72 Notable alumni of University of the South
Updated: June 12, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of the South is ranked #1,857 in the world and #458 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 72 notable alumni from University of the South sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of the South won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. R. N. MacCallum
1888-1956 (aged 68)
American football player
Robert Nelson MacCallum was a college football player and reverend.
2. Lee Tolley
1892-1972 (aged 80)
American football official
American football player
Robert Lee Tolley was a college football player and Southeastern Conference official.
3. Thomas Lakeman
1964-. (aged 62)
novelist
Thomas Lakeman is the author of three mystery novels published by St. Martin's Minotaur. These include The Shadow Catchers (2006), Chillwater Cove (2007) and Broken Wing (2009).
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4. Albion W. Knight
1859-1936 (aged 77)
Anglican priest
Albion Williamson Knight was a bishop in the Episcopal Church, serving in Cuba and the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
5. Neil Edmond
1891-1981 (aged 90)
American football player
Neil Smith "Chicot" Edmond was a college football player and lieutenant colonel.
6. William Henry Poole
1876-1921 (aged 45)
priest
American football player
William Henry Poole was a college football player while a divinity student, and later a minister.
7. Theodore DuBose Bratton
1862-1944 (aged 82)
Anglican priest
Theodore DuBose Bratton was a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church and the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.
8. Cleland Kinloch Nelson
1852-1917 (aged 65)
Anglican priest
Cleland Kinloch Nelson was the Third Bishop of the U.S. state of Georgia and the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Nelson was the 160th bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA).
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9. Wild Bill Claiborne
1872-1933 (aged 61)
American football player
William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne was an American college football player and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey Memorial parish.
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10. David Cadman
politician
David Cadman is a former Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver City Council from 2002 to 2011. A social and environmental activist, Cadman served as a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
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11. James S. Johnston
1843-1924 (aged 81)
Anglican priest
James Steptoe Johnston was an American Confederate veteran, preacher and educator. He served as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was the last bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Western Texas and the first bishop of its successor, the Diocese of West Texas. He was also the founder of TMI — The Episcopal...
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12. H. T. Kirby-Smith
1938-. (aged 88)
poet
H.T. or Tom Kirby-Smith is an American author and poet.
13. Richard Walker Bolling
1916-1991 (aged 75)
teacher
academic administrator
politician
Richard Walker Bolling was a prominent American Democratic Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, and Missouri's 5th congressional district from 1949 to 1983. He retired after serving for four years as the chairman of the powerful United States House Committee on Rules.
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14. Jennings Frederick Gillem
1890-1951 (aged 61)
head coach
American football player
Jennings Frederick Gillem, nicknamed "Jenks" and "Sam", was an American college football player and coach. Gillem played for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South, and was selected All-Southern in 1910, 1911, and 1912. His ability punting the football netted him a spot on an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. In 1915 he was selected...
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15. Vail M. Pittman
1883-1964 (aged 81)
politician
Vail Montgomery Pittman was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 19th governor of Nevada.
16. Douglas Hahn
Douglas Hahn is an American prelate who served as the seventh Episcopal Bishop of Lexington. He was elected on August 18, 2012, and consecrated on December 15, 2012, in Lexington, Kentucky. He served until March 9, 2016, when he was suspended for one year for lying during the bishop interview process about past adultery with a parishioner. In October of...
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17. Henry D. Phillips
1882-1955 (aged 73)
American football player
Anglican priest
Henry Disbrow Phillips was an American Episcopal bishop (1938–1955) and college football player and coach (1900–1909). Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line."
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18. Harris G. Cope
1880-1924 (aged 44)
American football player
Harris Goodwin Cope was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He served as the head football coach at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee from 1909 to 1916 and Howard College—now known as Samford University—in Marion, Alabama from 1922 to 1923, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 48–28–12. Cope was a...
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19. Shannon Sherwood Johnston
1958-. (aged 68)
priest
Shannon Sherwood Johnston is a bishop of The Episcopal Church who was the 13th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
20. Travis Randall McDonough
1972-. (aged 54)
lawyer
judge
Travis Randall McDonough is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and former chief of staff and counselor to the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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21. G. Porter Taylor
1950-. (aged 76)
Anglican priest
theologian
Granville Porter Taylor is the sixth and immediate past Episcopal Bishop of Western North Carolina. In March 2015 he announced his intent to retire. He was succeeded as bishop by the Rt. Rev. José Antonio McLoughlin. Taylor was appointed for a two-year term as Assisting Bishop in 2020 for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.
