•
L. Desaix Anderson: career
United States Foreign Service officer specializing in
East Asian affairs, and former
American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Vietnam •
Byron De La Beckwith, Ku Klux Klansman convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader
Medgar Evers •
William West Bond: attorney and Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate (1921-1923) •
Lewis M. Branscomb: professor
emeritus at
Harvard Kennedy School •
Hayne D. Boyden: Naval aviator and Brigadier general, USMC •
Edward Ward Carmack: attorney, newspaper editor, and U.S. Senator (Tennessee) •
Robert Collins: American
physician and
pathologist •
Prentice Cooper: governor of Tennessee, 1939-1945 •
Paul Craft: American
country singer-songwriter •
Scott Crichton (class of 1972): associate justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court, 2015-2025 •
Zach Curlin: American football and basketball player and coach •
Ewin L. Davis: chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission •
Norman H. Davis: chairman of the
American Red Cross; U.S. diplomat at 1918
Versailles Conference and
1933 Geneva Conference •
Harold Earthman: member of the U.S. House of Representatives •
William Eggleston: photographer •
William Yandell Elliott: Rhodes Scholar, Vanderbilt
Fugitive, Harvard government professor, mentor of Henry Kissinger •
Charles Flexner: American
physician, clinical pharmaceutical scientist, academic, author and researcher •
Robert J. Gilliland: pioneer of American aviation, chief test pilot and first to fly
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. •
Andrew Glaze: award winning American poet and writer. •
Thomas Watt Gregory: Attorney General of the United States, 1914-1919 •
Lauren Grissom:
Miss Tennessee USA 2006 •
J. B. Hildebrand: American college football player and coach and civil engineer •
Doug Holder: representative, Florida House of Representatives 2006-2014 •
Keon Johnson: professional basketball player •
Jeffrey Lorberbaum: chairman and chief executive officer of
Mohawk Industries •
William F. McCombs: chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, 1912-1914 •
Edwin Mims: chair of the English Department at
Vanderbilt University, 1912-1942 •
Frank Murrey: American college football player, track athlete, and banker •
Mary Brown Pharr: American classicist best known for her work with her husband
Clyde Pharr on the translation of the
Codex Theodosianus •
Edgar E. Rand: president of
International Shoe Company, 1950-1955 •
Frank C. Rand: president of
International Shoe Company, 1916-1930; chairman 1930-1949 •
Henry Hale Rand: president of
International Shoe Company, 1955-1962 •
John Andrew Rice: co-founder and first rector,
Black Mountain College •
Wayne Rogers: screen actor, portrayed
Trapper John on
M*A*S*H; investment analyst for
Fox News network •
Vermont C. Royster: editor of the
Wall Street Journal, winner of two
Pulitzer Prizes and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom •
Manny Sethi: physician at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center. •
Ingram M. Stainback: Governor of
Hawaii, 1942-1951 •
Allen Steele: Hugo Award-winning science fiction author •
Robert McGill Thomas, Jr.: Pulitzer Prize nominated reporter for
The New York Times renowned for his obituaries, some of which are compiled in the book ''52 McG's: The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Writer Robert McG. Thomas Jr.'' •
Duncan L. Thompson:
State Auditor of Mississippi 1912-1916 •
John J. Tigert: first
Rhodes Scholar from Tennessee,
U.S. Commissioner of Education (1921–1928), third president of the
University of Florida (1928–1947), member of the
College Football Hall of Fame •
Paul Trousdale: American real estate developer best known for developing
Trousdale Estates in
Beverly Hills, California •
Elton Watkins:
U.S. Congressman from
Oregon 1923-1925 •
Michael Tate Westbrook: commanding officer of the
USS Spruance (DDG-111) 2010-2012 •
Fielding L. Wright: governor of
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