Arts and Humanities
- William Spratling (1921); silversmith and artist, "father of Mexican silver"
- Kenneth R. Giddens (1931); director of Voice of America and founder of WKRG-TV, Inc. in Mobile, Alabama
- Eugene Sledge (1955); World War II Marine; author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
- Anne Rivers Siddons (1958); best-selling author
- Toni Tennille (1962); award winning singer, half of the singing group "The Captain & Tennille."
- Elmo Shropshire (1964): Veterinarian and singer, most notable for Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
- Gerald Roush (1968 B.A., 1973 M.A.); Ferrari historian, publisher of the Ferrari Market Letter
- Jimmy Johnson (1974); cartoonist, "Arlo and Janis"
- Michael O'Neill (1974); actor
- Thom Gossom Jr (1975); actor
- Cynthia Tucker (1976); syndicated columnist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Rheta Grimsley Johnson (1977); syndicated newspaper columnist
- Bill Holbrook (1980); cartoonist, "On The Fast Track", "Safe Havens" and "Kevin & Kell"
- Ashley Crow (1982); American movie and TV actress
- Tim Dorsey (1983); author
- Phillip Sandifer (1977–78); writer, recording artist.
- Kimberly Page (1990); American actress & professional wrestling valet
- Travis S. Taylor (1991); science fiction author and host of Rocket City Rednecks on National Geographic Channel
- Kate Higgins; Voice actress, notably Sakura Haruno on Naruto
- Jake Adam York (1993); poet
- Jason Sanford (1993); science fiction author
- Ace Atkins (1994); Author and journalist
- Octavia Spencer (1994); Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actress
- Justice Leak (2003); actor, The Great Debaters
- Richard Marcinko (M.A. Political Science); founder U.S. Navy SEAL Team SIX and Red Cell; author of Rogue Warrior and several other fictional and non-fictional books.
- Big Bill Morganfield (Communications); blues singer and guitarist
- Selena Roberts Sportswriter Sports Illustrated
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or humanities:
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.”
—Joyce Cary (1888–1957)
“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)