan Federation of University Women | |
Stephen MacNamara | Current Vice President at Florida State University | [55] |
Robert Millet | Current Emeritus Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University | [56] |
William L. Proctor | Former Athletic Director for Florida State University | [57] |
James C. Renick | Current Vice President for the American Council on Education | [58] |
Xavier Serra | Founder and Director of the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University | [59] |
Betty Siegel | Former President of the University System of Georgia | [60] |
Dale Thorn | PhD from FSU in higher education administration; vice president of academic affairs at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana; associate commissioner for higher education for the Louisiana Board of Regents, journalism professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge | [61] |
Professors and researchers
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Masood Ashraf Raja | Associate professor of postcolonial literature and theory at the University of North Texas. He is also the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, an open access journal that he founded in 2009. | [62][63][64][65][66] |
Virginia Spencer Carr | Biographer, professor at Columbia State University and Georgia State University. | |
Ricardo Dominguez | Artist, activist, and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego. He has been the subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he founded. | |
Skip Horack | Writer and professor. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University. | |
Fiona Kelleghan | Science fiction scholar and critic. Associate professor at the University of Miami. | |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | Academic, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater. | |
Margaret Keyes | American academic and heritage preserver. She was a professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation, best known for her work to preserve the Iowa Old Capitol Building. | [67] |
Leonard Skinner | American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. | |
David Ward-Steinman | Composer and music professor. Became Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at San Diego State University and was a professor at Indiana University. | [68][69] |
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch | Lawyer, elected member of the American Law Institute, currently the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia, and from 2017 to 2018, the Charles Hughes Kirbo Chair of Law at the same university. |
Science, space, technology, and math
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Brent A. Barlow | Former professor at Brigham Young University and author | [70] |
Eric J. Barron | Former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and former Dean of the College of Geosciences at the University of Texas-Austin | [71] |
Justin Brown | Professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington | |
Antonio Busalacchi Jr. | Current Chairman of World Climate Research Programme and a committee for the National Academy of Science, professor at the University of Maryland | [72][73] |
Suzy Covey | Pioneer in XML encoding, and librarian emerita at the George A. Smathers Libraries | |
Joseph W. Cullen | Former Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. | [74] |
Sylvia Earle | Former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | [75] |
Steve Edwards | Physicist | [76] |
Mostafa El-Sayed | Current Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Sciences | [77] |
Marc H. Ellis | Theologian and philosopher | [78] |
Leonard Erickson | Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center, and professor at IUPUI | |
Jaime Escalante | Former Bolivian educator | |
A. Wilson Greene | Civil War historian and author; former executive director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier | [79] |
Carolyn S. Griner | Former Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | [80] |
Steven Hebert | Nephrologist | [81] |
Robert A. Holton | Scientist who created Taxol, current professor at Florida State University | [82] |
Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh | Food scientist and fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists | [83] |
Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz | Experimental physicist, early pioneer in developing Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program | [84] |
Dan Jones | Professor of English studies at University of Central Florida | [85] |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | Academic and writer, and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | [86] |
Margaret Keyes | Scholar in heritage conservation | [87] |
Hilal Khashan | Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut | [88] |
Jim Kuypers | Communications expert, professor at Virginia Tech | [89] |
William Leap | Anthropologist and professor at American University | [90] |
Deborah Mash | Professor of neurology, and Director of the Brain Endowment Bank at the University of Miami | [91] |
Warren P. Mason | Electrical engineer and physicist, founder of the field of distributed-element circuits | [92] |
Charles T. Meide | Underwater and maritime archaeologist | |
Jason Moore | Translational bioinformatics scientist and human geneticist | [93] |
Anthony Nicholls | English physicist | [94] |
Harold O'Neil | Experimental psychologist, and currently a professor at the University of Southern California | [95] |
Orrin H. Pilkey | Geologist, and Professor Emeritus at Duke University | [96] |
Alan R. Price | Former Associate Director for Investigative Oversight for the National Institute of Health | [97] |
Thomas S. Ray | Ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life | |
Dušan Repovš | Slovenian mathematician, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia for Science | [98] |
Matthew Barnett Robinson | Criminologist | [99] |
Landon T. Ross | Environmental biologist | [100] |
Anne Rudloe | Marine biologist, writer, environmentalist, cofounder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award Winner | [101][102] |
James A. Shymansky | Science educator | [103] |
Dewey Smith | Professional aquanaut and underwater diver | [104] |
Gregg Steinberg | Sports psychologist | |
Nyayapathi Swamy | Mathematical physicist | [105] |
Maria Zemankova | Computer scientist, created the theory of Fuzzy Relational Database System, recipient of the SIGMOD Contributions Award | [106] |
Astronauts
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Winston Scott | Former NASA astronaut | [107] |
Norman Thagard | Former NASA astronaut and currently a tenured professor of engineering at Florida State University | [108] |
