- Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.
- R. Gerald Turner
R. Gerald Turner is currently the President of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, TX. Previously he served as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss"). Turner graduated from Abilene Christian University with a B.S. in Psychology and from the University of Texas with an M.A. and a Ph.D.. Turner is co-chairman of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
- David Williams
David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980 in Arlington, Texas) is a professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player. He was a student at Princeton University and studied Economics at Southern Methodist University.
- Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center.
- Phil Bennett
Phil Bennett is the head football coach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Prior to taking over as head coach at SMU in 2002, he served as the defensive coordinator at Kansas State from 1999 to 2001. Bennett graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in education in 1978, and was a second-team All-Southwest Conference defensive end as a senior in 1977. He began his coaching career at A&M in 1979 as a part-time defensive ends coach.
- Matt Doherty
Matt Doherty (born February 25, 1962) is the head men's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. Doherty accepted the job in April 2006 after a year as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. He is best known for his tumultuous three-year stint as the head basketball coach at North Carolina from 2000 to 2003.
- Ravi Batra
Raveendra N. Batra (b. 27 June 1943) is a U.S. economist and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his best selling books "The Great Depression of 1990" and "Surviving the Great Depression of 1990". In the former book he predicted a sharp rise in the US stock market in the 1980s, followed by a cataclysmic drop and a depression in or around 1990.
- Craig James
Jesse Craig James (born January 2, 1961 in Jacksonville, Texas) is an American sports commentator for college football games on the ABC television network. Prior to becoming a sportscaster, James was a professional football player for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and for the Washington Federals of the United States Football League. James attended Stratford High School in Houston, Texas, …
- David Dillon
David Dillon is the CEO of Kroger in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1951, he graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1969. He is an Eagle Scout and was a senior patrol leader in Boy Scout Troop 301, of which his father was Scoutmaster. He attended the University of Kansas, where he was student body president. Dillon also attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.
- Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. Spelling currently holds the world record as the world's most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits.
- Charles Curran
The Rev. Charles E. Curran (b. March 30, 1934) is a dissident Catholic moral theologian. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas as the Elizabeth Scurlock Professor of Human Values.
- Algur H. Meadows
Algur H. Meadows was a Texas oil magnate and a philanthropist. The Meadows School of the Arts and the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University are named after him.
- Payne Stewart
William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 - October 25, 1999), was an American golfer who won three majors in his career, the last of which occurred only months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42. Stewart was born in Springfield, Missouri, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was always popular with fans, especially for his clothing, …
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House.
- Mark Baxter
Mark Baxter (1951-May 30 2005) was the director of the Maguire Energy Institute at SMU's Cox School of Business from 2001 until his death in 2005. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in 1974. Afterwards, he worked for the Marathon Oil Company, working especially in Russia and in the North Sea. When Mark A. Baxter, former director of the Maguire Energy Institute, died of a heart attack last May, …
- Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert "Sam" Johnson (born October 11, 1930) is an American politician. He currently is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Third District of Texas (map).
- Beth Henley
Beth Henley (born Elizabeth Becker Henley on May 8, 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American screenwriter, actress and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. She attended Southern Methodist University. Her most famous play, "Crimes of the Heart", was her first produced professionally. It opened at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and then moved to New York. "Crimes of the Heart" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, …
- Eugene McDermott
Eugene McDermott (1899-1973) was a co-founder of Texas Instruments. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with an M. E. degree. He received a masters in physics from Columbia University. His early work in petroleum exploration led to multiple papers and five patents. Along with Cecil Howard Green, H. B. Peacock, and J. E. Jonsson, he co-founded Texas Instruments in 1941. He was the Chairman of TI from 1951-1957, …
- Ralph Hall
Ralph Moody Hall (born May 3, 1923) is a United States Representative from the Fourth Congressional District in Texas (map). First elected in 1980, Hall is the ranking Republican of the Science Committee and a senior member of the the Energy and Commerce Committee. He is the dean of the Texas congressional delegation, as well as the oldest serving member of the House of Representatives.
- Roy M. Huffington
Roy M. Huffington was a Texas oilman, and former U.S Ambassador to Austria. Huffington was born in 1917. He graduated from Southern Methodist University and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from Harvard. After serving as Ensign to Lt. Commander with the United States Navy from 1942-1945, he returned to Texas in 1946 and worked as a field geologist for Humble Oil, now known as Exxon, …
- Michael Carter
Michael D'Andrea Carter, is a former U.S. Olympian track & field athlete and American pro football player. Carter is best known in track & field for setting the national high school record of 81 feet 3 ½ inches in the 12 pound shot put, adding more than nine feet to the record previous to Carter. He set this mark at the 1979 Golden West Invitational track & field meet while competing for Jefferson High School of Dallas, TX.
- James M. Collins
James Mitchell "Jim" Collins (April 29, 1916 - July 21, 1989) was a Republican who represented the Third Congressional District of Texas from 1969-1983. The district was based in Irving in Dallas County. Collins was born in Hallsville, Texas. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and from Harvard Business School, then entered the U.S. Army, serving as a Lieutenant in General Patton's Army during the Battle of the Bulge.
