Science and Engineering
- Miller Reese Hutchison (1897); Inventor of the electric hearing aid and Klaxon automobile horn
- Hank Hartsfield (1954); astronaut, STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A
- Clifton Williams (1954); Gemini astronaut, test pilot
- Byron Lavoy Cockrell (1957); aeronautical engineer and rocket scientist
- Ken Mattingly (1958); astronaut, Apollo 13 (pulled), Apollo 16 (spacewalk), STS-4, STS-51-C
- Dr. Lester Crawford (1963); former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
- James Voss (1972); astronaut, STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, ISS
- Kathryn Thornton (1974); astronaut, second US woman in space, spacewalk, STS-33, STS-73
- Charles Durward Griffin (1975); biomedical engineer, member of the Alabama Engineers Hall of Fame as of 2006
- Jan Davis (1977); astronaut, STS-47, STS-60
- Tim Cook
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