- Robert W. Woodruff
Robert Winship Woodruff (December 6, 1889 - March 7, 1985) was the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954. With his enormous Coke fortune, he was also a major philanthropist, and many educational and cultural landmarks in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia, bear his name. Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, …
- Crawford Long
Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 - June 16, 1878) was an American physician and pharmacist. He was born in Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia. He received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. He performed the first surgical operation in general anesthesia induced by ether. Although William T.G. Morton is well-known for performing his historic anesthesia on October 18, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts, …
- Frans de Waal
Frans B.M. de Waal (born 1948, the Netherlands) was trained as a zoologist and ethologist in the European tradition at three Dutch universities (Nijmegen, Groningen, Utrecht), resulting in a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht, in 1977. His dissertation research concerned aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques. In 1981, Dr. de Waal accepted a research position at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- Merle Black
P. Merle Black is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Politics and Government at Emory University and an expert on political science and politics in the Southeastern United States. He is a frequent media source on Southern politics, as is his twin brother, Earl Black, a professor at Rice University. The two brothers are sometime co-authors, and have written several important books about politics in the Southern US, including "Politics and Society in the South."
- Christopher McCandless
Christopher J. McCandless was an American wanderer who died near Denali National Park after hiking alone into the Alaskan wilderness with little food or equipment. Author Jon Krakauer wrote a book about his life, "Into the Wild", in 1996.
- Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She has taught at U.C.L.A. and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from City College of New York and her master's and doctorate from Brandeis University.
- Wallace H. Coulter
Wallace H. Coulter was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is best known for his discovery of the Coulter principle, which provided a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid. His invention of the Coulter Counter made possible today’s most common medical diagnostic test: the complete blood count (CBC).
- Drew Westen
Drew Westen is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex (England), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he taught introductory psychology for several years.
- Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West.
- Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a first generation Indian-American physician and a contributing CNN senior health correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia. An Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, he is also a frequent guest on the news program "Anderson Cooper 360°". "Charity Hospital", a news report he filed for "Anderson Cooper 360°", …
- Bobby Jones
Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 - December 18, 1971), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28. Jones was a child prodigy who won his first children's tournament at the age of six and made the third round of the U.S. Amateur Championship at 14.
- Arthur Kellermann
Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. (born 1955) is a professor and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University. He is also currently director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as co-chair of the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- Julie Gerberding
Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. (born August 22, 1955, Estelline, South Dakota), an infectious disease expert, is the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), having assumed the positions on July 3, 2002. Dr. Gerberding has been leading CDC's efforts to prepare for and counter terrorism. Dr.
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'Im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights, and he is the director of the Religion and Human Rights Program at Emory. An-Naim was formerly the Executive Director of the African bureau of Human Rights Watch. He argues for a synergy and interdependence between human rights, religion and secularism, …
- Earl Lewis
Earl Lewis is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He is the university's first African American provost and the highest ranking African American administrator in the university's history
- Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) is an African-American poet. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection "Native Guard." This poetry collection touches on three main themes: the murder of her mother by her stepfather in 1985, growing up biracial in Mississippi, and the Native Guard, a regiment of free men of color and ex-slaves that fought for the Union in the Civil War. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.
- Samuel Candler Dobbs
Samuel C. Dobbs (Samuel Candler Dobbs), president and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company, from 1919 to 1922. Dobbs was born in 1869 in Georgia. He was the son of Harris Henry Dobbs, and cousin of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Dobbs began his career as an Atlanta-based Coca-Cola salesman, …
- James W. Wagner
James W. Wagner is the president of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Wagner came to Emory in September 2003 after serving as provost and interim president of Case Western Reserve University. He is the successor to William Chace. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1975 and a master's degree in clinical engineering in 1978 from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
- Asa Griggs Candler
Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon who made most of his money selling Coca-Cola. He also served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919. Candler Field, the site of the present-day Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was named after him, as is Candler Park in Atlanta. Candler was born in Villa Rica, Georgia. He began his business career as a drugstore owner and manufacturer of patent medicines.
- Barbara Rothbaum
Barbara Rothbaum, Ph.D., is a psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department. Dr. Rothabaum is head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program (TARP) at Emory. In the mid 1990s she founded a Virtual exposure therapy company called Virtually Better, Inc. This company treats patients with fears, and the like using virtual reality instead of the actual place or scenario.
- Kenneth W. Stein
Dr. Kenneth W. Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
- Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African since Albert Camus so honored. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family, specifically, an Egba family in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. He received a primary school education in Abeokuta and attended secondary school at Government College, Ibadan.
- Donald Livingston
Donald Livingston is an American philosophy professor based at Emory University with an expertise in the writings of David Hume. Livingston received his doctorate at Washington University in 1965. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and is on the editorial board of "Hume Studies" and "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture".
