- Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He received a B.A. and B.S. from Furman University, an M.A. from Duke University, a Ph.D. from Caltech, and is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. - Tom Mastny
Thomas Raymond "Tom" Mastny (b. February 4, 1981 in East Bontang, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo) is a right-handed relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He made his major league debut with the Indians on July 25, 2006. He stands 6 feet, 6 inches in height and weighs 220 pounds. Mastny is the first Indonesian-born player in Major League history, although he was raised in Zionsville, Indiana, where he played for Zionsville High School. - Richard Riley
Richard Wilson Riley (born January 2, 1933), American politician, was the United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton as well as the Governor of South Carolina, as a member of the Democratic Party. Born in Greenville County, South Carolina, Riley graduated with honors from Furman University in 1954. He then served in the Navy from 1954-55. Later in 1959 he received a law degree from the University of South Carolina. - Victoria Jackson
Victoria Jackson (b. August 2, 1959, in Miami, Florida) is an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" from 1986 to 1992. Raised by devoted Christians in home without a TV, she was trained in gymnastics by her gym-coach father from ages 5 to 18. Jackson attended a private Christian high school, Dade Christian School, where she was a cheerleader and the Homecoming Queen. - John Michael McConnell
Vice Admiral John Michael "Mike" McConnell, USN Ret., (born July 26, 1943) has served as the United States Director of National Intelligence since 20 February 2007. He also served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996, and as an admiral in the United States Navy. - Ben Browder
Robert Benedic Browder, better known as Ben Browder (born December 11, 1962) is an American film and television actor, who garnered minor feature film and television roles before accepting a lead role on the sci-fi TV series "Farscape" and later "Stargate SG-1". - Mark Sanford
Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford, Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American Republican politician who has been Governor of South Carolina since 2003. - Sam Wyche
Samuel David Wyche (born January 5, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American football player and head coach, who is best known as the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Perhaps best known for introducing the use of the No-huddle offense as a standard offense (as opposed to use at the end of the half), Wyche's greatest achievement as a head coach was leading the Cincinnati Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII, which they lost to the San Francisco 49ers 20-16. - Bruce Fleisher
Bruce Lee Fleisher (born October 16 1948) is an American golfer. Fleisher was born in Union City, Tennessee. He attended Miami-Dade Junior College and Furman University. He won the U.S. Amateur in 1968 and turned professional in 1969. As a club professional, he won the PGA Professional National Championship once. His regular tournament career was modest, with one win on the PGA Tour, namely the 1991 New England Classic, and a few wins in minor tournaments. - Dottie Pepper
Dottie Pepper (b. 17 August 1965, Saratoga Springs, New York) is an American golfer. From 1988 to 1995 she competed as Dottie Mochrie, which was her married name before a divorce. Pepper attended Furman University where she earned five collegiate victories and was named All-American three times. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1988 and won seventeen official events on the Tour, including two major championships: the 1992 and 1999 Kraft Nabisco Championships. - Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart (born November 7, 1959, Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.) is an orchestral conductor. He is the current music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, taking over from John Williams in 1995. Before taking the helm of the Boston Pops, Lockhart was associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lockhart is an alumnus of Furman University, and of the Brevard Music Center, … - Brad Faxon
Brad Faxon (born August 1 1961) is an American golfer. Faxon was born in Oceanport, New Jersey. He attended Furman University and turned professional in 1983. He has won eight times on the PGA Tour and played on two Ryder Cup teams. While admittedly not a great driver of the golf ball or a great ball-striker, Faxon has built a reputation as one of the best pure putters in golf history. He led the PGA Tour in Putting Average in 1996, 1999, … - Drew Moor
Drew Moor (born January 15, 1984 in Dallas, Texas) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. Drew Moor attended the Episcopal School of Dallas. Moor played college soccer for Furman University in 2002, before transferring to Indiana University, where he played for two seasons. He started every game during his college career and helped the Hoosiers to back-to-back National Championships. - Beth Daniel
Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a professional golfer. As an amateur, Beth Daniel won the 1975 and 1977 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championships. Turning professional, she was the leading money winner on the LPGA Tour in 1980, 1981 and 1990 and finished in the top ten on the money list twelve times in total between 1980 and 2003. In 1990 she was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. - John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878-September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He is known for having claimed that he could take any 12 healthy infants and, by applying behavioral techniques, create whatever kind of person he desired. He also conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment. - Cecil Staton
Cecil Staton (born January 26, 1958) is a politician in the U.S. state of Georgia. He is a member of the Republican Party and serves in the Georgia Senate as representative of the 18th district. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Staton graduated from Carolina High School in 1976, where he served as President of the student body. He graduated from Furman University in Greenville in 1980. - Baron Hill
Baron Paul Hill (born June 23, 1953) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for. He previously represented the district from 1999 until 2005. Baron Hill belongs to the Blue Dog Democrats. - Maurice Bloomfield
Maurice Bloomfield, Ph. D., LL.D. was an American philologist and Sanskrit scholar. Bloomfield was born in Bielitz, in what was at that time Austrian Silesia (today it is in Poland). His sister was Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. He went to the United States in 1867, and ten years later graduated from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. He then studied Sanskrit at Yale, under W. D. Whitney, and at Johns Hopkins University, … - Nick Theodore
Nick Andrew Theodore (born September 16, 1928) is a South Carolina politician who was a state representative from 1963 to 1966 and 1970 to 1978, a South Carolina state senator from 1967 to 1968 and 1981 to 1986, and the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Theodore attended the University of Georgia and graduated in 1952 from Furman University with a bachelor of arts. - Clement Haynsworth
Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr. was a United States judge and an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court. Haynsworth was born in Greenville, South Carolina and he was a graduate of Furman University. Haynsworth was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on February 19, 1957 and he was confirmed shortly afterwards. Haynsworth was nominated to the Supreme Court on August 21, … - Roger C. Peace
Roger Craft Peace was a United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, he attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University in 1919. He was a newspaper reporter, sports editor, editor, business manager, and publisher in Greenville. During the First World War he served as an instructor in the United States Army at Camp Perry in 1918. - Ingle Martin
Harry Ingle Martin IV (born August 15, 1982) is an American football Quarterback currently playing for the Green Bay Packers franchise of the National Football League. He was selected in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Furman University and made the Packer roster as the third-string QB behind Aaron Rodgers and long standing veteran Brett Favre. - John Barry Nusum
John Barry Nusum (born March 18, 1981 in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda) is a Bermudian soccer player, who, as of 2005, plays striker for the Virginia Beach Mariners of the USL First Division and the Philadelphia Kixx of the MISL. Nusum played college soccer at Furman University, where he was thrice named an NSCAA All-American; he is also currently the school's all time leader in goals scored, with 61, and points, with 161. - Albert Ernest Radford
Albert Ernest Radford (25 January 1918 - 12 April 2006) was an American botanist active in the Southeastern United States. He was best known for his work as senior author of "Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas", the definitive flora for North Carolina and South Carolina. He was born in Augusta, Georgia to Albert and Eloise Moseley Radford, one of nine children. He was educated at Junior College of Augusta, Furman University (B.S., … - Alexander Stubb
Alexander Stubb (born on 1 April 1968 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the National Coalition Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He received the second highest number of votes of any parliamentarian in the 2004 EU election (115,224 votes). - Brad Cox
