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List of University of Tennessee people

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The following is a list of people associated with the University of Tennessee system in all its campuses. The list does not include personnel associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Politics and law

Education

Actors, directors, and entertainers

Artists and musicians

Authors

Business and economy

Military

Athletics and sportscasters

Journalists and newscasters

Rhodes Scholars

  • Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, Balliol College, B.A. 1981 MA 1986; graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983 with a JD degree; served in the cabinet of Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter; sat on several corporate boards; served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy under President Obama and Director of White House Office of Healthcare Reform[144]
  • William Everett Derryberry, St. John's College, BA 1932 MA 1940; had a 34-year academic career as president of Tennessee Technological University, where he oversaw the transformation of the school from a campus of a few acres and a few buildings with 700 students and 31 faculty members to a university comprising six colleges and schools on 235 acres of property with a student body of close to 7,000 and a faculty of more than 350[144]
  • Bernadotte E. Schmitt, Merton College, BA 1908, M.A 1913; professor at Western Reserve University (1910–1925) and the University of Chicago (1925–1946); when he retired from Chicago, he held the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Modern History; served briefly in World War I as a 2nd Lieutenant of Field Artillery; during World War II, he acted as a special consultant on history in the Department of State's Division of Research and Publications and its Division of Historical Policy Research[144]

Nobel laureates

  • James Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Science; received an M.S. degree from UT in 1941[145]
  • Peter C. Doherty, faculty member in the UT Health Science Center in Memphis

Pulitzer prize winners

  • John Netherland Heiskell, 1893 graduate of the University of Tennessee; publisher and editor of the Arkansas Gazette', 1902–1972; under his leadership, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service[146]
  • Owen Davis, 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923[147]
  • John M. Hightower, attended the University of Tennessee 1927–1929; won a Pulitzer while at the Associated Press for International Reporting in 1952[148]
  • Ron Kirksey, 1970 graduate of the University of Tennessee, won the Pulitzer prize for public service journalism in 1994 as part of a team at the Akron Beacon Journal[149]
  • Cormac McCarthy, novelist who attended University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1951–1952 and 1957–1960; won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road[150]
  • Bernadotte E. Schmitt, earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Tennessee in 1902, won a Pulitzer in History in 1931 for his book The Coming of the War, 1914 (1930)[151]
  • John Noble Wilford, 1955 graduate of the University of Tennessee; won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting;[152] science correspondent for The New York Times, and founder of the paper's weekly science section[153]
  • Edward Osborne Wilson, attended University of Tennessee 1950–1951, won two Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction for his books On Human Nature (1979)[154] and The Ants (1991)[155]

Science and technology

Astronauts

Faculty

References

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