- 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.
- Thomas Green Clemson
Thomas Green Clemson, IV (July 1, 1807 - April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as an ambassador and the United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He was the founder of Clemson University. Born in Philadelphia, Clemson was the son of Thomas Green Clemson, III, and Elizabeth Baker. He was educated in Paris at Sorbonne and the Royal School of Mines, where he got a diploma as an assayer.
- Jim Demint
James Warren DeMint (born September 2, 1951) has been a U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 2005. He had previously represented the state's 4th Congressional District from 1999 to 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party.
- Bruce Yandle
Bruce Yandle is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics at Clemson University and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center. He received his MBA and PhD from Georgia State University. From 1976 to 1978, Yandle served on the "President's Council on Wage and Price Stability". His main research interest is free market environmentalism.
- Oliver Purnell
Oliver Purnell (born May 19, 1953) is an American college basketball coach at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
- Jack Leggett
Jack Leggett (born March 5, 1954) is the head baseball coach for Clemson University. He is widely considered to be one of the finest coaches in the game. In only 12 seasons, he has led the Tigers to 555 wins (an average of 46 per season). In every season, the Tigers have reached the NCAA Tournament, including the College World Series four times. He also has 81 victories over Top 10 Opponents, and 43 wins in the NCAA Tournament.
- Danny Ford
Danny Lee Ford is a former American football coach, who most notably led Clemson University as its head coach to its 1981 national football championship.
- Harvey Gantt
Harvey B. Gantt (born 1943 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an architect and politician. In 1963, he was the first black American to be admitted to Clemson University in South Carolina, the last State to hold out to racial integration. He received a degree in architecture with Honors from Clemson and a Master's degree in City Planning from MIT. From 1974 until 1983, Gantt served on the Charlotte City Council.
- Frank Howard
Frank J. Howard (March 25, 1909 - January 26, 1996) was an American college football player and coach. He played college football for Alabama and was a teammate of legendary coach Bear Bryant. After a career-ending injury, Howard joined the staff at Clemson College and became head coach in 1939. Howard would coach the Clemson Tigers for 30 years, amassing the 15th most wins of any college football coach. He led Clemson to ten bowl games, an undefeated season in 1949, …
- Gaines Adams
Gaines Adams, (born on June 8, 1983), is a defensive end drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played collegiately for Clemson University.
- Charlie Whitehurst
Charlie Whitehurst (born August 6, 1982) is an American football quarterback for the National Football League's San Diego Chargers. Whitehurst played college football at Clemson University. He is the son of former Green Bay Packers quarterback David Whitehurst. Charlie Whitehurst has broken most of Clemson's passing records and has gone 4-0 against Clemson's rival, the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.
- Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover (born November 12, 1979) is an American golfer. Glover was born in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University from 1998 until 2001. During his Clemson career he was named an 1st Team All-America in 2000 and 2001. He was a member of the 2001 United States Walker Cup team and turned professional later that year. Glover played on the Nationwide Tour in 2002 and 2003, …
- Will Proctor
William Bartlett (Will) Proctor (born November 3, 1983 in Winter Park, FL) is a starting quarterback for the Clemson Tigers at Clemson University in the Atlantic Coast Conference in NCAA Division I-A. He attended Trinity Prep High School. In 2003, he didn't play as quarterback at all, but played four games at wide receiver. He was the backup of Charlie Whitehurst until the 2006-2007 season.
- D.J. Trahan
D.J. Trahan (born December 18, 1980) is an American golfer. Trahan was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Paul M. Dorman High School in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links in 2000 and represented the United States in the 2001 Walker Cup and the 2002 Eisenhower Trophy.
- Jonathan Byrd
Jonathan Byrd (born in January 27, 1978) is an American golfer. Bryd was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University from 1997 until 2000. During his Clemson career, Byrd was the first four-time First Team All-ACC player in Clemson history was named an First Team All-America in 1999 and represented the United States on the Walker Cup team in 1999. Bryd turned proffesional in 2000 and played on the Buy.Com Tour (now Nationwide Tour), …
- Larry Shyatt
Larry Shyatt is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Florida. He previously served as the head coach at the University of Wyoming and Clemson University.
