- Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler Bowden (born November 8, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known as "Bobby Bowden", is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I football history with 366 career wins. Bowden is currently the head coach at the Florida State University, where he has been since 1976.
- Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist , Attorney General (State of Florida)
- Mike Martin
Mike Martin, Sr. (born February 12, 1944) is the sixth all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I college baseball history, and second in all-time winning percentage. Heading into the 2006 season, Martin had compiled a record of 1,391 wins, 472 losses and four ties over 26 seasons of collegiate coaching. Ten games into his 26th season, on February 25, 2006, …
- Leonard Hamilton
Leonard Hamilton is the head basketball coach at Florida State University. He is a former coach at Oklahoma State University and the University of Miami. He also coached the NBA's Washington Wizards for one season. His all-time record is 265-268, while appearing in 6 NITs and 3 NCAA tournaments. Also he has been to the Sweet 16. While with the Wizards he went 19-63. Hamilton played college ball at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
- T. K. Wetherell
Dr. Thomas Kent "T. K." Wetherell (December 22, 1945 -) is a Florida educational administrator and former politician. He has been president of Florida State University (FSU) since January 6, 2003.
- Jimbo Fisher
Jimbo Fisher (born October 9, 1965, in Clarksburg, West Virginia) is an American college football coach and former player who was the NCAA Division III National Player of the Year as a senior. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at LSU from 2000 until 2007. He is currently the offensive coordinator at Florida State University.
- Mel Martinez
Melquíades Rafael "Mel" Martínez is a Cuban-American, who is currently the junior United States Senator from Florida and the General Chairman of the Republican Party. Previously, Martinez served as the 12th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush. Martinez is Catholic. Martinez resigned his cabinet post on December 12, 2003 to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Bob Graham.
- Gary Kleck
Gary Kleck (born March 2 1951) is a criminologist at Florida State University who is an expert on the links between guns, violence and gun control laws in the United States. He has done statistical analysis of crime in the United States and argues that while in 1993 there were about four hundred thousand crimes committed with guns, there were approximately 2.5 million crimes in which victims used guns for self-protection.
- Xavier Lee
Xavier Lee (born January 9, 1986) is the substitute quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles football team at Florida State University. Lee started for the injured Drew Weatherford on October 28, 2006 on the road at Maryland. He also started and won his first game on Saturday, November 4th at home against Virginia. His brother Anthony Kelly is currently a linebacker for the Seminoles. He went to Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach, …
- Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England) is a philosopher of science, working on the philosophy of the biology, and is well known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. He was born in England, took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970).
- Charlie Ward
Charlie Ward (born October 12, 1970 in Thomasville, Georgia) is an American football, basketball, and baseball player. Ward won the 1993 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for Florida State University, and subsequently led the Seminoles to their first-ever National Championship when FSU defeated Nebraska 18-16 in the 1994 Orange Bowl. The Seminoles had suffered their only defeat of the season to a second-ranked Notre Dame team, …
- Harold Kroto
Professor Kroto is a distinguished scientist, humanist and designer born in Cambridgeshire to parents who moved to the UK from Germany in the late 1930s. His father was interned during World War II and he and his mother moved to Bolton in 1940. Professor Kroto's father was an engineer, who in 1955 established his own balloon-making factory.
- Derrick Brooks
Derrick Dewan Brooks (born April 18, 1973 in Pensacola, Florida) plays professional football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. Brooks, an outside linebacker, starred at Washington High School in Pensacola and later at Florida State University, where he was a four-year letterman and was first-team All-American his senior year. He was selected in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft by Tampa Bay.
- Sandy D'Alemberte
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte (born June 1, 1933) is a lawyer, professor, former politician, former educational administrator, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University (FSU), from 1994 to 2003.
- Antone Smith
Antone Smith (born in Pahokee, Florida) is a tailback with the Florida State University NCAA football team. He signed with Florida State after his senior season at Pahokee High School ended in 2005. In his senior year of high school, Smith led Pahokee to the state football title and rushed for 276 yards and three touchdowns in the championship game, finishing with an outstanding 2814 yards and 44 touchdowns on the season.
- Dean Falk
An undergraduate anthropology course more than 30 years ago triggered a curiosity in Falk that has made her one of the world's leading experts on brain evolution. She is among a group of anthropologists who pioneered the use of magnetic resonance imaging to study the skulls of ancient humans.
- David Kirby
David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Kirby obtained his Ph.D. in 1969 from Johns Hopkins University. He lives with his wife and fellow poet Barbara Hamby in Tallahassee, Florida. Kirby has taught at FSU's international campuses in Florence, Paris, Valencia, and elsewhere. Kirby has published over 20 books, including collections of poetry, and literary criticism.
- Anders Ericsson
Dr. K. Anders Ericsson is Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading theoretical and experimental researchers on expertise. He is the co-editor of "The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance", a volume released in 2006. Dr.
- Roy Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister is the Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is an eminent social psychologist known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and aggression. He has authored nearly 300 publications and has written 15 books including his most recent work, "The Cultural Animal".
- 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.
- Mickey Andrews
Mickey Andrews is an American college football coach. He is the Associate Head Coach and Defensive coordinator at Florida State University beginning his career in 1984.