- Benn Konsynski
Benn Konsynski is the George S. Craft Professor of Business Administration at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Prior to assuming his position at Emory, Dr. Konsynski served on faculty at the Harvard Business School and the University of Arizona, where he co-founded the university's multi-million dollar group decision support laboratory.
- Kenneth Cole
Kenneth Cole (b. March 23, 1954) is an American clothing designer. Born in Brooklyn, he is a graduate of Emory University. In 1982, Kenneth Cole got his start by selling shoes out of the back of a 40-foot trailer in Midtown Manhattan. At that time, the only people who could get parking permits from the city were utility companies or production companies shooting full-length films. Kenneth Cole therefore changed his company name from Kenneth Cole, Inc.
- Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University.
- Harvey Klehr
Harvey E. Klehr (born December 25, 1945) is a professor of politics and history at Emory University; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist movement, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with John Earl Haynes). He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1967, and his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971.
- Melvin Konner
Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He earned his PhD in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 1973. He spent two years doing fieldwork among the Kalahari San or Bushmen, …
- Julian Whitaker
Julian Whitaker , MD, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Emory University Medical School in Atlanta, Georgia. Since opening the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California, in 1979, he and his staff have successfully treated approximately 40,000 patients with his unique program of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and noninvasive therapies.
- Courtney Brown
Courtney Brown, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of political science at Emory University and is known for promoting the use of nonlinear mathematics in social scientific research. He is also known as a proponent of remote viewing, a form of extra-sensory perception alleged to have been used by the DIA and CIA until 1995.
- Dan Miller
Daniel (Big Smart Dan) Miller (born May 30, 1942) is an American Republican politician from the state of Florida. He represented the state and its 13th district in the House of Representatives for ten years. After vacating his House seat, Katherine Harris was elected to represent the district in 2002. Miller was born in Highland Park, Michigan, but moved to Florida during his childhood and graduated from Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida, in 1960.
- Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers (born July 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, and many other instruments. Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She began her college education at Tulane University, but transferred to Emory University, graduating in 1985 with a degree in English.
- Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor was the United States national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean under President Jimmy Carter. Pastor was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 to serve as the Ambassador to Panama. However, President Clinton withdrew his nomination when he was brought under fire during his confirmation hearing for overseeing the return of the Panama Canal to the Panamians during his term under Carter.
- Amy Ray
Amy Ray (born April 12 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA), is a singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Ray grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and went on to begin college at Vanderbilt University. After a year at Vanderbilt, Ray returned to Greater Atlanta to continue her education at Emory University. Ray graduated from Emory in 1986 with majors in English and Religion. On March 6 2001 she released her first solo album, "Stag", a southern and punk rock album.
- Sidney Marcus
Sidney J. Marcus was a Georgia (U.S.) legislator from Atlanta's 26th district, now the 106th district, who served in the Georgia General Assembly from 1968 until his death in 1983. He served on several committees: Health and Ecology, on which he was chairman; Ways and Means; and Rules. For several years, Marcus was chairman of Fulton County delegation. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of Atlanta in 1981, defeated by Andrew Young.
- Thomas G. Long
Dr. Thomas G. Long is the Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BA and MDIV from Erskine Seminary and his PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1980. He began his career as a preacher at McElroy Presbyterian Church near Atlanta, Georgia and since that time has taught at a number of seminaries, including Princeton and Candler. In 1996, Dr.
- Michael A. Bellesiles
Michael A. Bellesiles is a former professor of Colonial history at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia USA, where he served as director of undergraduate studies in history from 1991-1998, and a former Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998-99 Bellesiles was a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Institute and spent 2001-02 as a Visiting Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
- Tom Price
Dr. Thomas E. "Tom" Price (born October 8 1954) is an American politician. He has been a member of the Republican caucus of the United States House of Representatives since 2005 representing the 6th Congressional District of Georgia (map), based in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. He was born in Lansing, Michigan and graduated with an M.D. from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta and decided to stay there afterwards.
- Ulric Neisser
Ulrich Neisser is an American psychologist. Born in Kiel, Germany, he moved with his family to the United States in 1931. Neisser earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1950, a Master’s at Swarthmore, and a doctorate from Harvard in 1956. He then taught at Brandeis, Cornell, and Emory universities. The modern growth of cognitive psychology received a major boost from the publication in 1967 of the first, and most influential, …
- Don Saliers
Dr. Don E. Saliers is the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Saliers received his B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, and both his B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity) and his Ph.D. from Yale University. An accomplished musician, theologian, and scholar of liturgics, Professor Saliers is the author of numerous books on the relationship between theology and worship practices.