Meteorology
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Stephanie Abrams | Meteorologist, The Weather Channel | [109] |
Neil Frank | Former Director of the National Hurricane Center | [110] |
Stanley Goldenberg | Current meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | [111] |
Thomas Grazulis | Meteorologist, worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission | [112] |
Janice Huff | Meteorologist, currently works for WNBC, and the Today Show | [113] |
Richard Knabb | Current Director of the National Hurricane Center | [114] |
Jennifer Lopez | Meteorologist, currently works for The Weather Channel | |
Max Mayfield | Former Director of the National Hurricane Center | [115] |
Bryan Norcross | Meteorologist, currently a hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel | |
Bill Proenza | Former Director of the National Hurricane Center and current Director of the National Weather Service's Southern Region | [116] |
Dallas Raines | Meteorologist, currently works for KABC-TV | [117] |
George Winterling | Former meteorologist with WJXT | [118] |
Rhodes Scholars
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Frederick William Buchholz | 1905 Rhodes Scholar | |
Caroline Alexander | 1976 Rhodes Scholar | |
Garrett Johnson | 2006 Rhodes Scholar | |
Joseph O'Shea | 2007 Rhodes Scholar | |
Myron Rolle | 2009 Rhodes Scholar | [119] |
Architecture, engineering and building industry
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Lex Hester | Consolidation architect, former chief administrative officer in Orlando, Broward County and Jacksonville | |
Margaret Keyes | American academic and heritage preserver. She was a professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation, best known for her work to preserve the Iowa Old Capitol Building. | [67] |
Arts and humanities
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Martin Eichinger | American sculptor. Deemed one of the few 'Living Masters' by the Art Renewal Center, Eichinger is known for his bronze narrative sculptures. | [120] |
Alyson Fox | Artist and illustrator | |
Bud Grace | Cartoonist, who has worked on the comic strip Ernie, whose title was later changed to Piranha Club in the United States. He also drew the Babs and Aldo comic strip for King under the pseudonym Buddy Valentine. | |
Masumi Hayaski | Photographer and Fulbright fellow | |
James F. Hutchinson | Painter, member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame | |
Salvador Miranda | Church historian and librarian | |
Ted Studebaker | Christian missionary to Vietnam | |
Lynne Taetzsch | Abstract painter and writer |
Business and finance
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Sandon Berg | Film producer, actor, and screenwriter; co-founder of the United Gay Network | |
Sara Blakely | President and founder of Spanx; judge on ABC's former reality television series American Inventor | |
Bob Bowman | Current CEO of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club; mentor to Michael Phelps | |
Jose Ceballos | Current Director for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association | |
Timothy Cole | Executive Vice President for Sales of Del Monte Foods | |
Todd Combs | Hedge fund manager who has been tapped as a potential successor of Warren Buffett as the chief investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway | |
R. Clarke Cooper | Executive Director of Log Cabin Republicans | |
Todd Crannell | Current President of Q2 Sports and Entertainment | |
Meg Crofton | Current President, the Walt Disney World Resort | |
John Culver | Current Executive Vice President of Starbucks | |
James Dahl | Former Senior Vice President of Drexel Burnham Lambert | |
Jeff Galloway | Current CEO of Galloway Productions | |
Michael Genevie | Current executive director of the Abbeville Opera House | |
James W. Grant | Former Executive Vice President of Worldwide Chemical; former U.S. Representative | |
Chuck Hardwick | Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc. | |
Gordon S. Holder | Currently a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy | |
Glenda Hope | Head of the San Francisco Network Ministries, and minister with the Presbyterian Church | |
Gary Huff | Former CFO for the Los Angeles Raiders, and also worked with the IBM Corporation | |
Patricia Ireland | Former President of the National Organization for Women, and writer | |
Manuel H. Johnson | Current Co-Chairman of Johnson Smick International; former Vice chairman of the board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank | |
Donald E. Kiernan | Former CFO of Southwestern Bell Corporation | |
Richard Legendre | Current Vice President of CF Montreal | |
Daryl Logullo | Marketing expert | |
Marjorie Matthews | Former bishop for the United Methodist Church | |
Martin Mayhew | American football player and executive | |
Marc Middleton | Current CEO and founder of Growing Bolder | |
Virginia Montes | Former Secretary of the National Organization for Women, and civil rights activist | |
Jane Mouton | Management theorist | |
Gregory Parkes | Current bishop for the Catholic Church | |
Tom Petway | Current minority partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and chairman of the board for Zurich Insurance Services | |
Bobby Pittman | Current Vice President with African Development Bank | |
Richard W. Rahn | Current Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth | |
Gary Rogers | Former vice-chairman and Executive Officer of General Electric | |
Jeff Rosenthal | Current President and CEO of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. | |
Peter F. Romero | Current CEO of Experior Advisory, and former United States Ambassador | |
Robert Sanborn | Current President and CEO of Children at Risk | |
Gary A. Sanders | Former CEO of Wackenhut | |
Harry Sargeant III | Owner of International Oil Trading Company; billionaire | |
Bob Sasser | Current CEO of Dollar Tree Inc. | |
Jeffrey Stoops | Current CEO of SBA Communications | |
Brian Sussman | Current Managing Partner of 34 Pictures Entertainment | |
Orson Swindle | Former Executive Director of United We Stand America, and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce | |
Carlos O. Torano | Current President of Toraño Cigars and Central America Tobacco | |
Irita Van Doren | Former editor of the New York Herald Tribune | |
Mike Vasilinda | Former executive with Florida's News Channel | |
Woody Woodward | Former general manager for the New York Yankees | |
Ed Young | Founder and Senior Pastor for Fellowship Church | |
R. Eugene Taylor | Chairman and CEO Capital Bank Financial Corp.; former Vice Chairman of Bank of America |
Entertainment
