- Seung-Hui Cho
Seung-Hui Cho (January 18 1984 – April 16 2007) was a mass murderer who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others in a shooting spree known as the Virginia Tech massacre. The massacre took place on April 16 2007 at the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Cho, a senior English major at Virginia Tech, committed suicide that day after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building where he had wounded and killed most of his potential victims.
- Frank Beamer
Frank Beamer (b. October 18, 1946 in Mount Airy, North Carolina) is the current head coach of the Virginia Tech college football program. Beamer grew up in Hillsville, Virginia where he earned 11 varsity letters in high school as a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and baseball. He then attended Virginia Tech and was a starting cornerback for three years on the football team, playing in the 1966 and 1968 Liberty Bowls.
- Sean Glennon
Sean Glennon (born September 5, 1985) is the starting quarterback for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team. Glennon's appointment to the starting quarterback position came after an extended contest that took place following the dismissal of controversial quarterback Marcus Vick. Glennon had been considered the front-runner for the position following the 2005-2006 season, but faced strong challenges from Ike Whitaker and Cory Holt throughout spring and summer practices.
- Liviu Librescu
Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007;) was a Romanian born and educated Israeli-American scientist and academic whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. His last academic position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech.
- Marcus Vick
Marcus Deon Vick (born March 20, 1984 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American football wide receiver/quarterback who is currently a free agent. He is the younger brother of former Virginia Tech quarterback and current Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, and second cousin of former Oakland Raiders quarterback Aaron Brooks.
- Kevin Jones
Kevin Jones (born August 21, 1982 in Chester, Pennsylvania) is a football player for the Detroit Lions. Jones attended college at Virginia Tech. Also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Drafted 30th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft, Jones had a very successful rookie season with the Lions and became only the third running back in franchise history to rush for 1,000+ yards in his rookie season, joining the ranks of Billy Sims and Hall of Famer Barry Sanders.
- Deron Washington
Deron Washington Deron Washington is a basketball player for Virginia Tech. Washington is known for his higher than average vertical leap. The 6'7" forward executed what has come to be known as "the dunk" at home against Boston College on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007. <br /> <br /> Deron's career has been marked by his hard work ethic and eye-popping acrobatics and dunks.
- Xavier Adibi
Xavier Adibi is a college football linebacker for the Virginia Tech Hokies. He wears the number 11.
- Deangelo Hall
DeAngelo Eugene Hall (born November 19, 1983 in Chesapeake, Virginia) is an American football cornerback currently starting for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. He was acquired in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of Virginia Tech with the eighth overall selection. Hall stands at 5' 10", and weighs 197 pounds, but is known for his quickness and his willingness, ability to play well in big assignments, …
- Lofa Tatupu
Mosiula Mea'alofa Tatupu (born November 15, 1982 in Plainville, Massachusetts) is an American football linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks. He was selected in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of the University of Southern California. As a rookie in 2005, he was named to the Pro Bowl, while leading the NFC Champion Seahawks in tackles, with 104. He also had four sacks and three interceptions, …
- Bryan Randall
Bryan Randall (born August 16, 1983 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American football player for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers. He has also spent time with the Atlanta Falcons, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He is best known for his college football career as a member of the Virginia Tech Hokies. Randall attended Bruton High School in Williamsburg, Virginia, …
- Riley Skinner
Riley Skinner (born October 21, 1986) is the current starting quarterback for the Wake Forest football team, coached by Jim Grobe. He played high school football for The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. Skinner stepped in for the injured Wake Forest QB Ben Mauk after Mauk injured his arm in the first game of the 2006 season against Syracuse.
- Joe Saunders
Joseph Francis "Joe" Saunders (born June 16, 1981 in Falls Church, Virginia) is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Saunders played college baseball at Virginia Tech, where he compiled a 27-7 career record. His 27 wins tied him for third place in most career wins in school history. Saunders was drafted in the first round (12th overall) by the Anaheim Angels in 2002.
- Howard Schnellenberger
Howard Schnellenberger (born March 16, 1934) is an American football coach at both the professional and college level. He is currently married to Mrs. Beverlee Schnellenberger and is head coach of Florida Atlantic University. He previously held head coaching positions with the University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, University of Miami, and the Baltimore Colts. He has also worked extensively as an assistant coach at the college and pro levels, …
- Aaron Rouse
Aaron Rouse, (born on January 8, 1984), is a strong safety for the Green Bay Packers. He attended Virginia Tech for college.
- David Clowney
David Clowney (born July 8, 1985) is a wide receiver on the Green Bay Packers. He attended Virginia Tech for college.
- G. V. Loganathan
Gobichettypalayam Vasudevan Loganathan, known as Prof. G. V. Loganathan was an Indian-born American professor, whose most recent position was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, United States. He was a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre.
- Charles W. Steger
Dr. Charles W. Steger President Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dear President Steger:
- Darryl Tapp
Darryl Tapp (born September 13, 1984) is a current American Football defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Tapp played college football at Virginia Tech where he was a two time All-ACC first-team selection.
- Lucinda Roy
Lucinda Roy (born December 19, 1955) is a British novelist and poet. She was born in Battersea, South London, England, to Namba Roy, a Jamaican writer and artist, and Yvonne Roy, an English actor and teacher. She grew up in England and received her B.A. in English from Kings College London before moving to the U.S., where she currently resides. She completed her M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. In 1988, she published her first collection of poetry, …
- Jeff King
Jeffery W King (born February 19, 1983 in Pulaski, VA) is an American Football tight end currently playing for the Carolina Panthers. He is listed as being 6'3" and 253 pounds. While in college he played for Virginia Tech as a football player, basketball player, and did shot put for the track team.
