Notable Alumni
- Roy Barnes, former governor of Georgia (History)
- Jack Barrow, U.S. Congressman (12th Congressional District, Georgia)
- Jack Baurle, head coach 2008 Olympics USA women’s swim team (English)
- Alton Brown, host of Food Network’s Good Eats and Iron Chef America (Theatre)
- Kyle Chandler, Emmy-award winning actor, “Friday Night Lights” (Theatre)
- Terry Hoage, former NFL football player, winemaker, Terry Hoage Vineyards (Genetics)
- Hamilton Holmes, physician and first African-American male to attend UGA (Zoology)
- John Huey, editor-in-chief of Time Inc. (English Literature)
- Roger Hunter, project manager of NASA’s Kepler space telescope project
- Wayne Knight, actor, “Jurassic Park” and “Seinfeld” (Theatre)
- Pat Mitchell, former president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service, director of Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television and Radio (English)
- Fred Newman, writer, actor, sound effects artist on A Prairie Home Companion” (Political Science)
- Charles Sanford, Jr., retired chairman and CEO, Banker’s Trust of New York (History)
- D.J. Shockley, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback (Speech Communication)
- Michael Stipe, lead vocalist, R.E.M. (Lamar Dodd School of Art matriculate)
- Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, U.S. Poet Laureate (English)
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