- Lamar Dodd
Lamar Dodd (September 22, 1909 - September 26, 1996) was a U.S. painter whose work reflected a love of the American South. Born in Fairburn, Georgia to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland (Ed Dodd, creator of the Mark Trail comic strip, was his first cousin), and reared in LaGrange, Georgia, Dodd trained in the South, including a short stay at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
- Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 - December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the second-longest serving Secretary of State, behind Cordell Hull. Dean Rusk Middle School in Canton, Georgia is named in his honor.
- Henry F. Schaefer III
Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
- Brent Berlin
Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist. He is most famous for his work with linguist Paul Kay on colour: "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" (1969) ISBN 1575861623.
- Eugene Odum
Eugene Pleasants Odum (1913-2002) was an American scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. The average schoolchild of today knows that humans (along with other life forms) depend on adequate conditions of food, water, and shelter from inclement elements, for instance, and also that weather, geological, and biological factors (among others) are involved in the web of life that affords this environment.
- Michael Bishop
Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy literature. Bishop received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 1967 before going on to complete a master's degree in English.
- W. R.
William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in Mathematics from Tulane University (1963), and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, …
- Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book "Paradox in Chesterton".
- Levon Ambartsumian
Levon Ambartsumian (b. 1955; Russian: Лево́н Амбарцумя́н; Armenian: Լևոն Համբարձումյան) is Armenian Russian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States. Levon Ambartsumian studied in the Moscow Central Music School and then in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers were Mikhail Garlitsky, Felix Andrievski, Yuri Yankelevich, Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny.
- Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 - October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. He served as a five-term Congressman and in the Presidential Cabinet of James Buchanan and then in the civic and military service of Civil War-era Georgia and the Confederate States of America.
- Jeffrey Bennetzen
Jeffrey Lynn Bennetzen is an American geneticist on the faculty of the University of Georgia (UGA). He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1974 and his doctoral degree in biochemistry from the University of Washington in 1980. After earning his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral fellow from 1980 through 1981 at Washington University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
- Carl Pomerance
Carl Pomerance (born in 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is a well known number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 for his study that any odd perfect number N has at least 7 distinct prime factors. He immediately joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, becoming full professor in 1982. He subsequently worked at Lucent Technologies for a number of years, …
- Norman Allinger
Norman "Lou" Allinger is an American computational chemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. Professor Allinger received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1951 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1954. He was on the faculty at Wayne State University before coming to the University of Georgia as Research Professor in 1969.
- Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell (born 17 February 1942) is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of Georgia. He is author and proponent of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (UNTB), which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities. Dr. Hubbell is also a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama. Stephen Hubbell was born in Gainesville, Florida.
- Edward Larson
Edward John Larson is an American historian and legal scholar. Now a law professor at Pepperdine University, he was formerly Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia. He won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book "Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion".
- Timothy Gantz
Timothy Nolan Gantz (born about 1946, died January 20 2004) was a classical scholar, the author of "Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources" 1993. Dr Gantz (A.B. Haverford College 1967, PhD Princeton University 1970) was a long-time Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia from 1970; he directed its Studies Abroad in Rome program from 1985. He died in Athens, Georgia.
- Richard Elliott Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman is a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He joined the faculty of the UGA Religion Department in 2006. Prior to his appointment there, he was the Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization: Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at UCSD from 1994 until 2006. Dr.
- Joel Black
Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism, postmodernism, philosophy and history of science, and cultural studies. He is the author of "The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture" (1991) and "The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative" (2002).
- Mia Bloom
Mia Mellissa Bloom (1968-) is the author of a book entitled "Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror". She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati and consulted for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Counter Terrorism. She is currently an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
- Coleman Barks
Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer (born Judith Ortiz in 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico), is an acclaimed Puerto Rican author. Her works span a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young Adult novels. Cofer came to the United States in 1956 when her family moved to Paterson, New Jersey, though her family often made back-and-forth trips between Paterson and Hormigueros. In 1967, her family moved to Augusta, Georgia, …
- Charles Herty
Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, Sr. (December 4, 1867 - July 27, 1938) was an American academic, scientist and businessman. Serving in academia as a chemistry professor to begin his career, Herty concurrently promoted collegiate athletics including creating the first varsity football team at the University of Georgia. His academic research gravitated towards applied chemistry where he revolutionized the turpentine industry in the United States.
- Lyman Ray Patterson
Lyman Ray Patterson (18 February 1929 - 5 November 2003) was an American law professor and an influential copyright scholar and historian. Patterson was born in Macon, Georgia. He graduated from Mercer University, and obtained a masters degree in English from Northwestern University, After teaching English at Middle Georgia College, he joined the Army where he studied Russian at the Army Language School.
- Andrew Granville
Andrew Granville is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory. He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at University of Georgia (UGA) from 1991 until 2002. He was a section speaker in the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians together with Dr. Carl Pomerance from UGA.
