List of Florida State University people

This list of Florida State University people includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida State University (FSU). Florida State alumni are generally known as Seminoles. Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university in Tallahassee, Florida. Since its founding in 1851, Florida State has graduated 173 classes of students and today has approximately 400,000 alumni.^[1]

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Alumni	Notability	Reference
James Ammons	President of Florida A&M University	^[2]
J. David Armstrong	President of Broward College	^[3]
Eric J. Barron	President of Florida State University and Pennsylvania State University	^[4]
Judith A. Bense	President of the University of West Florida	^[5]
John Grosskopf	President of North Florida Community College	^[6]
Franklin L. Hagenbeck	Superintendent of the United States Military Academy	^[7]
Mark R. Hamilton	President of the University of Alaska System	^[8]
Carl Hite	President of Cleveland State Community College	^[9]
Marvalene Hughes	President of Dillard University	^[10]
Ronald R. Ingle	President of Coastal Carolina University	^[11]
John P. Johnson	President of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University	^[12]
A. James Kerley	President of Gulf Coast State College	^[13]
Anne B. Kerr	President of Florida Southern College	^[14]
Carl M. Kuttler, Jr.	President of St. Petersburg College	^[15]
Charlie LaPradd	President of St. Johns River Community College	^[16]
William D. Law	President of St. Petersburg College	^[17]
Terrence Leas	President of Big Bend Community College	^[18]
Aubrey K. Lucas	President of the University of Southern Mississippi	^[19]
E. Ann McGee	President of Seminole State College of Florida	^[20]
Robert McLendon	President of St. Johns River Community College	^[21]
Charles R. Middleton	President of Roosevelt University	^[22]
Albert A. Murphree	President of Florida State College for Women and the University of Florida	^[23]
William L. Proctor	Chancellor of Flagler College and athletic director for Florida State University	^[24]
James C. Renick	Chancellor of University of Michigan–Dearborn and vice president for the American Council on Education	^[25]
Clyda Stokes Rent	President of Mississippi University for Women	^[26]
Martha Dunagin Saunders	President of the University of West Florida	^[27]
Betty L. Siegel	President of Kennesaw State University and the University System of Georgia	^[28]
Paul E. Stein	Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy	^[29]
Glenn Terrell	President of Washington State University	^[30]
John E. Thrasher	President of Florida State University	^[31]
Jim Towey	President of Ave Maria University, president of Saint Vincent College, and director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives	^[32]
John Kenneth Waddell	President of Allen University and president of Denmark Community College	^[33]
E. Jean Walker	President of Virginia Highlands Community College	^[34]
T. K. Wetherell	President of Florida State University	^[35]
Mark S. Wrighton	Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis	^[36]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Lawrence G. Abele	Provost of Florida State University	^[37]
Debra D. Austin	Chancellor of the State University System of Florida and provost of FAMU	^[38]
Gordon C. Bond	Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University	^[39]
Todd Britsch	Vice president at Brigham Young University and emeritus professor of humanities	^[40]
Jered Carr	Director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs	^[41]
Thomas A. Desjardin	Commissioner of Education for the State of Maine
Steve Edwards	Deputy provost of Florida State University	^[42]
Marc H. Ellis	Director of Jewish Studies at Baylor University	^[43]
Leonard Erickson	Deputy director of the Indiana University Cancer Center	^[44]
Wayne Flynt	Writer, historian, and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University.	^[45]
Dwight Gustafson	Dean of fine arts at Bob Jones University	^[46]
Tameka Bradley Hobbs	Associate provost of Florida Memorial University and founding director of the FMU Social Justice Institute think tank and research center	^[47]
Patrick C. Kennell	Director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University	^[48]
Hilal Khashan	Administrator at the American University of Beirut	^[49]
Aquila Berlas Kiani	President of the Pakistan Federation of University Women	^{[citation needed]}
Stephen MacNamara	Vice president at Florida State University	^[50]
Robert Millet	Emeritus dean of religious education at Brigham Young University	^[51]
William L. Proctor	Athletic director for Florida State University	^[52]
James C. Renick	Vice president for the American Council on Education	^[53]
Xavier Serra	Founder and director of the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University	^[54]
Betty Siegel	President of the University System of Georgia	^[55]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Masood Ashraf Raja	Associate professor of postcolonial literature and theory at the University of North Texas. He is also the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, an open access journal that he founded in 2009.	^[56]^[57]^[58]^[59]^[60]
Virginia Spencer Carr	Biographer, professor at Columbia State University and Georgia State University.
Ricardo Dominguez	Artist, activist, and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego. He has been the subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he founded.
Skip Horack	Writer and professor. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University.
Fiona Kelleghan	Science fiction scholar and critic. Associate professor at the University of Miami.
Jesse Lee Kercheval	Academic, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater.
Margaret Keyes	American academic and heritage preserver. She was a professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation, best known for her work to preserve the Iowa Old Capitol Building.	^[61]
Leonard Skinner	American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
David Ward-Steinman	Composer and music professor. Became Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at San Diego State University and was a professor at Indiana University.	^[62]^[63]
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch	Lawyer, elected member of the American Law Institute, currently the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia, and from 2017 to 2018, the Charles Hughes Kirbo Chair of Law at the same university.
Thomas E. Baker	Constitutional law scholar and Professor of Law. He is a founding member of the Florida International University of the College of Law. A nationally recognized constitutionalist, Professor Baker has authored numerous books and editions, as well as commentary on constitutional law and the federal courts.

