Samford University - Alumni

Alumni

The Samford University Alumni Association counts more than 27,000 graduates among its membership. Some notable alumni include:

• Robert Aderholt (1990), United States Congressman from Alabama (1997- )
• Zane Birdwell (2003), Grammy award-winning recording engineer
• Philip Birnbaum, author and translator of Jewish works
• Bobby Bowden (1953), former Samford head football coach, former head football coach at Florida State University
• Marv Breeding (1952), MLB player
• Charles Crist, former Florida governor, graduated from Cumberland School of Law
• Cortland Finnegan, (2005), cornerback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League
• Jimbo Fisher(1987), head coach of the Florida State University Seminole Football Program.
• Jim Folsom (non-graduate), governor of Alabama from 1947-1951 and 1955-1959
• Deidre Downs, (2002), Miss America 2005.
• Scarlotte Deupree, (2002), Miss Alabama 2002, 1st Runner Up to Miss America
• Melinda Toole, (2006), Miss Alabama 2006, 4th Runner Up to Miss America
• Wayne Flynt, (1961), Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian
• Elizabeth Futral, opera singer
• Anne George, mystery author
• Karen Fairchild & Kimberly Schlapman of the Country Group Little Big Town
• Tony Hale, actor Arrested Development
• William E. Hull, retired Provost of Southern Seminary and Samford University; New Testament scholar
• Slick Lollar, NFL player
• Fred L. Lowery, Southern Baptist pastor and author from Bossier City, Louisiana
• David Gordon Lyon, Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School and founding curator of Semitic Museum
• Harold E. Martin (1923–2007), (1954) Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser and the Alabama Journal.
• David Brandon McGinty (2001), strategy advisor to multinational NGOs and social enterprises at H14 Development Group and World Vision; Professor of Nonprofit Law at Villanova University
• David Herman ( Wright Medical Distributor)
• Eric Motley (1996) State Department official
• James Record (1950s), former Alabama Senator
• Janie Shores, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
• Lee Emmett Thomas, mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana (1922-1930) and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representative (1912-1916); attended Samford when it was Howard College.
• Arthur Walker, late vice-president of Samford University and Southern Seminary, and executive director of the SBC Education Commission
• R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (1981) current president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

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