- Craig Flournoy
Craig Flournoy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for investigative reporting about racial segregation in East Texas. Flournoy currently teaches at Southern Methodist University.
- Radovan Kovacevic
Radovan Kovacevic is the director of the Southern Methodist University Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing. He holds 3 U.S. patents.
- Jerry Levias
Jerry LeVias was the first African-American scholarship athlete and football player in the Southwest Athletic Conference. Born in Beaumont, Texas, LeVias played quarterback for Hebert High School. LeVias was small, only 5'9" and 177 pounds, but made up for it with great speed. He was recruited to the Southern Methodist University in the spring of 1965 by Coach Hayden Fry.
- John Culberson
John Abney Culberson (born August 24, 1956), American politician, is a Republican congressman from Texas, representing that state's 7th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2001. The district takes in large portions of western Houston and surrounding Harris County. Culberson has been one of President Bush's staunchest allies regarding the war in Iraq.
- Larry Faulkner
Larry Faulkner was the twenty-seventh president of The University of Texas at Austin. Faulkner is, as of January 31, 2006, President of Houston Endowment, Inc. On June 30, 2005, he announced that he would step down from his post in the spring of 2006. In December 2005, William C. Powers was officially named his successor and took office in February 2006. On February 9, 2006, The University of Texas System Board of Regents named Faulkner president emeritus, …
- James Zumberge
James Herbert Zumberge was a geology professor and academic administrator. He served as the first president of Grand Valley State University from 1962 to 1969, the seventh president of Southern Methodist University from 1975 to 1980 and the ninth president of University of Southern California from 1980 to 1991. Arend Lubbers succeeded him as president of Grand Valley State, Dr. L. Donald Shields succeeded him as president of SMU, …
- Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was a philanthropist and a former mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her. Born in Houston, Texas, Annette Strauss graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1944. She moved to New York City where she received master's degrees in sociology and psychology from Columbia University. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
- Jon Koncak
Jon Francis Koncak (born May 17, 1963 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American former professional basketball player. A 7'0" center from Southern Methodist University, Koncak was selected with the 5th pick in the 1985 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. Koncak spent ten seasons with the Hawks (1985-1995), mainly in a reserve role, then concluded his career with the Orlando Magic. He retired in 1996 with career totals of 3,520 points and 3,856 rebounds.
- Hayden Fry
John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) was an NCAA Division I-A college football coach from 1962-1998 at SMU, North Texas, and the University of Iowa. He compiled a record of 232 wins, 178 losses, and 10 ties during his 37 year career as a head coach and has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
- Lonnie D. Kliever
Dr. Lonnie D. Kliever (1932 - 2004), was chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the Southern Methodist University (SMU). Kliever was educated at Hardin-Simmons University, Union Theological Seminary in New York, and Duke University, where he received a Ph.D. in Religion and Philosophy in 1963. After spending a total of thirteen years teaching at three different institutions (University of Texas at El Paso, Trinity University in San Antonio, …
- Kyle Rote
Kyle Rote Sr. was an American football player and sports announcer. In college, Rote played behind Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker at Southern Methodist University in 1948 and 1949. When Walker was forced to miss the 1949 game against the University of Notre Dame because of an injury, Rote replaced him as tailback in SMU's single wing and turned in a great triple-threat performance despite a 27-20 loss. He rushed for 115 yards, scored all three touchdowns, …
- Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell, was a Texas politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was later a U.S. Representative. He was the brother of Charles Cabell, who was deputy CIA director until he was forced to resign in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Cabell attended Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University. After returning from college, he founded, along with his brothers, Cabell's Inc., …
- Albert Outler
Albert Cook Outler (1908-1989) was a 20th century American Methodist theologian and philosopher. Outler is generally considered to be one of the most important Wesley scholars in the history of the Church as well as the first real United Methodist theologian. He was also a key figure in the 20th century ecumenical movement. Outler was born and raised in Georgia and was an ordained Methodist Elder who served in several appointments.
- Tony Garza
Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. (born 1958), an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, is the United States ambassador to Mexico. Garza, the grandson of Mexican immigrants to the U.S, graduated from Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, the seat of Cameron County on the Gulf of Mexico coast in far south Texas.
- Paige Davis
Mindy Paige Davis (born October 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and theater arts performer living in Manhattan. Davis attended Charles H. Bird Elementary School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin from first grade through part of fifth grade before moving to Texas. She graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Much of her training has been in musical theater as well as dancing, …
- Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated American television, stage and film actor best known for playing characters who are amiable, brainy, and/or clueless.
- Catherine Crier
An Emmy Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier joined Court TV's distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. She was recently named the Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a passion for justice, debates with her guests the provocative topics of the day.
- Patricia Richardson
Patricia Castle Richardson (born February 23 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA) is an American television and film actress best known for her role as Jill Taylor on "Home Improvement". She also starred in "The Parent Trap 3" as Cassie McGuire in 1989. Born to a Navy family, Richardson attended the Hockaday School for Girls in Dallas, Texas, and was a 1973 graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she was friends with classmate Beth Henley.