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Kathleen Amm	Researcher and Director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory	^[64]
Brent A. Barlow	Former professor at Brigham Young University and author	^[65]
Eric J. Barron	Former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and former dean of the College of Geosciences at the University of Texas-Austin	^[66]
Justin Brown	Professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington	^{[citation needed]}
Antonio Busalacchi Jr.	Current chairman of World Climate Research Programme and a committee for the National Academy of Sciences, professor at the University of Maryland	^[67]^[68]
Suzy Covey	Pioneer in XML encoding, and librarian emerita at the George A. Smathers Libraries	^{[citation needed]}
Joseph W. Cullen	Former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C.	^[69]
Sylvia Earle	Former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	^[70]
Steve Edwards	Physicist	^[71]
Mostafa El-Sayed	Current Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Sciences	^[72]
Marc H. Ellis	Theologian and philosopher	^[73]
Leonard Erickson	Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center, and professor at IUPUI	^{[citation needed]}
Jaime Escalante	Former Bolivian educator	^{[citation needed]}
A. Wilson Greene	Civil War historian and author; former executive director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier	^[74]
Carolyn S. Griner	Former director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	^[75]
Steven Hebert	Nephrologist	^[76]
Robert A. Holton	Scientist who created Taxol, current professor at Florida State University	^[77]
Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh	Food scientist and fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists	^[78]
Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz	Experimental physicist, early pioneer in developing Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program	^[79]
Dan Jones	Professor of English studies at University of Central Florida	^[80]
Jesse Lee Kercheval	Academic and writer, and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison	^[81]
Margaret Keyes	Scholar in heritage conservation	^[82]
Hilal Khashan	Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut	^[83]
Jim Kuypers	Communications expert, professor at Virginia Tech	^[84]
William Leap	Anthropologist and professor at American University	^[85]
Deborah Mash	Professor of neurology, and director of the Brain Endowment Bank at the University of Miami	^[86]
Warren P. Mason	Electrical engineer and physicist, founder of the field of distributed-element circuits	^[87]
Charles T. Meide	Underwater and maritime archaeologist	^{[citation needed]}
Jason Moore	Translational bioinformatics scientist and human geneticist	^[88]
Anthony Nicholls	English physicist	^[89]
Harold O'Neil	Experimental psychologist, and currently a professor at the University of Southern California	^[90]
Orrin H. Pilkey	Geologist, and professor emeritus at Duke University	^[91]
Alan R. Price	Former associate director for investigative oversight for the National Institute of Health	^[92]
Thomas S. Ray	Ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life	^{[citation needed]}
Dušan Repovš	Slovenian mathematician, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia for Science	^[93]
Matthew Barnett Robinson	Criminologist	^[94]
Landon T. Ross	Environmental biologist	^[95]
Anne Rudloe	Marine biologist, writer, environmentalist, cofounder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award Winner	^[96]^[97]
James A. Shymansky	Science educator	^[98]
Dewey Smith	Professional aquanaut and underwater diver	^[99]
Nyayapathi Swamy	Mathematical physicist	^[100]
Maria Zemankova	Computer scientist, created the theory of Fuzzy Relational Database System, recipient of the SIGMOD Contributions Award	^[101]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Winston Scott	Former NASA astronaut	^[102]
Norman Thagard	Former NASA astronaut and currently a tenured professor of engineering at Florida State University	^[103]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Stephanie Abrams	Meteorologist, The Weather Channel	^[104]
Neil Frank	Former director of the National Hurricane Center	^[105]
Stanley Goldenberg	Current meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	^[106]
Thomas Grazulis	Meteorologist, worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission	^[107]
Janice Huff	Meteorologist, currently works for WNBC, and the Today Show	^[108]
Richard Knabb	Former director of the National Hurricane Center; currently at The Weather Channel	^[109]
Jennifer Lopez	Meteorologist, currently works for The Weather Channel	^{[citation needed]}
Max Mayfield	Former director of the National Hurricane Center	^[110]
Bryan Norcross	Meteorologist, currently a hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel	^{[citation needed]}
Bill Proenza	Former director of the National Hurricane Center and former director of the National Weather Service's Southern Region	^[111]
Dallas Raines	Meteorologist, currently works for KABC-TV	^[112]
George Winterling	Former meteorologist with WJXT	^[113]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Frederick William Buchholz	1905 Rhodes Scholar
Caroline Alexander	1976 Rhodes Scholar
Garrett Johnson	2006 Rhodes Scholar
Myron Rolle	2009 Rhodes Scholar	^[114]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Martin Eichinger	American sculptor. Deemed one of the few 'Living Masters' by the Art Renewal Center, Eichinger is known for his bronze narrative sculptures.	^[115]
Alyson Fox	Artist and illustrator
Bud Grace	Cartoonist, who has worked on the comic strip Ernie, whose title was later changed to Piranha Club in the United States. He also drew the Babs and Aldo comic strip for King under the pseudonym Buddy Valentine.
Masumi Hayaski	Photographer and Fulbright fellow
James F. Hutchinson	Painter, member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame
Salvador Miranda	Church historian and librarian
Ted Studebaker	Christian missionary to Vietnam
Lynne Taetzsch	Abstract painter and writer

