- Samuel Ginn
Samuel L. Ginn (Born April, 1937) a native of Anniston, AL, received a degree in industrial management from Auburn University in 1959. He is considered a pioneer in the wireless communications industry and is a retired chairman and CEO of Vodafone AirTouch, PLC. Ginn was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley for an at large seat on the Auburn University Board of Trustees in 2005. His term expires on February 16, 2012.
- Pat Dye
Patrick Fain Dye (born November 6, 1939, in Blythe, Georgia) was an American college football coach most notable for his tenure as the head coach at Auburn University from 1981 until 1992. With a career record of 153-62-5 over nineteen seasons as a head coach, Dye was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
- Ronnie Brown
Ronnie G. Brown (born December 12, 1981 in Rome, Georgia) is an American football running back who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dolphins in the first round (second overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Auburn.
- Kenny Irons
Kenny Irons (born September 15, 1983) is an American football running back who played for Auburn University in the Southeastern Conference and is now a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. He is from Dacula, Georgia and transferred to Auburn from South Carolina in January 2004.
- Brandon Cox
Brandon Cox (born October 31, 1983 in Trussville, Alabama), is an American football quarterback, playing collegiately for Auburn University. Cox, a left hander, stumbled to begin the 2005 season before leading the Tigers to a 9-3 finish. Cox returned his Junior year to lead Auburn to a 11-2 finish, including a victory over Nebraska in the 71<sup>st</sup> annual Cotton Bowl Classic. He is expected to be the starter for the Tigers for the third year in 2007.
- Tommy Bowden
Tommy Bowden (born July 10, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is the head football coach at Clemson University. He is the son of Bobby Bowden, head coach at Florida State University. Bowden has never had a losing season at Clemson. He is a two-time ACC Coach of the Year. In the 2003 season, he became the first coach in NCAA history, to defeat two coaches with 200 or more wins in a one-month span, in Bobby Bowden, and Lou Holtz.
- Terry Bowden
Terry Bowden is a college football analyst/commentator, motivational speaker and former college football coach. Bowden is the son of Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden. His siblings include Tommy Bowden, the head football coach at Clemson and Jeff Bowden, former offensive coordinator at Florida State. Bowden currently serves as the color commentator for the Westwood One radio network's national NCAA game of the week, …
- Samuel Mockbee
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Mockbee's architectural partnership with Coleman Coker was recognized for an ingenious and quirky brand of regionalism. A growing sense of connection with rural places and a respect for the disadvantaged people who inhabit them led Mockbee, along with D. K. Ruth, …
- Wayne Flynt
Wayne Flynt is "Professor Emeritus" in the Department of History at Auburn University. He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professor for many years. His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty. He is now Editor-in-Chief of the new Online "Encyclopedia of Alabama". Dr. Flynt received his A.B. from Howard College (now Samford University), …
- Jeff Lebo
Jeffrey Brian (Jeff) Lebo (born October 5 1966 in Enola, Pennsylvania) is the current head men's basketball coach at Auburn University. He was named the Tigers' 19th head basketball coach on April 8, 2004, replacing Cliff Ellis. As a high school player, Lebo played for his father, Dave Lebo, at Carlise High School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The elder Lebo is now an assistant coach to his son.
- Jason Campbell
Jason Campbell (born December 31, 1981 in Laurel, Mississippi, USA) is an American football quarterback of the Washington Redskins. A 2000 graduate of Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Mississippi, Campbell went on to play college football at Auburn where he led the Tigers to an undefeated season in 2004 and was named the SEC Player of the Year and MVP of the SEC Championship Game. Campbell currently holds the longest touchdown completion in Auburn football history, …
- Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes "Arlo and Janis". He is an alumnus of Auburn University. As of 2006, despite the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, he still owns a home in Pass Christian, Mississippi. On April 3, 2006, he suffered a mild heart attack.
- Fob James
Forrest Hood "Fob" James, Jr. (born September 15, 1934 in Lanett, Alabama) is an American Republican politician. He served two terms as the governor of Alabama, from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat, and again from 1995 to 1999 as a Republican. James was a four-year letterman (1952-1955) and All-American halfback for the Auburn University football team.
