Academia
- Frank Moore Cross, religious scholar
- Angela Davis, social activist and author
- Richard Nelson Frye, scholar of Iran and Central Asia
- Roland Frye, scholar
- Carol Garrison, president of University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Herman H. Long, president of Talladega College and United Negro College Fund
- J. Gordon Melton, religious scholar
- Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr. Emeritus Professor in psychology
- Julia Tutwiler, educator and social reformer
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