- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).
- James Madison
James Madison, Jr., was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.
- Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow.
- Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
- Al Groh
Al Groh is the current head coach of the University of Virginia college football team and the former head coach of the New York Jets of the NFL. Groh has over 38 years of professional and collegiate coaching experience; This history includes 13 seasons in the NFL, an NFL championship with the 1990 New York Giants, and over a decade of working under coach Bill Parcells. Groh, a 1962 graduate of Chaminade High School, …
- James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), and the fourth Virginian to hold the office. Monroe, a close ally of Thomas Jefferson, was a diplomat who supported the French Revolution. He played a leading role in the War of 1812 as secretary of war and secretary of state under James Madison. Elected in 1816, his administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), …
- Fred Singer
Siegfried Frederick Singer (born September 27, 1924 in Vienna) is an electrical engineer and physicist. He is best known as President and founder (in 1990) of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, which disputes the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change. Singer is also skeptical about the connection between CFCs and ozone depletion, between UV-B radiation and melanoma and between second hand smoke and lung cancer.
- John Warner
John William Warner (born February 18, 1927) is an American politician, who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and has served as the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Virginia since his appointment on January 2, 1979. He is one of the few World War II veterans left in the United States Senate. (the others are Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).)
- Pete Gillen
Pete Gillen joined CBS College Sports Network in 2005, and serves as a game and studio analyst. Gillen was formerly head basketball coach at University of Virginia, Xavier University and Providence College. In over two decades of college basketball coaching, he compiled a record of 392-221.
- Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s.
- Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan , a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001), and The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education , The New York Times Magazine , MSNBC.COM , Salon.com , openDemocracy.net , and The Nation .
- Dave Leitao
Dave Leitao (born May 18 1960) is the 10th and current University of Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball coach. The 6'7" forward was recruited by Jim Calhoun to play basketball at Northeastern University. From 1978 to 1982 Leitao played at Northeastern, where he averaged 6.0 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. The teams made it to the NCAA tournament twice, and posted an overall 79-34 record.
- Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.
- Patrick Michaels
Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D., (born February 15, 1950) is a Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. He has been the university's Climatologist for Virginia since 1980. His professional specialty was the influence of climate on agriculture. In interviews Michaels has said that he does not contest the basic scientific principles behind greenhouse warming and acknowledges that global mean temperature has increased in recent decades, …
- Bruce Arena
Bruce Arena has been confirmed as the new head coach of the New York Red Bulls. In addition, Arena, who last week lost his job as the coach of the USA national team, will also serve as the Red Bulls' sporting director. The New York native will oversee all of the club's soccer operations, including the first team, reserve and academy teams and youth development. Bruce Arena
- David Swanson
David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org / CensureBush.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org and KatrinaMarch.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, …
- Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a history of advancing progressive values in a traditionally Republican state. First elected Indiana governor at age 32-America's youngest governor at the time-he served two terms as Indiana's chief executive and is now in his second term in the United States Senate. Throughout his career in public service, Evan Bayh has been a common-sense pragmatist who focuses on innovative solutions to help tackle our toughest challenges at home and abroad.
- Monticello
Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. The house is of Jefferson's own design and is situated on the summit of an 850-foot-high peak in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna Gap.
- Julian Bond
Julian Bond, president of the NAACP: "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for discrimination. His appointments were of people as equally hostile. I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace."
- Ian Stevenson
Ian Pretyman Stevenson, M.D., (born October 31, 1918, in Montreal, Canada, died February 8, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia), was a Canadian-American psychiatrist whose research interests included: children who claim to remember previous lives, near-death experiences, apparitions (death-bed visions), the mind-brain problem, and survival of the human personality after death.
- Michael Mann
Michael Mann is a well-known American climatologist and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate which feature a graph of temperature trends dubbed the "hockey stick graph" for the shape of the trend line. In August 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, …
- Sean Singletary
Sean Singletary (born September 6 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the starting point guard for the University of Virginia Cavaliers basketball team. Singletary attended William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia for his junior and senior years, but attended the Perkiomen School for his freshman and sophomore years of high school. He was also a superb high school football player, excelling at wide receiver, but gave up the sport to focus on basketball.
