- Frank Porter Graham
Frank Porter Graham (14 October 1886 - 16 February 1972) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of North Carolina. Born in Fayetteville in south central North Carolina in 1886, Graham graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1909. He thereafter studied law and received his licence in 1913. He received a graduate degree in 1916 from Columbia University in New York City.
- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics.
- James Moeser
James Moeser is the current chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a trained concert organist. Moeser began his work as chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill on August 15, 2000. He has since overseen and introduced many historic changes and improvements for the university, including the Carolina Covenant, Carolina First Campaign, Carolina Connects Initiative, expansions of current genome research at the university, …
- Mike Easley
Michael Francis (Mike) Easley (born March 23, 1950) is the current governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina. He is a Democrat and North Carolina's second Catholic governor. Thomas Burke was the first, though Easley is the first elected by popular vote. Easley was raised a Roman Catholic in otherwise overwhelmingly Protestant Nash County, North Carolina. His father, Alexander Easley, owned one of the two big tobacco warehouses in the area.
- Dean Smith
Dean Edwards Smith is a retired head coach of men’s college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) for 36 years. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and finished his career with a record of 879 wins, …
- Michael Jordan
Mike's wife Jill is a mathematician, recently achieving her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. They are expecting their first child in late April or early May 2006. Mike is a graduate of Houghton College in New York and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ.
- Paul Jones
Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio, a contributor-run, digital library of public domain and creative commons media, run out of the Office of Information Technology Service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Roy Williams
Roy Williams (born August 1, 1950 in Marion, North Carolina) is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging about an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003. He is second all-time for most wins at Kansas behind Phog Allen, and third all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage.
- Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been teaching for over 15 years. He completed his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and received his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to taking his position at UNC, Professor Ehrman taught at Rutgers University.
- Holden Thorp
H. Holden Thorp is currently the Kenan Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his B.S in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1986. Three years later, he obtained his Ph.D from California Institute of Technology. He was also a postdoctoral associate in Yale University from 1989-90. His research is primarily focused on developing a new biological applications of transition-metal redox chemistry.
- Howard W. Odum
Howard Washington Odum (born May 24, 1884 near Bethlehem, Georgia; died November 8, 1954 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American sociologist. He graduated from Emory University and received his first doctorate, in psychology, at Clark University. He received his second doctorate, in sociology, at Columbia University. He went on to served as Assistant Director of Research for President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends, wrote three novels, …
- David Price
David Eugene Price (born August 17 1940) is a professor and politician currently serving as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 4th district of North Carolina.(map)
- William C. Friday
William Clyde "Bill" Friday was born on July 13, 1920 in Raphine, VA. He was raised in Dallas, NC. He served as the head of the University of North Carolina system from 1956 to 1986. Friday graduated from Dallas High School in Dallas, NC where he played baseball and basketball. He holds a bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University and a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His entire professional life was spent in higher education.
- Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, …
- Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioural Economics at Duke University and a visiting Professor at MIT's Media Lab. He is an expert on how people actually act (irrationally)-and why they act-in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy and marketing. Ariely is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Predictably Irrational . Few heavy thinkers are as funny or as engaging as he is.
- John Motley Morehead
John Motley Morehead (4 July 1796 - 27 August 1866) was Whig governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1841 to 1845. He is known as "the Father of Modern North Carolina." Born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Morehead moved to Rockingham County, North Carolina at the age of two. Morehead graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1817 and trained as a lawyer.
- Elisha Mitchell
Elisha Mitchell (August 19, 1793 - June 27, 1857) was born in Washington, Connecticut. As a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1835, he measured the height of Mt. Mitchell. Mt. Mitchell is the highest point east of the Mississippi River. It is located in North Carolina and is 6,684 feet (2,037 m) high. Elisha Mitchell fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.
- Hugh Morton
Hugh Morton (February 19 1921-June 1 2006) was a photographer and nature conservationist who developed Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Morton was well-known in North Carolina as a fan of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sports and friend of many influential North Carolinians who was able to capture pictures of them in casual settings. Morton authored two books of his photography: "Hugh Morton's North Carolina" (University of North Carolina Press, …
- John Williams
John Williams (March 14, 1731 - October 10, 1799) was a signer of the United States' Articles of Confederation. He was one of the founders of the University of North Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a colonel in the North Carolina militia. In 1777 and 1778, Williams was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons and served as Speaker of the House. Williams was a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779.
- William S. Newman
William Stein Newman (April 6, 1912 - April 27, 2000) was an American musicologist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1945 he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is best remembered for his three volume "History of the Sonata Idea", a study of the term "sonata" comprising "The Sonata in the Baroque Era", "The Sonata in the Classical Era", and "The Sonata Since Beethoven". He also wrote on performance practice.