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Valorie Burton | Life coach, author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. Author of Listen to Your Life, What's Really Holding You Back?, Rich Minds, Rich Rewards She is the founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute (CaPP). | |
Matt Chapman | American writer, voice actor, director, producer, and composer. Best known as the co-creator of the animated series Homestar Runner. | |
Colleen Clinkenbeard | Director, writer, and producer for the English-language dub of Fullmetal Alchemist | |
William A. Dawson | American football player and assistant coach for Marshall University. He was nicknamed "Red" for his red hair. Coach who was portrayed by Matthew Fox in the film We Are Marshall | |
Memphis Garrett | Runner-up in Big Brother 10 | |
Courtney Hansen | Syndicated columnist, TV personality, and model | |
Allan Havey | HBO stand-up comic and host | |
Ron Hazelton | Home improvement television personality | |
Barry Horowitz | Former wrestler with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling | |
Kevin Kelly | Professional wrestling manager, pundit, sportscaster and ring announcer | |
Jonathan King | Producer and Vice President for Focus Features, Dreamgirls, I, Robot, and Finding Forrester | |
Bert Kreischer | Stand-up comedian and television host; real-life inspiration for the movie Van Wilder | |
Michael James Nelson | Comedian, writer, producer, The Bachelor, MTV Movie Awards, Betty White's Off Their Rockers | |
Heather Parcells | Dancer, singer, and actress | |
Catherine Joy Perry | Model, actress, dancer, singer, and professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under the ring name Lana | |
Gabrielle Reece | Sports presenter, former fashion model, and professional volleyball player | |
Jenn Sterger | Model, television personality, and former online columnist for Sports Illustrated. She was an original member of the FSU Cowgirls. |
Film
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Josephine Abady | Director and producer | [121] |
Alan Ball | Academy Award-winning screenwriter and creator of Six Feet Under, True Blood, American Beauty | [122] |
Wes Ball | Director,The Maze Runner | |
Ricou Browning | Film director, actor, producer and underwater cinematographer | [123] |
Kat Candler | Award-winning independent filmmaker | |
Steven Conrad | Screenwriter, The Pursuit of Happyness | |
Ron J. Friedman | Screenwriter, films Brother Bear, Chicken Little, and Open Season | |
Barry Jenkins | Academy Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter. Film director, known for Medicine for Melancholy and Moonlight | |
Christine Lahti | Academy Award-winning director, and actress, Chicago Hope, Jack & Bobby | |
Brad Linaweaver | Screenwriter and film producer, actor, science fiction writer | |
Jamie Linden | Screenwriter, Money Monster, We Are Marshall | |
James Laxton | Cinematographer, Moonlight | |
Greg Marcks | Film director and screenwriter, 11:14 and Lector | |
Joi McMillon | Film editor, Moonlight | |
Lauren Miller | Actress and screenwriter | |
David Robert Mitchell | Film director, It Follows | |
Aaron Moorhead | Film director, The Endless, V/H/S: Viral (segment "Bonestorm") | |
Nancy Oliver | Screenwriter | |
Adele Romanski | Film producer, Moonlight | |
Nat Sanders | Film editor | |
Steven L. Sears | Television producer and screenwriter; author of novels and graphic novels | |
Robin Swicord | Screenwriter and film director |
Actors
Government, law, and public policy
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Chris Anyanwu | Current Senator for the Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Imo | |
Mohammed Nadir Atash | Former Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Transport for Afghanistan | |
Michael Berenbaum | Current Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | |
David Bibb | Former Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration, served as Acting Administrator for a short period | |
Richard Blankenship | Former United States Ambassador to the Bahamas | |
Jose Ceballos | Government Affairs advocate in the Democratic Party | |
William D. Clay, Jr. | Current special adviser to the United Nations | |
Bradley Cooper | Former Minister of Recreation for the Bahamas; Olympic discus thrower | |
Pearl Long Cullen | First woman to hold a constitutional office in the state of Florida | |
Charles J. Cunningham | Former Director of the Defense Security Service; former Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force | |
Val Demings | Former Chief of the Orlando Police Department | |
Richard L. Dugger | Former Secretary for the Florida Department of Corrections | |
Carl W. Ford Jr. | Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and head of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research | |
Mark Gilbert | Former United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa | |
Eleanor J. Hill | Former Inspector General to the U.S. Department of Defense | |
Benedikt Jóhannesson[124] | Icelandic Minister of Finance, Member of the Althing, and Founder of Reform Party | |
Manuel H. Johnson | Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury | |
LeAlan Jones | Former United States Senate candidate in Illinois; journalist | |
Mark E. Kaplan | Former Secretary Florida Department of Transportation and Chief of Staff to Governor Jeb Bush | |
Brian Kelley | Former CIA officer | |
Jeff Kottkamp | Former Lt. Governor of Florida | |
Al Lamberti | Current Sheriff of Broward County, Florida | |
Richard Legendre | Former member of National Assembly of Quebec; former Quebec Minister of Sports; former professional tennis player | |
Mel Martinez | Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | |
Mokgweetsi Masisi | Current President of Botswana | |
Harold O'Neil | Former Director with the United States Department of Defense | |
Bobby Pittman | Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs to the Bush Administration | |
Aleksandar Popović | Current Serbian Minister of Energetics | |
Roger A. Powell | Retired major general in the Australian Army and a Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations | |
Pete Romero | Former U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador, and the Assistant Secretary of State | |
Ion Sancho | Current Supervisor of Elections for Leon County, Florida, gained notoriety in the 2000 presidential recount | |
Frank Sanchez | Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the Department of Commerce | |
Dana Seetahal | Current member of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago | |
James C. Smith | Former Florida Attorney General; former Florida Secretary of State; current Chairman of the Florida State University Board of Trustees | |