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22. Benjamin Hutto
1947-2015 (aged 68)
conductor
W. Benjamin Hutto was an American musician who specialized in writing, producing, and directing choral music. He served as Director of Choral Activities and Director of Performing Arts at St. Albans School for Boys and the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington D.C. He was also Director of Music and Organist at St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square.
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23. Chigger Browne
1888-1955 (aged 67)
American football player
Alvin Lowell "Chigger" Browne was a college football player and track coach.
24. Frank Juhan
1887-1967 (aged 80)
Anglican priest
athletics competitor
American football player
Francis Alexander "June" Juhan was an American football player and coach as well as an Episcopal bishop.
25. Charlie Dexter
1876-1934 (aged 58)
baseball player
Charles Dana Dexter was an American Major League Baseball outfielder from 1896 to 1903.
26. Mary Adelia McLeod
1938-2022 (aged 84)
Anglican priest
Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod was the first woman diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church. She was elected bishop of the Diocese of Vermont on June 5, 1993, at a special convention held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington. Clergy and lay delegates selected her from among five nominees.
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27. Ormond Simkins
1879-1921 (aged 42)
baseball player
American football player
Ormond Simkins was an American football and baseball player for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South. He was the son of William Stewart Simkins, who may have fired the first shot of the American Civil War.
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28. Shannon R. Valentine
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Shannon Rutter Valentine is an American politician who served as the Secretary of Transportation for Virginia from 2018 to 2022.
29. Terrell James
1955-. (aged 71)
painter
Terrell James is an American artist who makes abstract paintings, prints and sculptures. She is best known for large scale work with paint on stretched fabric, and for parallel small‑scale explorations such as the Field Studies series, ongoing since 1997. She lives and works in Houston, Texas.
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30. Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr
1888-1973 (aged 85)
military personnel
Lieutenant General Alvan Cullom Gillem Jr. was a United States Army officer who came from a family with a long military tradition and served in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and World War II. Gillem commanded the XIII Corps (United States), Ninth United States Army in the European Theater of Operations from September 1944 to September 1945.
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31. Wyman Duggan
1969-. (aged 57)
politician
Wyman Duggan is a Republican member of the Florida Legislature representing the state's 12th House district which includes parts of Duval County.
32. Henry Seibels
1876-1967 (aged 91)
American football player
Henry Goldthwaite "Ditty" Seibels was a prominent American athlete, playing football, baseball, and golf for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South.
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33. Alexander Campbell King
1856-1926 (aged 70)
lawyer
judge
Alexander Campbell King was the 16th Solicitor General of the United States and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. King was a founding partner of the international law firm of King & Spalding.
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34. John Thompson Whitaker
1906-1946 (aged 40)
journalist
John Thompson Whitaker was an American writer and journalist who served as a correspondent for several prominent newspapers in different parts of the world.
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35. Patrick Henry Nelson II
1856-1914 (aged 58)
lawyer
politician
Patrick Henry Nelson II was born in Camden, South Carolina to General Patrick Henry Nelson, of the Confederate States Army, and Emma Sarah Cantey. After attending The University of the South, Nelson went to study law with Judge Joseph B. Kershaw in Camden, S.C. in 1875. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar and went to practice with General...
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36. Roger Hodge
1967-. (aged 59)
journalist
magazine editor
Roger D. Hodge is Deputy Editor at The Intercept. He was the editor of Harper's Magazine from March 2006 through January 2010. He was the editor of the Oxford American from 2012–2015.
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37. Lydia Fenet
writer
Lydia Fenet is an American auctioneer, author, podcast host and globally recognized speaker. As CEO & Founder of The Lydia Fenet Agency, she has raised over a billion dollars for non-profits globally as the world's leading charity auctioneer. In addition, she serves as the Principal Auctioneer for Broad Arrow Group Auctions.