- Brad Lester
Brad Lester (born 24 October, 1985), is a American football running back who currently plays for Auburn University. He was born to Phillis and Willie Miller and grew up in Lilburn, Georgia. Lester attended Parkview High School. At Parkview, Lester played alongside current Atlanta Braves outfielder Jeff Francoeur.class="wikitable" style="width: 25em; text-align:center" |+ 2005 Season Statistics |- !Opponent!! Rushing Attempts!! Yards !! TDs |- |Ga.
- Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . He has served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas.
- David Marsh
David Marsh is the men's and women's swimming and diving coach at Auburn University. Since becoming head coach in 1990, Marsh has led the men's team to seven NCAA national championships (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007) and the women's team to five national championships (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007). He will finish his coaching career at Auburn at the conclusion of the 2007 season, …
- Frank Thomas
Frank Edward Thomas (born May 27, 1968) is an American Major League Baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is known for his keen eye and immense power. Thomas became one of baseball's biggest stars in the 1990s, playing for the Chicago White Sox. He was given the nickname "The Big Hurt" by broadcaster Ken Harrelson. Thomas is one of several notable baseball players who played college baseball at Auburn University, such as Bo Jackson, …
- Tibor R. Machan
Tibor Richard Machan, Ph.D. (born 18 March 1939), professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Pacific Research Foundation in San Francisco.
- Joe Cribbs
Joe Stanier Cribbs (born January 5, 1958 in Sulligent, Alabama) is a retired NFL and USFL football running back. He played collegiately at Auburn University along with future NFL backs William Andrews and James Brooks. He began his professional career in 1980 with the Buffalo Bills. After being drafted in the second round of the 1980 NFL Draft, Cribbs went on to start all 16 games of his rookie year with Buffalo, finishing with 1185 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns.
- Tim Hudson
Timothy Adam Hudson (born July 14, 1975 in Salem, Alabama) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays with the Atlanta Braves (since 2005). Hudson began his major league career with the Oakland Athletics (1999-2004) and played his last two years of college eligibility at Auburn University. In an eight-season career, Hudson has compiled a 122-60 record with 1,171 strikeouts and a 3.50 ERA in 1651.0 innings with the Oakland Athletics and the Atlanta Braves.
- Cynthia Tucker
Cynthia Tucker is an American syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution". She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community"; she was a Pulitzer-nominated finalist in 2004 and 2006.
- Rudi Johnson
Burudi Ali Johnson aka Rudi Johnson(born October 1, 1979 in Petersburg, Virginia) is an American football running back who currently plays for the National Football League's Cincinnati Bengals. He was drafted by the Bengals out of Auburn University with the fifth pick of the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft, the 100th overall player taken. His mother got his middle name from her idol, Muhammad Ali.
- Bobby Lowder
Robert E. "Bobby" Lowder (b. ca. 1944 in Alabama) is an American banking executive. Lowder is an Auburn University trustee and alumnus, graduating with a B.S. in Finance in 1964. The Lowder Business Building on Auburn's campus is sometimes thought to be named after him, but according to the AU website, the building is named for his parents, Edward L. and Catherine K. Lowder. Lowder founded The Colonial BancGroup, a financial institution based in the state of Alabama.
- Courtney Taylor
Courtney Taylor (born April 7, 1984 in Carrollton, Alabama) is an American Football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He attended Auburn University, where he started 33 games for the Tigers. Taylor was drafted in the 6th round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
- Lowell Barron
Lowell Ray Barron (born April 22, 1942) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Alabama. A Democrat, he is currently a member of the Alabama Senate, serving his seventh four-year term as the Senator from the 8th District, composed of DeKalb, Jackson, and Madison counties. In 1983 Barron became the only successful write-in candidate in the history of the Alabama Legislature. Barron was born in Jackson County.
- Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born September 16, 1983) is a Zimbabwean swimmer. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, she attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, Coventry won three olympic medals, a gold, a silver, and a bronze. At Auburn, Coventry helped lead the Tigers to NCAA Championships in 2003 and 2004.