Orson Swindle | Former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission | |
Jim Towey | Former Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives | |
Vic Vickers | Former United States Senate candidate in Alaska | |
Doan Viet Hoat | Vietnamese academic and dissident, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award | [125] |
Dale Watson | Former Assistant Director for the Counterterrorism Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; current consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton |
United States Congress
Governors
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Reubin O'Donovan Askew | Former Governor of Florida, member of the Florida Senate, United States Trade Representative, and former candidate for President of the United States | |
Charlie Crist | Former Governor of Florida; former Florida Attorney General; Florida Secretary of Education; member of the Florida Senate | |
Parris N. Glendening | Former Governor of Maryland and former city councilman in the town of Hyattsville, Maryland | |
Larry Hogan | Current Governor of Maryland |
State Senators
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Dempsey J. Barron | Former President of the Florida Senate | |
Dennis K. Baxley | Current member of the Florida Senate and former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Oscar Braynon | Current member of the Florida Senate and former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Michael Brennan | Former member of the Maine Senate and former member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
W. D. Childers | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Charles S. Dean, Sr. | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Gary Farmer | Current member of the Florida Senate | |
Steven Geller | Former member for the Florida Senate | |
Audrey Gibson | Current member of the Florida Senate, and former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mike Haridopolos | Former President of the Florida Senate | |
Ken Jenne | Former member for the Florida Senate | |
Jim King | Former President of the Florida Senate | |
Alfred Lawson, Jr. | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
John McKay | Former President of the Florida Senate | |
Robert W. McKnight | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Bill Montford | Current member of the Florida Senate | |
Steve Oelrich | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Bobby Powell | Current member of the Florida Senate | |
Chris Smith | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Geraldine F. Thompson | Former member of the Florida State and former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
John E. Thrasher | Former member of the Florida Senate, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives | |
J. Alex Villalobos | Former member of the Florida Senate | |
Dana Young | Current member of the Florida Senate | |
State Representatives
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Martha Alexander | Former member of the North Carolina General Assembly | |
J. Keith Arnold | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Frank Artiles | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Robert Barton | Former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
Halsey Beshears | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Dennis Baxley | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives, current member of the Florida Senate | |
Leonard L. Bembry | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Allan Bense | Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mack Bernard | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Jim Boyd | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Cynthia M. Chestnut | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Marti Coley | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Neil Combee | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Kimberly Daniels | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Carl J. Domino | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Byron Donalds | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Terry Fields | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Erik Fresen | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Matt Gaetz | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives, current member of the United States House of Representatives | |
Greg Gay | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Joe Geller | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Tom Goodson | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Tom Grady | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Joe Gruters | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Chris Hart IV | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Adam Hasner | Former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives | |
Deborah J. Horan | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Clay Ingram | Current member of the Florida House of Representative | |
Evan Jenne | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Bolley Johnson | Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Everett A. Kelly | Former member of the Florida House of Representative | |
Kurt Kelly | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Marcelo Llorente | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mark Mahon | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Anne McGihon | Former member of the Colorado House of Representatives | |
Sharon J. Merchant | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Larry Metz | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Chesley V. Morton | Former member of the Georgia House of Representatives | [126] |
Jimmy Patronis | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Juan-Carlos Planas | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mel Ponder | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Elizabeth W. Porter | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Holly Raschein | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Dan Raulerson | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Curtis B. Richardson | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Beryl D. Roberts | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Ray Sansom | Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Michael Scionti | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Ken Sorensen | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Ross Spano | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Beverly Burnsed Spencer | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