- John Wilson
John Wilson (born October 26, 1977 in Seneca, South Carolina) is a soccer defender (generally playing left back), who is currently without a club after being waived by D.C. United. Wilson played college soccer at Clemson University as a forward. During his time with the Tigers, Wilson helped them to an ACC Championship and an appearance in the NCAA Final Eight (1998). He talled 18 goals and 35 assists in his college career.
- Vic Koenning
Vic Koenning (Born February 26, 1960) is the defensive coordinator at Clemson. He has a strong background, as he was a defensive coordinator at Troy, Memphis, and Wyoming. From 2000 to 2002, he was the head coach of Wyoming, but was fired with a career record of 5-29. He played for the Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos in the NFL.
- 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, …
- David Beasley
David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26 1957) is a United States politician. He was the Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999. David Beasley began his political career as a member of the U.S. Democratic Party, but switched to the U.S. Republican Party long before his time as governor. His first run for public office was at the age of 20, when, as a junior attending Clemson University, he won a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
- Duane Coleman
Duane Coleman (born December 23, 1982 in Naples, Florida) is an American football cornerback who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played collegiately at Clemson.
- Tye Hill
John Tye Hill is an American football cornerback, acquired in the 2006 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. Hill graduated from Woodland High School and Clemson University. He was drafted 15th overall by the St. Louis Rams. While at the 2006 NFL Combine he also posted the fastest electronically timed 40 yard dash—4.31 seconds
- James Dickey
James Dickey was a popular United States poet and novelist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and his wife, Maibelle Swift Dickey. He attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead (Atlanta) neighborhood. In 1942 he enrolled at Clemson University and played on the football team as a tailback. After one semester, he left school to enlist in the Army Air Corps.
- Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941, Forest, California, United States) is an American football coach, who is currently the head football coach for the University of Kentucky. Brooks is best known for spending 18 seasons at the University of Oregon, and winning the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for national coach of the year after leading Oregon to the Rose Bowl in 1994.
- Donald J. Boudreaux
Donald J. Boudreaux became chairman of the department of economics at George Mason University in August 2001. He previously served as president of the libertarian think tank Foundation for Economic Education, a post he accepted in May 1997. He also teaches Economic Foundations of Legal Studies at the George Mason University School of Law. From 1992 to 1997, Boudreaux was professor of law and economics at Clemson University.
- Steven Jackson
Steven Nash Jackson, born March 15, 1982, in Eutawville, South Carolina, is an American baseball player who is a non-roster invitee to the New York Yankees 2007 spring training camp. He is 6' 5", and throws right-handed. He attended Summerville High School and Clemson University. He pitched for Clemson for four years, going 19-8. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 38th round of the 2000 draft, then by the Cleveland Indians in the 32nd round of the 2003 draft, …
- Steven Jackson
Steven Jackson (born May 11, 1984 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American football fullback, currenty on the practice squad of the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Minnesota Vikings out of Clemson University, but was cut on September 2, 2006. Jackson played one season at East Tennessee State University beforing transferring to Clemson.
- Rick Barnes
Rick Barnes (born July 17, 1954 in Hickory, North Carolina) is the current head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns men's basketball team. He has coached Texas for the last eight seasons, taking the team to the NCAA Tournament each year, including a Final Four appearance led by T. J. Ford in 2003. Barnes previously coached at George Mason University, Clemson University and Providence College. He is a 1977 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College.
- Tommy West
Thomas "Tommy" Cleveland West (born on July 31, 1954, in Carrollton, Georgia) is the current Head Coach of Football at the University of Memphis. He also served as the head coach for Clemson University. He is married to the former Lindsay Watkins. The couple has one son, Turner.
- Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown (born January 6, 1969 in Washington DC) is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 110 metres hurdles. He represented his birth country United States until 1997. He attended the Clemson University, South Carolina, USA.
- Airese Currie
Airese K. Currie (born November 16, 1982 in Columbia, South Carolina) was an American football wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He was selected with the fourth pick of the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Clemson University. He spent his entire rookie season in 2005 with the Chicago Bears on injured reserve. In the 2006 season he was again placed on injured reserve on September 29, 2006 soon after playing his first NFL game.
- Oguchi Onyewu
Oguchialu Chilioke "Oguchi" Onyewu or "Gooch" (born May 13, 1982 in Washington, D.C.) is an American soccer player who plays in defense for Standard Liège and the United States. Onyewu's parents moved to the United States from Nigeria to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C. Onyewu has two brothers, Uche and Nonye, and two sisters, Chi-Chi and Ogechi. Growing up in Silver Spring and later Olney, Maryland, …
- Dane Richards
Dane Richards (born December 14, 1983) is a Jamaican football forward, who currently plays for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer. Richards debuted with the Jamaican national team in 2002 at the age of 18, and he moved to the United States to play college soccer in 2003. Richards played two years at San Jacinto College in Houston, where he scored a record 45 goals in two years, including a school-record 25 as a sophomore in 2004.
- Derrick Hamilton
Derrick T. Hamilton (born on November 30 1981 in Dillon, South Carolina, USA) is a wide receiver free agent of the NFL. He was drafted by the 49ers in the 3rd round (77th overall) in the 2004 NFL Draft. He went to Clemson University, where he was a star wide receiver and All-American kick/punt returner.
- Charles Allen
Charles Allen (born March 3, 1977 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Canadian-Guyanese athlete specializing in hurdling, but also a sprinter. Born in Georgetown, Guyana Allen emigrated to Canada, first to Brampton where he attended Turner Fenton Secondary School, and then to Malton where he went to Ascension of Our Lord Secondary School. He competed for Guyana in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and still holds the Guyanese record in the 110 meter hurdles.
- Bobby Johnson
Bobby Johnson (b. Columbia, South Carolina) is the head football coach at Vanderbilt University. He became the Commodores' coach in December 2001 after leading Furman University to the Division I-AA national championship game. Johnson's first head coaching job was at Furman, which hired him in 1994. Previously, he had been defensive coordinator at Clemson University.
- Steve Fuller
Stephen Ray Fuller is an American former professional football player. He played seven years in the NFL, most notably with the Chicago Bears as their backup quarterback from 1984-1986, including the Super Bowl XX championship season in 1985. Fuller played collegiately at Clemson University and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1st round (23rd overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft.
- Charley Pell
Charley Pell (1941 - May 29, 2001) was the Clemson University head football coach from 1977 through 1978 and University of Florida football coach from 1979 through 1984, credited by many with laying the foundation for the later success of both programs. Pell, a native of Albertville, Alabama, was a graduate of the University of Alabama, and played for the Crimson Tide under legendary coach Bear Bryant as a lineman on his first national title team in 1961.
- Leroy Hill
Leroy Hill, Jr. (born September 14, 1982 in Haddock, Georgia) is an American football linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. He was selected with the 34th pick of the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Clemson University. Injuries to starting veteran linebacker Jamie Sharper put him into the starting lineup in his rookie year, and he did very well, totaling 72 tackles and 7.5 sacks from the outside linebacker position.
- Cliff Ellis
Cliff Ellis is an American college basketball coach. His 534 victories rank him 29<sup>th</sup> on the list of all-time career coaching victories in Division 1 basketball. He was national coach of the year in 1999 at Auburn, when his Tigers won 29 games and captured the school’s first SEC championship in 40 years. In 1990 he coached Clemson to its only ACC title in history and his South Alabama teams won Sun Belt Conference regular-season championships in 1979, …