- Lawrence H. White
Lawrence H. White is the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History with the University of Missouri–St. Louis Economics department. He has held this position since August 2000 and teaches classes on American Economic History, Monetary Theory, and Money and Banking. Before coming to UMSL He held positions as Assistant Professor at New York University and Associate Professor at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
- Reginald McKnight
Reginald McKnight is an American short story author and novelist. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award. In addition to writing, McKnight has been a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently the Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens.
- Bertis Downs IV
Bertis Edwin Downs, IV (born July 13 1956) originally provided legal counsel (particularly for initial contracts) and then became both counselor and manager for the rock band R.E.M., taking over from the band's long-term manager Jefferson Holt. He is usually credited simply as the band's "Advisor". It was R.E.M.'s now-retired drummer, Bill Berry, who instigated Downs' connection with the band.
- Joseph Leconte
Joseph Le Conte (February 26 1823 - June 6 1901) was an American geologist. Of Huguenot descent, he was born in Liberty County, Georgia to Louis Le Conte, patriarch of the noted Le Conte family. He was educated at Franklin College in Athens, Georgia (now the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia), where he graduated in 1841; he afterwards studied medicine and received his degree at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845.
- Susan R. Wessler
Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D. (1953-) is an American plant molecular biologist and geneticist. She is on the faculty of the University of Georgia (UGA). Wessler was born in New York City. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. She received her bachelor's degree in 1974 in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1980.
- William Tate
William Tate (September 21, 1903 - September 21, 1980) served as the Dean of Men at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia from 1946 until 1971. Tate was born in 1903 in Calhoun, Georgia. In 1920 he graduated from the Georgia Military Academy and entered UGA as a freshman, majoring in English and History. While at UGA, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.
- Freddy Wittop
Freddy Wittop was a Tony Award-winning costume designer. He also enjoyed secondary careers as a dancer and college professor. Born Frederick Wittop Koning in Bussum, the Netherlands, Wittop emigrated with his family to Brussels, where he apprenticed at the age of thirteen with the resident designer at the Brussels Opera. Moving to Paris in 1931, he designed for the Folies Bergère and other music halls, creating costumes for Mistinguett and Josephine Baker, among others.
- Bob McWhorter
Robert Ligon "Bob" McWhorter played football and baseball at the University of Georgia. As a halfback, he scored 61 touchdowns from 1910 to 1913. In 1913, McWhorter became UGA’s first All-American. He was the captain of both the baseball and football teams in his senior year. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, Phi Kappa Literary Society, and Phi Beta Kappa at Georgia. Although he was offered a professional baseball contract, …
- John Le Conte
John Le Conte was an American scientist and academic. Le Conte was born in Liberty County, Georgia to Louis Le Conte, patriarch of the noted Le Conte family. He attended Franklin College at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and graduated in 1838. His younger brother Joseph Le Conte also attended the University.
- Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn (1 March 1914-7 June 2006) was born in Lwow, in what was then Austria-Hungary, later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at John Casimir University in Lwow in 1939, escaping to the United States two weeks before the Nazi invasion of Poland. He was a longtime scholar of international law and advocate of international institutions.
- Mary M. Frasier
Mary M. Frasier (May 17, 1938, South Carolina - February 3, 2005, Athens, Georgia) was a famous African American educator who specialized in the area of gifted education at the University of Georgia. She developed the Frasier Traits, Aptitudes, and Behaviors (F-TAB), which is an instrument used by many school systems to identify children for gifted educational services.
- William M. Browne
William Montague Browne (July 71827 - April 281883) was a prominent Confederate politician, as well as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Browne was born in Dublin, County Mayo, Ireland, and served in the British Army during the Crimean War. He later emigrated to the southern United States. He served as Acting Confederate Secretary of State and as aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis.
- Scott Cutlip
Scott Munson Cutlip (July 15, 1915 in Buckhannon, Upshur Co., West Virginia - August 18, 2000 in Madison, Dane Co., Wisconsin) was a pioneer in public relations education. He was the son of Okey Scott Cutlip and Janet Munson. He married Erna K. Flader on May 21, 1947. Cutlip served as dean of the University of Georgia "Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication" from 1976 to 1983.
- Allan Armitage
Allan M. Armitage is professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he teaches, conducts research, and runs the University of Georgia Horticulture Gardens—producing annual guidelines for annuals and perennials suitable for heat and humidity. Allan travels widely as a lecturer and consultant and has received numerous awards from nursery trade groups and horticultural organizations, including the Medal of Honor from the Garden Club of America.
- Sammy Nestico
Samuel "Sammy" Lewis Nestico (born February 6, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a prolific and well known composer and arranger of big band music. Nestico is most known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra.
- R. Travis Osborne
Robert Travis Osborne (born 1913) is a professor emeritus of psychology at University of Georgia. He began at University of Georgia in 1946 and was appointed Director of the University's Counseling and Testing Center in 1947. He was interested in psychometrics and counseling. When licensing laws for psychologists in Georgia were enacted, his license was number 15.