- Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930. - Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic. He will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990-1997. His resignation is effective August 1, 2007. He has held more university presidencies than any other American. Prior to his appointment as Vanderbilt's chancellor on February 7, 2000, Gee was president of Brown University from 1997 to 2000, … - Jess Neely
Jess C. Neely (January 4, 1898 - April 9, 1983) was a Hall of Fame college football coach at Clemson and Rice. He played college football at Vanderbilt 1920-22. Three players from those teams, coached by Daniel Earle McGugin, were inducted as coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame: Neely, Red Sanders, and William Wallace Wade. His football coaching career began at Rhodes College, where he complied an 18-15-2 record from 1924-1927. - Lamar Alexander
"One of the key ways we can reduce high gas prices is by providing more support for the basic science and research that will help us innovate our way to clean energy independence," said Alexander, who on May 9th in Oak Ridge proposed a new Manhattan Project for clean energy independence. "Research funding through the America COMPETES Act will help us reach the breakthroughs necessary to get us off foreign oil and onto the clean energy technologies that we can produce right here in America. - Jefferson Davis
Jefferson "Jeff" Davis (6 May 1862 - 3 January 1913) was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and also served as governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas. - David Keene
David A. Keene (b. May 20, 1945) is the current chairman of the American Conservative Union, a position which he has held since 1984. Additionally, he is the managing associate at the Carmen Group Lobbying, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C.. - Bill Purcell
William Paxon Purcell III (born October 25, 1953) is the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Purcell was born in 1953 in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where he served as Vice President of the Student Senate and was a columnist for the school newspaper. - Bill Ivey
Bill Ivey was the seventh chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton and served from 1998 to 2001. He is currently the Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, an arts policy research center with offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, DC. - David Price
David Taylor Price (b. August 26, 1985 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee) is an amateur baseball pitcher who was drafted #1 overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Price has been playing baseball since early childhood, and pitched for his Blackman High School team. Later, while playing for Vanderbilt University, Price was named co-National Player of the Year and won college baseball's top honor, the Golden Spikes Award. - Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27 1794 - January 4, 1877), also known by the sobriquets "The Commodore" or "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Phebe Hand, a family of modest means in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York City. - Buster Olney
Robert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III (born 17 February 1964) is a columnist for "ESPN: The Magazine", ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for "The New York Times". He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's "Baseball Tonight". Olney grew up on a dairy farm in Woodstock and Randolph Center, Vermont, which came in handy when he helped Mike Greenberg milked a cow on "Mike and Mike in the Morning" on June 21, 2007, … - Pedro Alvarez
Pedro Alvarez (born February 6, 1987 in New York City) is a baseball player for the Vanderbilt University Commodores. Currently a sophomore, Pedro is one of the premier college baseball players in America.<br /><br />Alvarez attended the Horace Mann School in New York City where he holds numerous baseball records, most notably home runs, batting average, on base percentage, slugging percentage, and RBI's. Alvarez was named Athlete of the Year his senior season. - Allen Tate
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. Allen Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky the son of John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. - David Wood
David Wood (born 1946, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) is professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. - Bobby Johnson
Bobby Johnson (b. Columbia, South Carolina) is the head football coach at Vanderbilt University. He became the Commodores' coach in December 2001 after leading Furman University to the Division I-AA national championship game. Johnson's first head coaching job was at Furman, which hired him in 1994. Previously, he had been defensive coordinator at Clemson University. - Donald Davidson
Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893, Campbellsville in Giles County, Tennessee - April 25, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians. Davidson's parents were teachers. His secondary education was a classical one, grounded in Latin, Greek, English, and mathematics. - Tom Dillehay
Tom Dillehay is an American anthropologist who is the anthropology department chair at Vanderbilt University. He has been involved in the excavations at Monte Verde in Chile where human remains of an age estimated on about 12,500 years have been found, challenging then the Clovis theory of the first human arrival in the Americas. - David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley was a popular American television newscaster for NBC and later ABC. From 1956 through 1970 he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" with Chet Huntley. In 1970, the broadcast was renamed "NBC Nightly News," with Brinkley, John Chancellor, and Frank McGee coanchoring. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was a top commentator on election coverage for ABC News, … - Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). He is a distinguished researcher and academic, associated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. He received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and zoology. After working as a bacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, … - Tim Corbin
Tim Corbin is the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt University. In his five years at Vanderbilt, Corbin has taken the Commodores from the perennial Southeastern Conference doormat to the number one ranked team in the country. In his first four years, Corbin amassed a 144-95 record. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Corbin served as an assistant coach at Clemson University for nine years and as head coach at Presbyterian College for six years. - Arthur Demarest