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38. Armistead I. Selden, Jr
1921-1985 (aged 64)
lawyer
diplomat
military officer
politician
Armistead Inge Selden Jr. was a segregationist U.S. Representative from Alabama. Originally a Democrat, he switched parties in 1979 to become a Republican.
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39. Stuart Bowen
1958-. (aged 68)
lawyer
military officer
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., is an American lawyer who served as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) from January 20 2004 to October 2013 under President Bush and President Obama.
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40. Tucker Eskew
1961-. (aged 65)
political adviser
Tucker Eskew is a political and communications strategist in the United States who served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs and Global Communications under President George W. Bush. He joined Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in August 2008 as senior advisor and counselor to Sarah Palin. He was the founder of Eskew Strategy Group, an Alexandria-based communications...
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41. Smith Hempstone
1929-2006 (aged 77)
columnist
novelist
military officer
editor
journalist
Smith Hempstone was a journalist, author, and the United States ambassador to Kenya from 1989 to 1993. He was a vocal proponent of democracy, advocating free elections for Kenya.
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42. John V. Fleming
1936-. (aged 90)
academic
John Vincent Fleming is an American literary scholar and the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
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43. Douglas Porch
1944-. (aged 82)
historian
Douglas Porch is an American military historian and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs for the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.
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44. Cary Travers Grayson
1878-1938 (aged 60)
military officer
Cary Travers Grayson was a surgeon in the United States Navy who served a variety of roles from personal aide to President Woodrow Wilson to chairman of the American Red Cross.
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45. Joe Wiegand
1965-. (aged 61)
impersonator
writer
politician
Joe Wiegand is an impersonator who has portrayed U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt after a career as a political consultant. Wiegand performed at the White House on October 27, 2008, as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. In 2012 he was the model for a Theodore Roosevelt sculpture commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History....
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46. Marcel Lettre
1972-. (aged 54)
Marcel Lettre is a former United States federal government official. He served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from December 2015 to January 2017. He now works for Lockheed Martin.
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47. Lee M. Thomas
1944-. (aged 82)
businessperson
Lee Muller Thomas is an American government official who was Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1985 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan.
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48. Luke Lea
1879-1945 (aged 66)
lawyer
businessperson
politician
Luke Lea was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. Lea was the longtime publisher of The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, and a United States Army veteran of World War I. In 1919 he led an unauthorized and unsuccessful attempt...
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49. Jim Fleming
1959-. (aged 67)
head coach
Jim Fleming is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at the University of Rhode Island (URI), a position he assumed in December 2013. Fleming served in the same capacity at Sacred Heart University (SHU) from 2000 to 2001 where he compiled a record of 21 wins and one loss. Prior to his...
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50. Harry P. Cain
1906-1979 (aged 73)
banker
politician
journalist
Harry Pulliam Cain was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Washington who served as a Republican from 1946 to 1953. Cain is mainly remembered for his conservative and often highly-controversial views as a member of the Senate and as a friend and supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Prior to his term in the Senate, he...
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51. Foley Beach
1959-. (aged 67)
bishop
Foley Thomas Beach is an American Anglican bishop. He was the second primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, a church associated with the Anglican realignment movement, and is the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South. Beach was elected as the church's primate on June 21, 2014. His enthronement took place on October...
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52. John Jeremiah Sullivan
1974-. (aged 52)
editor
writer
journalist
John Jeremiah Sullivan is an American writer, editor and teacher based in Wilmington, North Carolina. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and the southern editor of The Paris Review. In 2014, he edited that year's The Best American Essays, a collection in which his work has been featured in...
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53. John Jay Hooker
1930-2016 (aged 86)
lawyer
businessperson
politician
John Jay Hooker, Jr. was an American attorney, entrepreneur, political gadfly and perennial candidate from Nashville, Tennessee, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
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54. Bill Studeman
1940-. (aged 86)
intelligence officer
military officer
William Oliver Studeman is a retired admiral of the United States Navy and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with two extended periods as acting Director of Central Intelligence. As deputy director of Central Intelligence, he served in the administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton under three directors of Central Intelligence, Robert Gates, R. James...
