This list of Florida State University people includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida State University (FSU). Florida State alumni are generally known as Seminoles. Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university in Tallahassee, Florida. Since its founding in 1851, Florida State has graduated 173 classes of students, and today has approximately 400,000 alumni.

Academia and research

Educators

Alumni Notability Reference James Ammons President of Florida A&M University J. David Armstrong President of Broward College Eric J. Barron President of Florida State University and Pennsylvania State University Judith A. Bense President of the University of West Florida John Grosskopf President of North Florida Community College Franklin L. Hagenbeck Superintendent of the United States Military Academy Mark R. Hamilton President of the University of Alaska System Carl Hite President of Cleveland State Community College Marvalene Hughes President of Dillard University Ronald R. Ingle President of Coastal Carolina University John P. Johnson President of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University A. James Kerley President of Gulf Coast State College Anne B. Kerr President of Florida Southern College Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. President of St. Petersburg College Charlie LaPradd President of St. Johns River Community College William D. Law President of St. Petersburg College Terrence Leas President of Big Bend Community College Aubrey K. Lucas President of the University of Southern Mississippi E. Ann McGee President of Seminole State College of Florida Robert McLendon President of St. Johns River Community College Charles R. Middleton President of Roosevelt University Albert A. Murphree President of Florida State College for Women and University of Florida William L. Proctor Chancellor of Flagler College and athletic director for Florida State University James C. Renick Chancellor of University of Michigan–Dearborn and vice president of the American Council on Education Clyda Stokes Rent President of Mississippi University for Women Martha Dunagin Saunders President of the University of West Florida Betty L. Siegel President of Kennesaw State University and the University System of Georgia Paul E. Stein Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy Glenn Terrell President of Washington State University John E. Thrasher President of Florida State University Jim Towey President of Ave Maria University, president of Saint Vincent College, and director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives John Kenneth Waddell President of Allen University and president of Denmark Community College E. Jean Walker President of Virginia Highlands Community College T. K. Wetherell President of Florida State University Mark S. Wrighton Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis

Academic administrators

Alumni Notability Reference Lawrence G. Abele Provost of Florida State University Debra D. Austin Chancellor of the State University System of Florida and provost of FAMU Gordon C. Bond Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University Todd Britsch Vice president at Brigham Young University and emeritus professor of humanities Jered Carr Director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs Thomas A. Desjardin Commissioner of Education for the State of Maine Steve Edwards Deputy provost of Florida State University Marc H. Ellis Director of Jewish Studies at Baylor University Leonard Erickson Deputy director of the Indiana University Cancer Center Wayne Flynt Writer, historian, and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University Dwight Gustafson Dean of fine arts at Bob Jones University Tameka Bradley Hobbs Associate provost of Florida Memorial University and founding director of the FMU Social Justice Institute think tank and research center Patrick C. Kennell Director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University Hilal Khashan Administrator at American University of Beirut Aquila Berlas Kiani President of the Pakistan Federation of University Women Stephen MacNamara Vice president of Florida State University Robert Millet Emeritus dean of religious education at Brigham Young University William L. Proctor Athletic director for Florida State University James C. Renick Vice president of the American Council on Education Xavier Serra Founder and director of the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University Betty Siegel President of the University System of Georgia

Professors and researchers

Alumni Notability ReferenceThomas E. Baker Constitutional law scholar and professor of law; a founding member of the Florida International University of the College of Law; nationally recognized constitutionalis; author of numerous books and editions, as well as commentary on constitutional law and the federal courts. Herman E. Brockman Geneticist, professor at Illinois State University Elizabeth Chamblee Burch Lawyer, elected member of the American Law Institute; Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at University of Georgia, and Charles Hughes Kirbo Chair of Law at UGA 2017–2018 John R. Carpenter Geochemist, professor at University of South Carolina Virginia Spencer Carr Biographer, professor at Columbia State University and Georgia State University Ricardo Dominguez Artist, activist, and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego; subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he founded Skip Horack Writer and professor; former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University; assistant professor at Florida State University Fiona Kelleghan Science fiction scholar and critic; associate professor at University of Miami Jesse Lee Kercheval Academic, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer; professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison; author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater Margaret Keyes Academic and heritage preserver; former professor of Home Economics at University of Iowa; nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation, known for her work to preserve the Iowa Old Capitol Building Masood Ashraf Raja Associate professor of postcolonial literature and theory at University of North Texas; editor and founder of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, an open-access journal Leonard Skinner High school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman; namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd David Ward-Steinman Composer and music professor; Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at San Diego State University; former professor at Indiana University Theodore Presser website