Arthur Demarest is an anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization. He studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology in Tulane University, from which he graduated. In 1981 Demarest was granted his Ph. D in Harvard University and he was admitted to the prestigious Society of Fellows -club. From 1984 on he has taught at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, USA, and is the head of the Department of Mesoamerican archaeology there. - F. Peter Guengerich
Dr. F. Peter Guengerich is a professor of biochemistry and the director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Guengerich is the author or co-author of over 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is one of the most highly-cited researchers in toxicology in the world, known for his work on cytochromes P450, DNA damage and carcinogenesis, and drug metabolism. In 2005 he received the William C. Rose award for his research. - Dierks Bentley
Dierks Bentley (born November 20, 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a country music singer. - Molly Sims
Molly Sims (born May 25, 1973 in Murray, Kentucky) is an American model and actress. - David Lubinski
David J. Lubinski is an American psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1981 and 1987 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1987-1990 with Lloyd G. Humphreys. He taught at Iowa State University from 1990-1998 and took a position at Vanderbilt University in 1998, … - Peter Taylor
Peter Hillsman Taylor (January 8, 1917 - November 2, 1994) was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born to a wealthy Nashville family in Trenton, Tennessee, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St. Louis until his father, an attorney, moved his practice to Memphis in 1936. Taylor enrolled at Rhodes College in 1936, studying under the critic Allen Tate. - Ellen Goldring
Ellen Goldring Ph.D. is a professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University. - Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer (born September 1, 1950 in Winchester, Tennessee), is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee, where he has been since 1992. Fulmer is the 20th head football coach in the history of the school. - Will Perdue
William Edward Perdue (born August 29 1965 in Melbourne, Florida) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. Following a stellar college career at Vanderbilt University, in which he was named Southeastern Conference player of the year and SEC male athlete of the year in 1988, he was selected by the Chicago Bulls, 11th overall in the 1988 NBA Draft. He averaged 4.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per game over a thirteen year career. - Kevin Stallings
Kevin Stallings is currently in his eighth season as the head men’s basketball coach at Vanderbilt University. Previously, he served as head coach at Illinois State University and was an assistant coach at Purdue University and Kansas University. - Derrick Byars
Derrick JaVaughn Byars (born April 25, 1984 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an NBA basketball player who plays for the Philadelphia 76ers team. He played for Vanderbilt University in college and was drafted 42nd overall in the 2007 NBA Draft. - Alain Connes
Alain Connes was born in Draguignan, a town near Cannes in the Provence- Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region of southeast France. He entered the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1966, graduating in 1970. After graduating, Connes became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His thesis A classification of factors of type III was on operator algebras, in particular on von Neumann algebras, and the work was supervised by Jacque Dixmier. - Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman (born 5 June 1952) is a United States poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of "The Reaper" throughout the 1980s. Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of nine books of poetry, two books of essays, and a book of essays co-authored with Robert McDowell. - Virginia Abernethy
Virginia Deane Abernethy is an American professor (emerita) of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.B.A from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is an anthropology fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - James Dickey
James Dickey was a popular United States poet and novelist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to a lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and his wife, Maibelle Swift Dickey. He attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead (Atlanta) neighborhood. In 1942 he enrolled at Clemson University and played on the football team as a tailback. After one semester, he left school to enlist in the Army Air Corps. - Robert Barsky
Professor Robert Barsky is a professor in the French and Italian Dept. and the English Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an expert on Noam Chomsky, literary theory, Convention refugees, immigration and refugee law, and Montreal. His biography of Chomsky entitled "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent" was published in 1997 by MIT Press. Barsky was born and raised in Montréal, attended university in Boston, … - Melanie Balcomb
Melanie Balcomb is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Vanderbilt University. Balcomb attended Hightstown High School, in Hightstown, New Jersey, where she starred as a point guard for the girls' varsity basketball team from 1976 to 1980. She attended Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), where she set school records for career assists and steals, and she scored over 1,000 points in her collegiate basketball career. - Mark Noll
Mark Noll comes to the history department at Notre Dame, after 27 years at Wheaton College as a member of the history and theology departments, where he taught a range of courses from American intellectual history and the general history of Christianity to modern British history and the history of history-writing. In coming to Notre Dame, he looks forward to concentrating on fewer subjects. - Jeremy Sowers
Jeremy Bryan Sowers (b. May 17, 1983 in St. Clairsville, Ohio) is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Buffalo Bisons in the International League and former major league player for the Cleveland Indians. He grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended Ballard High School. His twin brother, Joshua Sowers, plays in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Sowers pitching repertoire features a fastball with which he varies the speed between about 85 and 92 mph, a curveball, … - Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880-July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter.
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