Former Faculty and Administrators
| Name | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Robby Benson | 1988 – 1990 | actor |
| Thomas Cooper | 1819 – 1834 | educator, philosopher, and political leader |
| James Dickey | 1969 – 1997 | poet and novelist author of Deliverance |
| Richard Theodore Greener | 1873 – 1877 | first Black person to graduate from Harvard University and first to teach at the University of South Carolina |
| Alexander Cheves Haskell | 1867 – 1868 | professor of law |
| John LeConte | 1856 – 1869 | geologist |
| Joseph LeConte | 1856 – 1870 | geologist |
| Francis Lieber | 1835 – 1856 | jurist and political philosopher |
| John McLaren McBryde | 1882 – 1888 | Virginia Tech president |
| Abioseh Nicol | 1990 – 1991 | author, diplomat from Sierra Leone; former under-secretary general of the United Nations |
| Jihan Sadat | 1985 – 1986 | widow of Anwar Sadat |
| Emory M. Sneeden | 1978 – 1982 | United States Court of Appeals Judge |
| Richard L. Walker | 1957 – 1981 | former United States ambassador to South Korea |
| Name | Year issued | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John Drayton | 1807 | Governor of South Carolina; pushed for the foundation of South Carolina College to unite the state |
| Moses Waddel | 1807 | Educator in South Carolina and Georgia |
| Thomas Cooper | 1833 | President of the University of South Carolina |
| Robert Woodward Barnwell | 1842 | President of the University of South Carolina |
| Thomas Green Clemson | 1886 | agriculturalist |
| Ellison Capers | 1888 | Confederate general during the American Civil War |
| Joseph B. Kershaw | 1893 | Confederate general during the American Civil War |
| Hugh Smith Thompson | 1900 | Governor of South Carolina |
| James F. Byrnes | – | Governor of South Carolina |
| Helen Hayes | 1979 | actress |
| George W. Bush | 2003 | President of the United States First commencement speaker at Colonial Life Arena |
| Chris Matthews | 2006 | TV talk-show host and pundit |
| Ben Bernanke | 2010 | Federal Reserve Chairman |
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