Science, space, technology, and math

Alumni Notability Reference Kathleen Amm Researcher and director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Brent A. Barlow Former professor at Brigham Young University and author Eric J. Barron Former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado; former dean of the College of Geosciences at University of Texas-Austin Justin Brown Professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington Antonio Busalacchi Jr. Current chairman of World Climate Research Programme and a committee for the National Academy of Sciences, professor at University of Maryland Suzy Covey Pioneer in XML encoding, and librarian emerita at the George A. Smathers Libraries Joseph W. Cullen Former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. Sylvia Earle Former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Steve Edwards Physicist Mostafa El-Sayed Current Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Sciences Marc H. Ellis Theologian and philosopher Leonard Erickson Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center, and professor at IUPUI Jaime Escalante Former Bolivian educator A. Wilson Greene Civil War historian and author; former executive director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier Carolyn S. Griner Former director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Steven Hebert Nephrologist Robert A. Holton Scientist who created Taxol, current professor at Florida State University Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh Food scientist and fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz Experimental physicist, early pioneer in developing Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program Dan Jones Professor of English studies at University of Central Florida Jesse Lee Kercheval Academic and writer; faculty member at University of Wisconsin–Madison Margaret Keyes Scholar in heritage conservation Hilal Khashan Professor of Political Science at American University of Beirut Jim Kuypers Communications expert, professor at Virginia Tech William Leap Anthropologist and professor at American University Deborah Mash Professor of neurology, and director of the Brain Endowment Bank at University of Miami Warren P. Mason Electrical engineer and physicist, founder of the field of distributed-element circuits * Thurston, Robert N, "Historical note: Warren P. Mason (1900–1986) physicist, engineer, inventor, author, teacher", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 425–434, July 1994. Charles T. Meide Underwater and maritime archaeologist Jason Moore Translational bioinformatics scientist and human geneticist Anthony Nicholls English physicist Harold O'Neil Experimental psychologist; professor at University of Southern California Orrin H. Pilkey Geologist, and professor emeritus at Duke University Alan R. Price Former associate director for investigative oversight for the National Institute of Health Thomas S. Ray Ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life Dušan Repovš Slovenian mathematician, ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia for Science Landon T. Ross Environmental biologist Anne Rudloe Marine biologist, writer, environmentalist, co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award winner James A. Shymansky Science educator Dewey Smith Professional aquanaut and underwater diver Nyayapathi Swamy Mathematical physicist Maria Zemankova Computer scientist, created the theory of Fuzzy Relational Database System, recipient of the SIGMOD Contributions Award

Astronauts

Alumni Notability Reference Winston Scott Former NASA astronaut Norman Thagard Former NASA astronaut and currently a tenured professor of engineering at Florida State University

Meteorology

Alumni Notability Reference Stephanie Abrams Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Neil Frank Former director of the National Hurricane Center Stanley Goldenberg Current meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thomas Grazulis Meteorologist, worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Janice Huff Meteorologist, currently works for WNBC, and the Today Show Richard Knabb Former director of the National Hurricane Center; currently at The Weather Channel Jennifer Lopez Meteorologist, currently works for The Weather Channel Max Mayfield Former director of the National Hurricane Center Ada MonzónFirst woman meteorologist in Puerto Rico Bryan Norcross Meteorologist, currently a hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel Bill Proenza Former director of the National Hurricane Center and former director of the National Weather Service's Southern Region Dallas Raines Meteorologist, currently works for KABC-TV George Winterling Former meteorologist with WJXT

Rhodes Scholars