- Vince Dooley
Vincent Joseph Dooley (born September 4, 1932 in Mobile, Alabama) was the head football coach (seasons 1964 through 1988) and athletic director (1979 to 2004) at the University of Georgia. During his 25 year coaching career at UGA, Dooley compiled a 201-77-10 record. His teams won 6 Southeastern Conference titles and the 1980 National Championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations, …
- Nell Fortner
Nell Fortner is the current women's college basketball coach at Auburn. She is most well known for leading the 2000 Olympics team to a gold medal. As the coach of the U.S. national women's team, her overall record was 93-14(.869). For her success, she was named the 2000 USA Basketball Coach of the year. She also served as the head coach at Purdue. Her 1997 team won the Big Ten regular season conference title going 17-11 overall, and 12-4 in conference play.
- Carlos Rogers
Carlos Cornelius Rogers (born July 2, 1981 in Hephzibah, Georgia) is an American football cornerback in the NFL. He played college football at Auburn University, where he was named a member of the Associated Press, Football Writers and Walter Camp All-America teams. Rogers was also the recipient of the 2004 Jim Thorpe Award for the top defensive back in college football. Rogers was picked 9th overall by the Washington Redskins in the 2005 NFL Draft.
- Richard Quick
Richard Quick (born January 31, 1943 in Akron, Ohio) was the head coach of the women's swim team at Stanford University, California, USA from 1988 through 2005. He has been a coach for the US Olympic team for six Olympics - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Following the 2007 season, he will be head coach of the Auburn University Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving team. At the Sydney Olympics he led the women's team to sixteen medals.
- Spencer Bachus
Spencer Thomas Bachus III (b. December 28 1947), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing. The district, Alabama's wealthiest, includes sections of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, along with their most affluent suburbs.
- Brandon Jacobs
Brandon Jacobs is a running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. With a rare combination of 4.54 speed and impressive size (around 6ft 4½ and 264lbs), Jacobs has been an asset for the Giants in goal-line situations. He led all rookies in rushing touchdowns with 7 in the 2005 season.
- Roger Garrison
Roger Garrison is a professor of economics at Auburn University, Alabama. He is affiliated with the Austrian School of economics and wrote the book "Time and Money," which presents a graphical framework for capital-based macroeconomics and offers a critique of Keynesian graphical analysis. Dr.
- George Petrie
George Petrie (1866-1947) was an American educator at Auburn University. From 1887 until his retirement in 1942, Petrie held various positions at Auburn including Professor of History and Latin, Head of the History Department and Dean of the Graduate School. Petrie also organized and coached Auburn's football team in 1893. Petrie is perhaps best known as the author of the Auburn Creed:
- Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He is the founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk.
- John Vaughn
John Vaughn (born June 15, 1984 in Brentwood, Tennessee) is an American football placekicker who played college football for Auburn University. In the 2006 season, Vaughn was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and was a Lou Groza Award finalist. His 42-yard Cotton Bowl field goal was his twentieth made out of twenty-four attempts for a 83.3% on the season and made him just the second Auburn kicker ever to complete twenty or more field goals in a single season.
- Roderick T. Long
Roderick T. Long (b. February 4, 1964) is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University and a libertarian political commentator. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Long currently edits the "Journal of Libertarian Studies" and is a Senior Scholar at the Austrian School Ludwig von Mises Institute, also located at Auburn. He is the founder and president of the Molinari Institute, a small think-tank, …
- Billy Hitchcock
William Clyde Hitchcock (July 31 1916 - April 9 2006) was an American infielder, coach, manager and scout in Major League Baseball. He also served as president of the class AA Southern League from 1971-80. His brother Jim played briefly for the 1938 Boston Braves.
- Stan White
Stan White is a former American football quarterback. He is a graduate of W.A. Berry High School which is now Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. He went on to play quarterback at Auburn University where he started every game from his freshman year until his senior year, a total of 45 straight games. He was named permanent team captain on Auburn’s undefeated 1993 team that went 11-0 and was also named to Auburn’s Team of the Decade for the 1990’s.
- Mark Brown
Mark Brown (born May 19, 1980 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals. Brown played college football for Auburn University, before signing with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2003. On May 4, 2006, the Arizona Cardinals signed Brown as an unrestricted free agent.