The following is a list of people associated with the University of Tennessee system in all its campuses. The list does not include personnel associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Politics and law
Education
Actors, directors, and entertainers
Artists and musicians
Authors
Business and economy Charles Scott Abbott, one of the two originators of Trivial Pursuit Claudia Brind-Woody, IBM executive James Clayton, president and CEO of Clayton Homes Michael T. Dugan, educator and accounting scholar Charlie Ergen, CEO of Echostar James Haslam Jr., founder and CEO of Pilot Corporation Charles O. Holliday, chairman of Bank of America and Former Chairman of DuPont Thomas M. Humphrey, economist and author Min Kao, CEO and founder of Garmin Frank Knight, economist William H. Lane, business executive and former chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters Tim Love, chef Godwin Maduka, doctor and philanthropist Charles McClung McGhee, late 19th-century Knoxville railroad magnate and financier Abdisalam Omer, governor of the Central Bank of Somalia Rex Repass, US-based public opinion and marketing research executive Jerry Sisk Jr., gemologist and television executive, co-founded Jewelry Television in 1993 Donnie Smith, CEO of Tyson Foods Chris Whittle, founder of Whittle Communications and Edison Schools Blake Stephano, founder, co-owner, and CEO of Highland Destinations and Thaw Out
Military
Athletics and sportscasters
Journalists and newscasters Richard Ernsberger Jr., senior editor, Newsweek Huell Howser, California television personality Ryan McGee, ESPN writer and commentator Ann Taylor, NPR newscaster Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN writer and commentator
Rhodes Scholars
Nobel laureates James Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; received an M.S. degree from UT in 1941James M. Buchanan biography , George Mason University Peter C. Doherty, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; faculty member in the UT Health Science Center in Memphis
Pulitzer prize winners
Science and technology
Astronauts
Faculty Sandra Blain (born 1941), ceramicist, potter, and sculptor Charles W. Kent (1860–1917), scholar of the English language Vernon Lattin (born 1938), president of Brooklyn College Carolyn Ringer Lepre, 10th president of Salisbury University Jill Mikucki, microbiologist, Antarctic researcher Kate Vitasek (born 1968), author and educator, adjunct faculty in the Haslam College of Business Global Supply Chain Institute and the Graduate and Executive Education Charles (Mike) Godsey (born 1955), adjunct professor at Ohio Dominican University, teaching Computer Science and Cybersecurity.
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