John K. Stargel | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Jason Steele | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Jim K. Tillman | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Trey Traviesa | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Carlos Trujillo | Current member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Leslie Waters | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mike Weinstein | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Wayne Westmark | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
John Wood | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives | |
Dana Young | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives, current member of the Florida Senate |
Robert W. McKnight
Former member of the Florida House of Representatives
Mayors
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Art Agnos | Former Mayor of San Francisco, California | |
Rick Baker | Former Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida | |
Michael F. Brennan | Current Mayor of Portland, Maine | |
Rich Crotty | Former Mayor of Orange County, Florida | |
Mike Halfacre | Current Mayor in New Jersey and attorney | |
Frank Hibbard | Current Mayor of Clearwater, Florida | |
Teresa Jacobs | Current Mayor of Orange County, Florida | |
Ken Keechl | Current Mayor of Broward County, Florida | |
David T. Kennedy | Former Mayor of Miami, Florida | |
Scott Maddox | Former Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, former Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Florida | |
John Marks | Former Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida | |
Jack McLean | Former Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida | |
Morgan McPherson | Current Mayor of Key West, Florida |
Law
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Jose Baez | Lead attorney for Casey Anthony in the Death of Caylee Anthony trial | |
Thomas E. Baker | Attorney, writer, and currently a professor at Florida International University College of Law | |
Barry Cohen | Personal injury and criminal attorney | |
Angela Corey | Former State Attorney for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit Court | |
Benjamin Crump | Lead attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin | |
Jerry Demings | Sheriff of Orange County Florida | |
Michael Feiler | Trial lawyer, former president of Miami-Dade Trial Lawyers Association, Chair of Florida Bar Civil Trial Certification Committee | |
Mike Halfacre | Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control | |
Tim Howard | Current Director of the Northeastern University's Executive Doctorate Program in Law and Policy; former Assistant Attorney General of Florida | Michael W Jackson
Alabama District Attorney, Prosecuted landmark 1965 Civil Rights Case |
Bruce Jacob | Former Assistant Attorney General for Florida, prosecuted in Gideon v. Wainwright. | |
Craig McCarthy | Attorney on a number of high-profile cases and candidate for the Florida House of Representatives | |
Mark O'Mara | Defense attorney | |
Marlins Man | Nickname of Laurence Leavy, attorney and well known sports fan | |
Gary Pajcic | Attorney and philanthropist | |
Daryl Parks | Attorney and former president of the National Bar Association |
Judges
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
John Antoon | Current United States District Judge | |
Kenneth B. Bell | Former Florida Supreme Court Justice | |
Susan H. Black | Current U.S. Court of Appeals Judge | |
Susan C. Bucklew | Current United States District Judge | |
Raoul G. Cantero, III | Former Florida Supreme Court Justice | |
Lacey A. Collier | Current United States District Judge | |
Rudolph Contreras | Current United States District Judge | |
Gerald B. Cope, Jr. | Former judge for the Florida Third District Court of Appeal | |
W. Thomas Cumbie | Current Senior Judge for the United States Air Force; Colonel | |
Paul Danielson | Current Justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court | |
George Greer | Judge; presided over the Terri Schiavo case; presided over Hulk Hogan's divorce case in January 2008 | |
Kim Hammond | Current circuit court judge, and former football player for the Florida State Seminoles | |
Robert L. Hinkle | Current United States District Judge | |
James E. Joanos | Former judge for the Florida First District Court of Appeal | |
David L. Middlebrooks | Former United States District Judge | |
Kevin Michael Moore | Current United States District Judge | |
Ricky Polston | Former Chief Justice for the Florida Supreme Court | [127] |
Mary Stenson Scriven | Current United States District Judge |
Journalism and media
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Cathy Areu | News analyst and as of 2018 she is the "Liberal Sherpa" on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight. She is also the founder and publisher of Catalina magazine. | |
Doug Bandow | Political writer and former columnist and fellow for the Cato Institute | [128] |
Anthony Cormier | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism | [129] |
Dayle Hinman | FBI-trained criminal profiler | |
Anne Hull | National staff writer for the Washington Post | |
LeAlan Jones | Journalist | |
Danny Kanell | Currently the host of ESPNU's late-night sports and humor show UNITE, and former professional football player with the NFL | |
Eric Lyman | Journalist | |
Mike McQueen | Journalist | |
Carol Marbin Miller | Senior Investigative Reporter, Miami Herald | |
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro | Practicing American attorney and nationally recognized investigative journalist. | |
Peter Tom Willis | Former commentator for the Florida State Seminoles |
Anchors and correspondents
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Dan Bakkedahl | Correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show | |
Jackie Bange | Anchor and reporter for CW affiliate and cable superstation WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois | |
Moni Basu | Former CNN reporter, former reporter and Assistant International Editor with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former National Desk news editor with The Tallahassee Democrat, and former editor at the Florida Flambeau | |
Shannon Bream | Correspondent on the Fox News Channel, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. Also, while attending Liberty University she won the beauty-pageant title Miss Virginia in 1990. She participated in the Miss America 1991 pageant. Her scholarship award covered much of her education. In 1995 was Miss Florida USA. | |
Max Bretos | Current sports anchor for ESPN | |
Diem Brown | Entertainment reporter for Sky Living and a recurring cast member on MTV's reality television series The Challenge | |
Lee Corso | Sports broadcaster for ESPN, starred on College GameDay since its inception, and was the former head coach of Louisville and the Indiana University | |