- Ernest Wilford
Ernest Lee Wilford (born January 14, 1979 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL. Wilford was drafted by the Jaguars with the 24th pick of the 4th round in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech. The moment in his career which no Virginia Tech fan is likely to forget came in the final game of the 2001 regular season against UMiami.
- Lee Suggs
Lee Ernest Suggs, Jr. (born August 11, 1980 in Roanoke, Virginia) is an American football player who currently is a free agent running back in the NFL. Prior to entering the NFL, Suggs played for William Fleming High School in Roanoke and later for Virginia Tech. During his 1998 senior year in high school, he rushed for 2,918 yards and 30 touchdowns, …
- James Anderson
James Anderson (born September 26, 1983 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina) is a current American football linebacker for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL. He was drafted in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Anderson played college football at Virginia Tech.
- William Morva
William Charles Morva (born c. 1982) is allegedly the sole gunman who killed two people: sheriff's deputy Cpl. Eric Sutphin and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, near the university campus of Virginia Tech. He had escaped from custody on August 20, 2006, before being recaptured a day later. Morva had been in custody awaiting trial for an August 2005 attempted armed robbery of a Deli Mart in Blacksburg.
- Cedric Humes
Cedric Akeem Humes (born August 7, 1983 in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American football running back who was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the last round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Steelers placed rookie running back Cedric Humes on the practice squad/injured reserve list, ending his season. He attended Virginia Tech and was instrumental in their 2005 ACC Coastal Division Title.
- Elvis Dumervil
Elvis Dumervil (born January 19, 1984, Miami, Florida) is a National Football League defensive end for the Denver Broncos.
- Bill Bolling
William T. "Bill" Bolling (born June 15, 1957 in Sistersville, West Virginia) is the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Prior to his election as Lieutenant Governor, Bolling served as a member of the Virginia Senate. He served as a member of the Senate from 1996-2005. Before that, Bolling served as a member and Chairman of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors. Bolling was born and raised in the coal fields of Southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia.
- Rhett Bomar
Rhett Bomar (born July 2, 1985 in Groesbeck, Texas) is an American football quarterback. He played for the University of Oklahoma Sooners and was permanently dismissed from the team for violating NCAA regulations by accepting money from Big Red Sports and Imports for time not worked in 2006. Bomar is currently enrolled at Sam Houston State University in hopes of continuing his college football career.
- Steve Aponavicius
Steve Aponavicius is a walk-on kicker for Boston College's football program. A left-footed soccer convert, Aponavicius made his first start of his career against Virginia Tech on October 12, 2006 and successfully kicked two field goals. Aponavicius became the team's kicker after the the suspension of regular kicker Ryan Ohliger after a bar fight. Aponavicius never played competitive football before coming to Boston College.
- Donaldson Brown
He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1902. He completed a postgraduate course at Cornell University in 1903 by passing the senior electrical engineering course examination. On completion of his college education, he sold electrical machinery for a General Electric interest. He was a salesman of commercial explosives for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company for four years, starting in 1909.
- Dell Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry (born June 25, 1964 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a retired American professional basketball player at the shooting guard position who received his education from Fort Defiance High School in Virginia and Virginia Tech. He then played in the National Basketball Association from 1986 until 2002. On June 18, 2007 he was named assistant coach of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team.
- Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan Lewis (born July 12, 1984) is a defensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. He was drafted in the 6th round (177th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft. Lewis played college football at Virginia Tech.
- Shayne Graham
Michael Shayne Graham (born December 9, 1977 in Radford, Virginia) is an American football placekicker who currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. He attended Virginia Tech and signed as a free agent with the New Orleans Saints in 2000, but was waived before the start of the regular season. He has previously played for the Carolina Panthers and Buffalo Bills. Graham attended Pulaski County High School and was an avid football (soccer) player as a kid.
- Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born February 2, 1960) is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. D'Aguiar was born in London of Guyanese parents. He spent his childhood, from the age of two to twelve, in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His "Bill of Rights", about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a finalist for the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University (1989-90), Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, …
- Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor (born August 31, 1978 in Bellaire, Ohio) is an American football player and linebacker who currently plays for the Green Bay Packers. Taylor was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 2002 NFL Draft. He attended Virginia Tech for college. In college, he switched between defensive end and linebacker.
- Antonio Freeman
Antonio Freeman (born May 27, 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former American NFL wide receiver, most notably for the Green Bay Packers. One of the greatest wide receivers in the history of the Green Bay Packers, he attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, dominating his high school conference. Freeman attended college at Virginia Tech.
- Paul Pasqualoni
Paul Pasqualoni (born August 16, 1949) was the head coach of the Syracuse University (SU) football team from 1991 to 2004. Pasqualoni was an assistant at SU until 1991, when he was promoted to head coach after the position was vacated by Dick MacPherson, who left Syracuse for the NFL to coach the New England Patriots. The Orange (then known as the Orangemen) enjoyed a number of fairly successful years with Pasqualoni at the helm.
- Will Montgomery
Will Montgomery (born February 13, 1983 in Brunswick, Maine) is an American football center who was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round (234th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft. Montgomery originally joined Virginia Tech as a walk-on defensive tackle where he earned a scholarship. During his university tenure, he was a three-year starter playing both guard and Center.
- Srinidhi Varadarajan
Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of Terascale computing facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is also the architect of System X, one of the world's fastest and least expensive supercomputers.