Academia
- Walter Merritt Riggs (1892); president of Clemson University (1910–1924), "father of Clemson football";
- Luther Duncan (1900 and 1907); 4-H pioneer, Cooperative Extension administrator; Auburn University President.
- P. O. Davis (1916); Agricultural Editor, radio pioneer, Alabama Extension Service director, and national agricultural leader and spokesman
- E. T. York (1942 and 1946); Alabama Cooperative Extension System director (1959–1961); interim president of the University of Florida (1973–1974); chancellor of the State University System of Florida (1974–1980)
- James L. McCorkle, Jr. (1957); agricultural historian at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, from 1966-2003.
- Ali Abdelghany (1980); Egyptian academic and prominent marine biologist
- Wilford Sherill Bailey (1942); 13th President of Auburn University
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