Donna Deegan | Current weekday anchor for WTLV/WJXX | |
Arnold Díaz | Correspondent on WNYW-TV in New York City | |
Jamie Dukes | Sports broadcaster for ESPN and host of Put Up Your Dukes | |
Dave Neal | American sportscaster for ESPN | |
Gary Parris | Current commentator for the University of Central Florida | |
Stephen Parry | Commentator for the BBC Sport | |
Eduardo Pérez | Current commentator for ESPN's Baseball Tonight | |
Cecile Reynaud | Commentator for Fox Sports Net, the Sunshine Network, and ESPN | |
Chris Rix | Current football analyst for ABC and Fox Sports Radio | |
Spencer Ross | Former sports broadcaster | |
Danyelle Sargent | Current anchor for ESPN | |
Gayle Sierens | Current news anchor, WFLA-TV, Tampa | |
Bailey White | Current commentator for the NPR program All Things Considered | |
Matt Yocum | NASCAR reporter and sportscaster |
Literature, writing, and translation
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Dorothy Allison | Writer | [130] |
Jason Altmire | Political author and columnist | [131] |
John Bensko | Poet | [132] |
Michael Berenbaum | Writer and former Professor of Theology | [133] |
Matt Bondurant | (PhD) Writer, The Wettest County in the World | [134] |
Christopher Buehlman | Playwright, poet and comedian | [135] |
Anthony J. Bryant | Author and editor | [136] |
Lela E. Buis | Author, poet and playwright | |
Jesse Bullington | Author, Enterprise of Death, Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart | |
Jessica Burkhart | Author, Canterwood Crest | |
Brigitte Byrd | French-born poet and author | |
Doug Bandow | Political writer and former columnist and fellow for the Cato Institute | [128] |
Virginia Spencer Carr | Biographer, professor at Columbia State University and Georgia State University. | |
Sandra M. Castillo | Poet | |
Ryan Van Cleave | Writer, creative writing instructor | |
John Crawford | Author of the Iraq War memoir The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell | |
Thomas A. Desjardin | Historian and author | |
Jeff Galloway | Author and Olympian | |
Charles Ghigna | Children's author and poet | |
John Earl Haynes | American historian who worked as a specialist in 20th-century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. | |
Rebecca Hazelton | Award-winning poet, editor, and critic | |
Skip Horack | Writer and professor. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University. | |
Stephen Graham Jones | Author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction | |
Juan Gutiérrez | Colombian author | |
Fiona Kelleghan | Science fiction scholar and critic. Associate professor at the University of Miami. | |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | Academic, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater. | |
David Kirby | Guggenheim Fellowship (English) | |
Arthur Kurzweil | Author, educator, editor, writer, and publisher | |
Sharon Lechter | Author, Rich Dad Poor Dad | |
D. S. Lliteras | Author | |
Jean Lorrah | Science fiction novelist and contributor to Star Trek series | |
Richard Lukas | Author and historian | |
Brooke Magnanti | Research scientist, blogger and writer who goes by the pen name Belle de Jour | |
Charles Martin | Author | |
Jenna McCarthy | Author | |
Jen McClanaghan | Poet | |
Janisse Ray | Writer, naturalist, and environmental activist | |
Emilie Richards | Author of romance and mystery novels | |
Jordan S. Rubin | Novelist | |
Gwyn Hyman Rubio | Novelist | |
Linnea Sinclair | Award-winning writer of science fiction romance, fantasy romance and paranormal romance | |
Jeff Shaara | Novelist | |
Art Smith | Chef and author | |
Jane Springer | Award-winning poet | |
Leon Stokesbury | Poet | |
Hunter S. Thompson | Author and journalist | |
Ann VanderMeer | Editor of Weird Tales magazine and several anthologies of fantasy and sci-fi literature; wife of author Jeff VanderMeer |
Pulitzer Prize winners
The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Adam Johnson | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, The Orphan Master's Son | |
Doug Marlette | Cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize; novelist who wrote The Bridge and Magic Time; former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Kathleen Parker | Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, The Washington Post | |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | Composer and the first woman Pulitzer Prize winner |
Military
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Norma Elaine Brown | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
John Crawford | Former Specialist in the U.S. Army National Guard; Iraq War veteran; author of the memoir The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell | |
Charles J. Cunningham | Retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force | |
Jay Garner | Retired general in the U.S. Army and the former director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq | |
William H. Ginn Jr. | Retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force | |
Franklin L. Hagenbeck | Active lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and the current Commandant of the U.S. Military Academy | |
Mark R. Hamilton | Retired major general in the U.S. Army | |
Winfield S. Harpe | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
Richard S. Heyser | Pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis; retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force | |
Gordon S. Holder | Retired vice admiral in the U.S. Navy | |
J. Adrian Jackson | Retired rear admiral and Naval Aviator in the U.S. Navy | |
Paul David Miller | Retired admiral and Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy; current Chairman of the Alliant Techsystems company | |
Kenneth Minihan | Retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force; former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) | |
Polly A. Peyer | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
John L. Piotrowski | Retired general in the U.S. Air Force | |
Steven H. Ratti | Active rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard | |
Michael K. Sheridan | Retired brigadier general in the U.S. Marine Corps | |
Scott Speicher | Captain in the U.S. Navy pilot, who was shot down in the Persian Gulf War | |
Lawrence W. Steinkraus | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
Paul E. Stein | Retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force | |
William D. Sullivan | Active vice admiral in the U.S. Navy | |
LeRoy W. Svendsen, Jr. | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
H. Marshal Ward | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force | |
