Faculty
- Wayne Flynt; Professor Emeritus; a leading authority on Alabaman history and Baptist history in Alabama. The author of eleven books, including the Pulitzer Prize nominated Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites.
- Krystyna Kuperberg; mathematician, known for creating a counterexample to the Seifert conjecture.
- Roderick Long; libertarian political commentator.
- Mel Rosen (born 1928), track coach
- James Voss; former US astronaut and veteran of five spaceflights; teaching courses on Space Mission Design.
- Olav Kallenberg; mathematician known for research in the field of probability theory.
- Mrinal Thakur; mechanical engineering faculty, co-discoverer of conducting polymers.
- Herbert W. Ehrgott; U.S. Air Force general
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