Brad Cox is a computer scientist and Ph.D. of mathematical biology known mostly for his work in software engineering (specifically software reuse), software componentry, and the Objective-C programming language. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Organic Chemistry and Mathematics from Furman University, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago. Cox wrote: - Joseph H. Earle
Joseph Haynsworth Earle (April 30, 1847 - May 20, 1897) was a United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, he attended private schools in Sumter and at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army. He graduated from Furman University (Greenville) in 1867, taught school for two years, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Anderson. - Angel Martino
Angel Martino (born April 25, 1967 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is a former American swimmer. Over her career, she won three relay Olympic gold medals and three Olympic bronze medals. In addition to her Olympic medals, she won twelve Pan Pacific medals, seven Goodwill Games gold medals. She was a captain of the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming team. - Frank Selvy
Franklin Delano "Frank" Selvy (born November 9, 1932 in Corbin, Kentucky) is a former basketball player. - Herman Lay
Herman W. Lay (1909-1982) was a Nashville, Tennessee, USA businessman who started H.W. Lay Co., Inc., now part of the Frito-Lay corporation. Lay began his career as a 24-year-old delivery driver. As a travelling salesman for the Barrett Food Company, he delivered potato chips to his customers in his Ford Model A. Lay's territory eventually expanded and his profits began to grow. In 1934, he founded the H.W. Lay Distributing Company based in Atlanta, Georgia, … - Clint Dempsey
Clinton Drew "Clint" Dempsey a.k.a "deuce" (born March 9, 1983 in Nacogdoches, Texas) is an American soccer player who plays midfield and forward for Fulham of the Premier League and the United States national team. - Stanford Jennings
Stanford Jamison Jennings (born March 12, 1962 in Summerville, South Carolina) is a former American football running back in the NFL. Jennings played seven seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals (1984-1990), and one each for the New Orleans Saints (1991) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1992). He attended Furman University. Jennings returned a 93-yard kickoff for a touchdown in Super Bowl XXIII. Jennings finished his 9-season career with 1,250 rushing yards, … - David Whitehurst
Charles David Whitehurst (born April 27, 1955 in Baumholder, Germany) was a former professional football who was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 8th round of the 1977 NFL Draft. A 6'2" quarterback from Furman University, Whitehurst played his entire career for the Packers from 1977-1983. His son Charlie Whitehurst played quarterback for Clemson University and is currently with the San Diego Chargers. - Hans Einstein
Hans E Einstein (born February 3 1923) is the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever. He currently resides in Bakersfield, California, USA. He is related to Albert Einstein: Hans's grandfather and Albert were first cousins. - Edward Earl
Edward Arthur Earl (born 1964 in Brooklyn) is an American computer scientist and an author of WinProm program. B.S. in Chemistry and mathematics, Furman University, 1986 Ph.D. in Computational chemistry, University of Utah, 1992. He is a Principal Engineer in CACI Technologies, San Diego, California. - David Segal
David Hugh Segal (born 20 March,1937) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Peter Radford, David Jones and Neville Whitehead. Segal was also an excellent 200 meter sprinter. He was a European 200m silver medallist in 1958 and was British AAA 220 yard champion and record holder in 1958 and '59. - Derek Waugh
Derek Waugh is the head men's basketball coach at Stetson University. - John Calhoun Sheppard
John Calhoun Sheppard (July 5, 1850 - October 7, 1931) was Democratic Governor of South Carolina from July 10, 1886 to November 30, 1886. Sheppard was born in Edgefield County and attended Bethel Academy in Edgefield. Upon graduating from Furman University with a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1871. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1876 and became the Speaker of the House when his father-in-law, William H. Wallace, … - Sergei Raad
Sergei Raad (born August 3, 1982) is a Russian-born American soccer player currently midfielder for the Central Florida Kraze of the USL Premier Development League. Raad played college soccer at Furman University from 2000 to 2004, where he appeared in 62 games, notching 20 goals and 29 assists. Upon graduating he joined the now defunct A-League team, the Calgary Mustangs. With the Mustangs he played in 20 games with 4 goals and 2 assists. - Orlando Ruff
Orlando Ruff (born September 28, 1976 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Cleveland Browns. In college he played for Furman University, departing as the fourth player in school history with 488 career tackles. He was signed in 1999 as a free agent by the San Diego Chargers. He then played for the New Orleans Saints.
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