W. Thomas West | Retired major general in the U.S. Air Force |
Music
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Lily Afshar | First woman in the world to be awarded a Doctorate of Music in guitar performance, and musician | [137] |
Cristian Amigo | Chilean composer, improviser, guitarist, and ethnomusicologist | |
Kim Barlow | Canadian folk music singer-songwriter | |
Sam Beam | Sole member of Iron & Wine | |
Ryland Blackinton | Guitarist for the band Cobra Starship | |
Brenda Boozer | An internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano who had an active career performing in operas and concerts around the world and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 11 seasons. | |
Khari Cain | Record producer, engineer and composer. Also known by his stage name Needlz. | |
Ricardo Cobo | Colombian guitar player | |
Rita Coolidge | Grammy Award-winning singer | |
Frank Cooper | Pianist, conductor, founder of the Festival of Neglected Romantic Music, Research Professor of Music at the University of Miami | |
Glenn Crytzer | Composer, guitarist, banjoist, and singer | |
Dimitri Diatchenko | Actor and musician | |
Jonny Diaz | Contemporary Christian artist | |
Ernst von Dohnányi | composer and conductor of classical music | |
Virgil Roger du Pont III | Vocals for The Crüxshadows | |
Luis Fonsi | Singer and songwriter | |
Thomas G. Glenn | Canadian opera singer | |
Marvin Goldstein | Professional pianist and performer | |
John Driskell Hopkins | Member of the Zac Brown Band | |
Sarah Hutchings | Composer | |
Brian Kelley | Country singer, Florida Georgia Line | |
Frank Kelley | Tenor and faculty member at Boston University | |
Ryan Key | Vocals and guitar player for the band Yellowcard | |
Peter Kurau | Principal Horn of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; professor at the Eastman School of Music | |
Justin Long | Guitar player for No Address | |
Sean Mackin | Vocals and violin player for the band Yellowcard | |
Martha Mier | Composer, "Seventh Street Blues" and "Jackson Street Blues" | |
Stephen Montague | American composer, conductor and recording artist living in London | |
David Morris | Vocals for Cold Water Army | |
Jim Morrison | Singer and songwriter for The Doors | |
Jake Owen | Country singer | |
Rosephanye Powell | Choral composer, singer, professor, and researcher | |
R.LUM.R | Alternative R&B artist and classical guitarist | |
Daniell Revenaugh | Composer and pianist | |
Marcus Roberts | Jazz pianist | |
Alex Sadkin | Record producer and saxophonist | |
Leonard Skinner | American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. | |
Morgan Sorne | Singer-songwriter and multi-media artist | |
Tori Sparks | Singer and songwriter | |
Scott Stapp | Singer for the band Creed | |
William Takacs | Principal trumpet for the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra; professor at West Texas A&M University | |
Mark Tremonti | Guitarist for the bands Creed and Alter Bridge | |
Butch Trucks | Drummer, The Allman Brothers Band | |
Charles Turner | Jazz trumpeter | |
Will Turpin | Bassist for Collective Soul | |
Nancy Van de Vate | Composer | |
Balint Vazsonyi | Hungarian pianist | |
T. Edward Vives | Trombonist and composer | |
David Ward-Steinman | Composer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra | |
Stella Zambalis | Spinto soprano | |
Richard Zarou | Contemporary composer of concert and film music |
Pageantry
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Valorie Burton | Miss Black Texas USA | |
Tara Dawn Holland Christensen | Miss America 1997, Miss Kansas 1996, and National Sweetheart 1995 | |
Shannon Bream | Miss Virginia 1990, Miss Florida USA 1995 | |
Tiffany Fallon | Miss Georgia USA 2001 | |
Lea Mack | Miss Ohio 1994, and motivational speaker | |
Shauna Pender | Miss Florida 2003 | |
Toni-Ann Singh | Miss World 2019 | |
Kylie Williams | Miss Florida 2007 |
Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss Jamaica World and Miss World in 2019.
Social Reform
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Leslie Cochran | Peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. Cochran was known in Austin as Leslie. Cochran was considered the man who personified "Keep Austin Weird". | [138][139][140][141] |
Ricardo Dominguez | Artist, activist, and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego. He has been the subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he founded. |
Sports
Baseball
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Bruce Bochy | Former baseball manager for the San Francisco Giants and former manager of the San Diego Padres | |
Ron Fraser | Former baseball coach for the University of Miami | |
Dick Howser | Former baseball coach for the Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, and Florida State University | |
Terry Kennedy | Former baseball coach for the Iowa Cubs | |
Tony La Russa | Former baseball manager for the Chicago White Sox, Oakland A's, and St. Louis Cardinals | |
Carlos Lezcano | Current baseball coach for the Lake Elsinore Storm | |
Mike Martin | Former baseball coach for Florida State University | |
Larry Rothschild | Former baseball player for the Detroit Tigers and baseball coach for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, now pitching coach of the San Diego Padres |
Basketball
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|
Dave Cowens | Former basketball coach for the Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Sky | |
Hugh Durham | Former basketball coach for the University of Georgia and Florida State University | |
Cliff Ellis | Former basketball coach for Clemson University and Auburn University | |
Tom Nissalke | Former basketball coach for the Utah Jazz, Cleveland Cavaliers, and San Antonio Spurs |
- Braian Angola (born 1994), Colombian basketball player who plays for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Isaiah Swann (born 1985), professional basketball player
Football
Other
Alumni | Notability | Reference |
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Zach Banks | Racing driver | |
Bob Bowman | Former swimming coach for the University of Michigan, and mentor to Michael Phelps | |
John Cernuto | Professional poker player | |
Kathy Flores | Current head coach for the United States women's national rugby union team | |
Cecile Reynaud | Former volleyball coach for Florida State University, current analyst for ESPN |
Notable faculty and staff
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Florida State University presidents
President | Year | Reference | |
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George Edgar | 1887–1892 | ||
Alvin Lewis | 1892–1897 | ||
Albert A. Murphree | 1897–1909, subsequently president of the University of Florida, 1909–1927 | ||
