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.

Arts

Radney Foster, country music artist

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

"Diddy" Seibels

• 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

Samuel and Victoria Pickering

• 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

Gene Robinson, ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop

• 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