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Sandon Berg	Film producer, actor, and screenwriter; co-founder of the United Gay Network
Sara Blakely	President and founder of Spanx; judge on ABC's former reality television series American Inventor
Bob Bowman	Current CEO of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club; mentor to Michael Phelps
Ed Burr	Founder, president and chief executive officer of GreenPointe Holdings, LLC, a diversified holding company	^[116]
Jose Ceballos	Current director for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Todd Combs	Hedge fund manager who has been tapped as a potential successor of Warren Buffett as the chief investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway
R. Clarke Cooper	Executive director of Log Cabin Republicans
Todd Crannell	Current president of Q2 Sports and Entertainment
Meg Crofton	Current president, the Walt Disney World Resort
John Culver	Current Executive Vice President of Starbucks
James Dahl	Former Senior Vice President of Drexel Burnham Lambert
Jeff Galloway	Current CEO of Galloway Productions
Michael Genevie	Current executive director of the Abbeville Opera House
James W. Grant	Former Executive Vice President of Worldwide Chemical; former U.S. Representative
Chuck Hardwick	Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Inc.
Gordon S. Holder	Currently a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, and retired vice admiral in the United States Navy
Glenda Hope	Head of the San Francisco Network Ministries, and minister with the Presbyterian Church
Gary Huff	Former CFO for the Los Angeles Raiders, and also worked with the IBM Corporation
Patricia Ireland	Former president of the National Organization for Women, and writer
Kenneth A. Jessell	Current president of Florida International University and former senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer of Florida International University
Manuel H. Johnson	Current co-chairman of Johnson Smick International; former vice chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve Bank
Donald E. Kiernan	Former CFO of Southwestern Bell Corporation
Richard Legendre	Current vice president of CF Montreal
Daryl Logullo	Marketing expert
Marjorie Matthews	Former bishop for the United Methodist Church
Martin Mayhew	American football player and executive
Marc Middleton	Current CEO and founder of Growing Bolder
Virginia Montes	Former secretary of the National Organization for Women, and civil rights activist
Jane Mouton	Management theorist
Gregory Parkes	Current bishop for the Catholic Church
Tom Petway	Current minority partner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and chairman of the board for Zurich Insurance Services
Bobby Pittman	Current vice president with African Development Bank
Richard W. Rahn	Current chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth
Jeff Rosenthal	Current president and CEO of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc.
Peter F. Romero	Current CEO of Experior Advisory, and former United States Ambassador
Robert Sanborn	Current president and CEO of Children at Risk
Gary A. Sanders	Former CEO of Wackenhut
Harry Sargeant III	Owner of International Oil Trading Company; billionaire
Bob Sasser	Current CEO of Dollar Tree Inc.
Brian Sussman	Current Managing Partner of 34 Pictures Entertainment

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