- Doron Nof
Doron Nof is an American academic scientist who has published on various aspects of physical oceanography, including flows through straits and passages, boundary current dynamics, upwelling in coastal regions, the dynamics of eddies in the upper and deep ocean, equatorial dynamics, general circulation problems, and cross-equatorial flows. He is presently the Distinguished Nansen Professor of Physical Oceanography at Florida State University.
- Thomas Joiner
Thomas Joiner is an American academic psychologist and leading expert on suicide. He is presently the Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, where he operates his Laboratory for the Study of the Psychology and Neurobiology of Mood Disorders, Suicide, and Related Conditions. He is author of "Why People Die by Suicide" (Harvard University Press 2006).
- Anquan Boldin
Anquan Kenmile Boldin (born October 3, 1980 in Pahokee, Florida) is an American football player for the NFL Arizona Cardinals. In 2003, Boldin was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the 2003 NFL Draft out of Florida State University. He was drafted in the 2nd round because of his relatively slow combine speed: a 4.71 40 yard dash. He is the cousin of CFL All-Star defensive back Korey Banks
- Alec Yasinsac
Alec Yasinsac is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Florida State University. Yasinsac was awarded his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia, where his doctoral advisor was William Wulf. He received the Master of Science in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Appalachian State University.
- Drew Weatherford
Andrew S. (Drew) Weatherford is a quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles at Florida State University.
- Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler (b. January 20, 1945) is a fiction writer who has written novels and short story collections. He resides in Tallahassee, Florida, where he teaches at Florida State University. He has published ten novels and four volumes of short fiction, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" (1992).
- Sue Semrau
Sue Semrau is the head women's basketball coach at Florida State. She has compiled a 136-129 career record over 9 seasons. She has guided the Seminoles to 5 straight NCAA Postseason appearances. She guided the team to back-to-back 20 win seasons for the first time in school history.
- Brad Johnson
James Bradley Johnson (born September 13, 1968 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American football quarterback in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys. He has also played for the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Washington Redskins over his career.
- Greg Jones
Greg Jones (born April 4, 1981 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American football running back who plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jones attended Battery Creek High School in Beaufort, South Carolina, where he earned all-state honors on offense and defense. Initially recruited as an All-State Linebacker, he played for Florida State, rushing for 2,535 yards and 23 touchdowns in his college career. He is sixth for all-time rushing yards at FSU.
- Sam Cassell
Samuel (Sam) James Cassell (born November 18, 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. Cassell was selected 24th overall by the Houston Rockets in the 1993 NBA Draft out of Florida State University. He helped them win two NBA Championships in 1994 and 1995. After the 1995-96 season, he was traded to the Phoenix Suns, but his tenure there was brief.
- Walter Dix
Walter Dix of Coral Springs, Florida, United States of America is an American sprinter. Walter attends Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is a seven-time NCAA champion, 2005 outdoor 100 m, 2006 indoor and outdoor 200 m, 2007 indoor 200 m, outdoor 100 m, 200 m, and 4x100 meter relay. In the 2007 NCAA East Regional final he set the all-time collegiate record of 19.69 in the 200, …
- 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, …
- Peter Warrick
Peter Warrick (born June 19 1977 in Bradenton, Florida, USA), commonly known by fellow teammates and fans as "P-Dub" attended Southeast High School and is an American football wide receiver who last played for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals out of Florida State University with the fourth overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft after a stellar collegiate career.
- Max Gunzburger
Max D. Gunzburger, Frances Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, is an American mathematician and computational scientist. He is also affiliated with the interdisciplinary School of Computational Science. His research contributions include flow control, finite element analysis, and Voronoi tesselations. After completing his BS degree at New York University in 1966, Gunzburger earned his Ph.D. degree from the same University in 1969.
- Ernie Sims
Ernie Sims III (born December 23, 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida) is an American football player for the Detroit Lions, who played outside linebacker for the Florida State University Seminoles. His father Ernie Sims Jr., played football under head coach Bobby Bowden at Florida State in 1977, 1978, 1980 and 1981. His mother, Alice Sims, formerly Alice Bennett, was an All-American sprinter on the Florida State track and field team from 1980 through 1983.
- Adrian McPherson
Adrian Jamal (A.D.) McPherson (born May 8, 1983 in Bradenton, Florida, USA) is an American football quarterback formerly of the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He was selected with the 16th pick of the fifth round (152nd overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Florida State University although he had not attended the school in over two years. A former Florida Mr. Basketball and Mr.
- Lorenzo Booker
Lorenzo Booker (born June 14, 1984 in Oxnard, California) 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 third round (71st overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Florida State.
- Allen Boyd
F. Allen Boyd Jr. (born June 6 1945) is an American politician, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing (map). His district includes all of Bay, Gulf, Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Gadsden, Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Suwannee, Lafayette, and Dixie Counties. The district also includes most of Leon and Jefferson Counties. Allen Boyd is a Blue Dog Democrat.
- Jenn Sterger
Jennifer "Jenn" Lynette Sterger (born November 29, 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a Florida State University student and online columnist for "Sports Illustrated". Sterger rose to fame after she was shown on national television during the 2005 Florida State-Miami football game.