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55. Frank Kelso
1933-2013 (aged 80)
submariner
military officer
Frank Benton Kelso II was an admiral of the United States Navy, who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1990 to 1994.
56. Samuel F. Pickering, Jr
1941-. (aged 85)
teacher
Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature....
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57. Hudson Stuck
1863-1920 (aged 57)
presbyter
mountaineer
Hudson Stuck was a British native who became an Episcopal priest, social reformer and mountain climber in the United States. With Harry P. Karstens, he co-led the first expedition to successfully climb Denali in June 1913, via the South Summit. He published five books about his years in Alaska. Two memoirs were issued in new editions in 1988, including his...
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58. William Alexander Percy
1885-1942 (aged 57)
poet
writer
William Alexander Percy was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Roman Catholicism of his French mother.
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59. Radney Foster
1959-. (aged 67)
country musician
singer-songwriter
recording artist
record producer
Radney Muckleroy Foster is an American country music singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his recording debut as part of the Foster & Lloyd duo, recording three studio albums and with nine singles on the country charts.
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60. Mallory Ervin
1985-. (aged 41)
television producer
YouTuber
beauty pageant contestant
Mallory Christina Ervin is an American YouTube personality, former entertainer and former beauty pageant titleholder from Morganfield, Kentucky. She held the title of Miss Kentucky 2009 and was the fourth runner-up to Miss America 2010. In September 2010, it was announced that she would be competing on The Amazing Race 17 with her father Gary. The Amazing Race was filmed...
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61. William Crawford Gorgas
1854-1920 (aged 66)
physician
medical officer
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases, for which he used the discoveries made by the...
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62. Brian Reynolds
1967-. (aged 59)
game designer
Brian Reynolds is an American videogame designer. Reynolds has designed at SecretNewCo, Zynga, Big Huge Games, and MicroProse and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including Civilization II, Rise of Nations, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and FrontierVille. He has also founded or co-founded...
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63. Edmund Kirby Smith
1824-1893 (aged 69)
botanical collector
army officer
scientific collector
botanist
Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department (comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana, Arizona Territory and the Indian Territory) from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.
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64. Archibald Butt
1865-1912 (aged 47)
military officer
Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt was an American Army officer and aide to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. After a few years as a newspaper reporter, he served two years as the First Secretary of the American embassy in Mexico. He was commissioned in the United States Volunteers in 1898 and served in the Quartermaster Corps during the...
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65. Gene Robinson
1947-. (aged 79)
Anglican priest
Vicky Gene Robinson is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire.
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66. Joe B. Hall
1928-2022 (aged 94)
basketball coach
Joe Beasman Hall was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985, leading the Wildcats to a national championship in 1978.
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67. Anson Mount
1973-. (aged 53)
television actor
film producer
actor
film actor
Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Cullen Bohannon in the AMC western drama series Hell on Wheels, as Jim Steele on the NBC series Conviction (2006), as the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise (appearing in Inhumans and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse...
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68. Jon Meacham
1969-. (aged 57)
biographer
writer
editor-in-chief
editor
journalist
Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former...
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69. Howard Baker
1925-2014 (aged 89)
television actor
lawyer
diplomat
politician
Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate minority leader and then Senate majority leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in...
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70. C. Wallis Ohl, Jr
1943-. (aged 83)
Anglican priest
Charles Wallis Ohl Jr. is an American bishop who was the Provisional Bishop of Fort Worth in The Episcopal Church. Jack Iker had been the Bishop of Fort Worth in the Episcopal Church until a super-majority of the diocese voted to dissolve its union with the General Convention at the 2007 and 2008 diocesan conventions. Those members of the diocese...
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71. Edwin M. Leidel, Jr
1938-2022 (aged 84)
military officer
Anglican priest
Edwin Max "Ed" Leidel Jr. OJN was a bishop of the Episcopal Church who served as Bishop of Eastern Michigan from 1996 to 2006 and as the Provisional Bishop of Eau Claire from 2010 to 2013.
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72. Reginald Heber Weller
1857-1935 (aged 78)
diocesan bishop
Anglican bishop
Reginald Heber Weller, Jr. was an Episcopal priest and bishop active in the ecumenical movement, establishing a dialogue among Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians.
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