- H. Gardner Ackley, economist and former United States Ambassador to Italy
- Jonathan S. Adelstein, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
- Stephen Ambrose, historian and professor
- Ellis Arnall, 69th Governor of Georgia
- David Baldacci, novelist
- James Barksdale, president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation
- Kathleen Blanco, 54th Governor of Louisiana
- John R. Brazil, President of Trinity University
- David Brubeck, jazz musician
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
- Turner Catledge, senior executive of The New York Times
- Thad Cochran, United States Senator
- Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State
- Lamar Dodd, artist
- David Herbert Donald, historian and professor
- Peter M. Donohue, President of Villanova University
- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Bob DuPuy, former President and Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball
- Doug Engelbart, inventor and internet pioneer
- Leslie Erganian, novelist
- Craig Fleener, Deputy Commissioner Alaska Department of Fish & Game
- Henry H. Fowler, 58th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
- Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Glenna Goodacre, artist
- John Grisham, author
- Claude Hall, historian and professor
- Nathaniel Edwin Harris, 61st Governor of Georgia
- Bernard A. Harris, Jr., first African American to spacewalk
- Milton Stover Eisenhower, President of three major American universities
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, United States Senator
- Marjorie Holt, United States Congresswoman
- William Marion Jardine, United States Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassador
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- Robert Khayat, former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
- William Allen Knowlton, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
- Alfred Landon, 26th Governor of Kansas and United States Presidential Nominee
- Wendy Lawrence, NASA astronaut
- Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines
- Ellis Marsalis, jazz musician
- Ray Mabus, 75th United States Secretary of the Navy
- James A. McDivitt, Commander of Gemini 4 and Apollo 9
- Robert A. McDonald, Chairman, President, and CEO of Procter & Gamble
- George Olah, Nobel Prize winning Chemist
- Linus Pauling, Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Edward Perkins, former United States Ambassador and Director of the United States Diplomatic Corps
- Russell Peterson, Governor of Delaware
- Fidel V. Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines
- Harry Reid, United States Senate Majority Leader
- Peter Rheinstein, former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official
- Carlos P. Romulo, President of the Fourth Session of United Nations General Assembly
- Shlomo Sawilowsky, Rabbi and professor
- Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, Pulitzer Prize winning historian
- Theodore Schultz, Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist
- Robert Walter Scott, 67th Governor of North Carolina
- James Graves Scrugham, 14th Governor of Nevada
- Claude Shannon, the father of information theory
- Robert L. F. Sikes, United States Congressman
- Chesterfield Smith, President of the American Bar Association during the Watergate scandal.
- James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University, 1930-1939
- William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States
- Jim Tressel, former head football coach at The Ohio State University
- Morris Udall, U.S. Representative
- Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and Prisoner of War (POW) in the 2011 Libyan Civil War
- Frank Albert Waugh, pioneer of landscape architecture
- John Noble Wilford, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- John D. Zeglis, President of AT&T and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AT&T Wireless
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