- Debbie Ryan
Debbie Ryan is the head coach for the womens basketball team at the University of Virginia. Ryan also coached the the American women's basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2000 but is currently in remission.
- Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the analytical tradition he would later famously reject.
- Colgate Darden
Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. (February 11, 1897 - June 9, 1981) was a Democratic Congressman from Virginia (1933-37, 1939-41), Governor of Virginia (1942-46), Chancellor of the College of William and Mary (1946-47) and the third President of the University of Virginia (1947-59). The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Virginia was named for him. Darden was born on a farm near Franklin, …
- Brit Hume
Brit Hume (born Alexander Britton Hume, June 22, 1943) is the Washington, D.C. managing editor of the Fox News Channel. He hosts Special Report with Brit Hume and is a panelist on "Fox News Sunday", which is broadcast on Fox Network television stations.
- Bill Nelson
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior U.S. Senator from Florida. Nelson is a Democrat. Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-61-C (January 12–18, 1986).
- Rick Boucher
Frederick Carlyle "Rick" Boucher (born August 1, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 9th Congressional District (map). Boucher is a native of Abingdon, Virginia, where he currently lives. He earned his BA from Roanoke College and his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. He has practiced law on Wall Street in New York and in Virginia.
- Ryan Zimmerman
Ryan Wallace Zimmerman (Born September 28, 1984 in Washington, North Carolina) was the first first-round draft pick of the Washington Nationals. A 6-foot 3-inch third baseman from the University of Virginia and Floyd E. Kellam High School, Zimmerman has quickly established himself as a quality major-league third baseman -- with potential to blossom into one of the game's true stars -- with his defensive abilities and contact hitting.
- Thomas Jones
Thomas Quinn Jones (born August 19, 1978 in Big Stone Gap, Virginia) is an American football running back for the New York Jets. He is an alumnus of the University of Virginia, where he set numerous rushing records. The Arizona Cardinals drafted Jones as the seventh pick of the 2000 NFL Draft. After three years in Arizona, Jones spent a year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before signing a multi-year contract with the Chicago Bears as a free agent in 2004.
- Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepage headed the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Committee in 2006. He is also the athletic director at the University of Virginia. The committee's biggest duty is to select the 65 teams that participate in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The process takes place over four days in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the NCAA is headquartered. Littlepage played and coached basketball at the University of Pennsylvania before becoming an administrator.
- Virgil Goode
Virgil Hamlin Goode, Jr. (surname rhymes with "mood", not "would"), born October 17, 1946, is an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represents the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia (map), which takes in the Southside region and extends north to Charlottesville. In late 2006 he elicited widespread criticism from some, and widespread praise from others, …
- E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is a U.S. educator and academic literary critic. Now retired, he was until recently the University Professor of Education and Humanities and the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is best known for his writings about cultural literacy. His article "Teach Knowledge, Not "Mental Skills" published in GUIDLINES 3rd edition(book for ESL students).
- Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
- Frank Batten
Frank Batten (1927-) is a communications entrepreneur who began his career when he assumed leadership of his uncle Samuel L. Slover's newspaper, "The Virginian-Pilot" and "The Ledger-Star" in Norfolk, Virginia at age 27 in 1954. Batten grew his uncle's business by acquiring additional newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, as well as founding a new cable station The Weather Channel.
- Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected.
- Robert Bruner
Robert Bruner is the dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He is also Darden's Distinguished Professor of Business Administration. Bruner received his B.A. from Yale University and his MBA and PHD from Harvard Business School.
- James K. Polk
Often referred to as the first "dark horse" President, James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House, and the last strong President until the Civil War. He was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1795. Studious and industrious, Polk was graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina. As a young lawyer he entered politics, served in the Tennessee legislature, and became a friend of Andrew Jackson .
- Ralph Sampson
Ralph Lee Sampson (born July 7 1960 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a retired American college and professional basketball player. He was arguably the most heavily recruited (for both college and the NBA) basketball prospect of his generation. Playing for the University of Virginia, he was one of only two male players in the history of college basketball to receive the Naismith Award as the National Player of the Year three times (Bill Walton of UCLA was the other male, …