- Joseph Caldwell
Joseph Caldwell, was a U.S. educator, Presbyterian minister, and mathematician. He was the first president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holding the office from 1804 until 1812, and from 1817 until his death in 1835. He was born in Lamington, New Jersey. Caldwell County, North Carolina is named for him.
- Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 - November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945-53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61) associated with defense and national security. Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray, Sr. and Nathalie Lyons Gray. He was married in 1938 to the former Jane Boyden Craige, and they had four sons: Gordon Gray, Jr., Burton Gray, C. Boyden Gray and Bernard Gray.
- Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar (born May 5, 1983 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American citizen who confessed to intentionally hitting people with a car on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide" and to "punish" the United States government. While no one was killed in the attack, nine people were injured (none seriously). Shortly after the attack, he turned himself in and was arrested. He currently awaits trial.
- Tyler Hansbrough
Andrew Tyler Hansbrough (born November 3 1985 in Columbia, Missouri), nicknamed "Psycho T", is an American collegiate basketball player for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball team. Hansbrough was a member of the 2006 and 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference All Conference Team and the 2006 ACC Freshman of the Year.
- George Moses Horton
George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) was an African-American slave who composed poetry. He was born into slavery on a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, North Carolina, and composed poems in his mind through his teen years. He was allowed by his master to visit the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he recited poems to students who eagerly wrote them down and paid him for his compositions.
- Charlie Rose
Charles Grandison (Charlie) Rose III (born August 10 1939) was a Democratic United States Congressman who served from 1973 to 1997. Rose was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College, earning his LL.B., and he received his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years, Rose practiced as a lawyer, and in 1970, he became a prosecutor for Raleigh district courts.
- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- Oliver
William Oliver Swofford (February 22, 1945-February 12, 2000), known as Oliver, was an American pop singer. Born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, he began singing as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1960s. He was a member of two music groups: The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth.
- William B. Umstead
William Bradley Umstead (13 May 1895 - 7 November 1954) was a U.S. Senator and the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.
- Kevin Martin
Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born December 14 1966) is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30 2001, and was confirmed on May 25 2001. President Bush renominated Martin to a new five year term on April 25 2006, and he was reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 17 2006.
- Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her 1987 debut, "Ellen Foster", received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the The Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and two of her books, …
- Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering. Levoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under Donald Greenberg at Cornell University. He received his B.Arch. in 1976 and M.S. in Architecture in 1978. He developed a 2D computer animation system as part of his studies, …
- Joe Hackney
Joe Hackney (born September 23, 1945 in Chatham County, NC) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-fourth House district, including constituents in Chatham, Orange, and Moore counties. A farmer and attorney from Chapel Hill, Hackney is currently (2007-2008 session) serving in his fourteenth term in the state House of Representatives and is the Speaker of the House.
- Charles Kurzman
Charles Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent research is in the area of Islamic studies. He is an author of several books and many articles. Among his most prominent publications are: * "The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran" * "Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and Constitutionalism in the Developing World"
- Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) is a children's author who wrote the Magic Tree House book series for children. She has written more than one hundred books for children and teenagers. The Magic Tree House series is illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca. Mary Pope Osborne grew up in a military family. Her father, William Pope, was a Colonel in the United States Army, and as such his family frequently moved from one military base to another.
- Francis Collins
Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). With Collins at the helm, the HGP has attained several milestones, while running ahead of schedule and under budget. A working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000, …
- William Miller
William Miller (1770 -- 1825) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1814 to 1817. Born in Warren County, North Carolina, William Miller was orphaned at the age of 22 and inherited a substantial plantation. He briefly attended the University of North Carolina in 1802, but did not complete a degree. He began practicing law in 1805 and was named North Carolina Attorney General in 1810.
- Matt Cutts
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's take on Adword sales and this is a nice customer self-service model for Google that doesn't force them to do anything.
- Mel Watt
Melvin Luther (Mel) Watt (born August 26, 1945), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the Twelfth District of North Carolina (map). Born in Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Watt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University Law School. He served a single term in the North Carolina Senate (1985-1986), …
- Chuck Stone
Chuck Stone (born July 21, 1924) is a former Tuskegee Airman, an American newspaper editor, columnist, and professor of journalism. In the 1940s, he was the first African-American undergraduate in several decades at Wesleyan University, graduating in the class of 1948. He was the first president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ, 1975-1977). According to his brief biography on the NABJ site, "Because of his reputation for integrity, …