Edward Conradi | 1909–1947 | ||
Doak S. Campbell | 1947–1957 | ||
Robert M. Strozier | 1957–1960[142] | ||
Talbot D'Alemberte | 1994–2003 | ||
T. K. Wetherell | 2003–2009, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives | ||
Eric J. Barron | 2009–2014 | ||
John E. Thrasher | 2014–present |
Faculty winners of major honors
Name | Notability | Reference |
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Lawrence G. Abele | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Biological Science) | |
Roy Baumeister | Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher (Psychology/Psychiatry) | |
Konrad E. Bloch | 1964 Nobel Prize in Medicine[143] | |
James M. Buchanan | 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics[144] | |
Robert Olen Butler | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Guggenheim Fellowship (English) | |
Donald Caspar | National Academy of Sciences (Biophysics); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); Guggenheim Fellowship (Biological Science) | |
Donald A. Crosby | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colorado State University | |
Timothy Cross | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chemistry) | |
Naresh Dalal | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chemistry) | |
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac | 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics,[145] | |
Dean Falk | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Anthropology) | |
Carlisle Floyd | 1956 Guggenheim Fellowship (Music) | |
Lev Gor'kov | National Academy of Sciences (Physics) | |
Max Gunzburger | 2008 SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics | |
Frances James | American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology); American Association for the Advancement of Science (Biology) | |
Thomas Joiner | Guggenheim Fellowship (Psychology) | |
Michael Kasha | National Academy of Sciences (Chemistry); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); Guggenheim Fellowship (Physical Chemistry) | |
John Kelsay | Guggenheim Fellowship (Religion) | |
David V Kerns Jr | National Academy of Engineering 2013 Gordon Prize | |
Sir Harold W. Kroto | 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry;[146] National Academy of Sciences (Chemistry); Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher (Chemistry) | |
David Larbalestier | National Academy of Engineering (Superconducting Materials) | |
Alan Marshall | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chemistry) | |
Robert Sanderson Mulliken | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[147][148] | |
Simon Ostrach | National Academy of Engineering (Space Science/Mechanical Engineering); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Space Science/Mechanical Engineering) | |
Jill Quadagno | Guggenheim Fellowship (Sociology) | |
Michael Ruse | Guggenheim Fellowship (Philosophy); American Association for the Advancement of Science (Philosophy) | |
Shridhar Sathe | Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher (Agricultural Sciences) | |
John Robert Schrieffer | 1972 Nobel Prize Physics[149] | |
Melvin Stern | National Academy of Sciences (Geophysics); American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Astronomy and Earth Sciences); Guggenheim Fellowship (Oceanography) | |
Gary Taylor | Guggenheim Fellowship (English) | |
R. Jay Turner | Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher (Social Sciences) | |
Sherwood Wise | American Association for the Advancement of Science (Geological Sciences) | |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | Pulitzer Prize for Music; American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Visual and Performing Arts); Guggenheim Fellowship (Music) |
Other notable faculty
Faculty | Notability | Reference |
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Abdus Suttar Khan | Chemist and aerospace researcher | |
Carrie Ann Baade | Painter | |
Richard Burgin | Violinist and concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra | |
Yvonne Ciannella | Coloratura soprano | |
Dean Falk | Lead scientist in research team mapping the brain shape of the LB1 Hobbit | |
Gerald R. Ferris | Scholar of management and psychology | |
Charles Figley | Traumatologist, American Psychological Association Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow | |
Robert Gellately | Historian known for research on Nazi-era Germany and the Cold War | |
H. Winter Griffith | Physician and author of many popular books on health and medicine | |
Paul G. Halpern | Historian known for research and documentary publications on the naval history of the First World War | |
Barbara Hamby | Poet in residence | |
William H. Heard | Expert on freshwater mollusks | |
Toussaint Hocevar | Economic historian | |
Randall Holcombe | Co-founder of Buchanan–Holcombe Branch of economists,[150] past President of the Society for Development of Austrian Economics[151] and the Public Choice Society[152] | |
Robert A. Holton | Inventor of the synthetic process for making taxol | |
R. Mark Isaac | Scholar of experimental economics | |
Kelly Jemison | Geologist specializing in Antarctic diatoms | |
Frederick L. Jenks | 2002 TESOL Heinle & Heinle Excellence in Teaching Award | |
Gary Kleck | Criminologist known for empirical work on guns and violence | |
Vadim Komkov | Mathematician and physicist | |
T. N. Krishnamurti | Recipient of the Carl Gustav Rossby Medal from the American Meteorological Society and developer of the FSU "Superensemble" hurricane prediction model | |
Justin Leiber | Philosopher and science fiction writer | |
Dan Markel | Law professor known for work on criminal justice | |
Alan G. Marshall | Society for Applied Spectroscopy fellow (2004) | |
Alfred Mele | Philosopher in practical reason | |
Doron Nof | Fridtjof Nansen Medal winner | |
Victor Nuñez | Film director | |
Ruth Posselt | Classical violinist | |
Per Arne Rikvold | 2004 Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters | |
Michael Ruse | Philosopher of science, known for his work on the relationship between creationism and evolution | |
Michael Shaara | Writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction | |
Louis Sola | Federal Maritime Commissioner | [153] |
Friedrich Stephan | Discovered the suprachiasmatic nucleus (circadian "clock") | |
Stephan von Molnár | 1986 Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award | |
Mark Winegardner | Novelist | |
Kun Yang | 2003 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association |
See also
- Category:Florida State University alumni
- List of Florida State University faculty
- List of Florida State University athletes
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