List of University of Georgia people

Chief executives and presidents of the University of Georgia

Alumni

Arts, media and entertainment

Business and industry

Economics and finance

• Eugene Robert Black, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Eugene R. Black Sr. former president of the World Bank, chairman of the Brookings Institution, Special Adviser to the President on Southeast Asian Social and Economic Development, board member multiple corporations and foundations, honorary Doctor of Laws from Princeton University, Chair of the Peabody Award Board of Jurors
• Robert D. McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Bernard Ramsey, senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch
• Charles S. Sanford Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bankers Trust

  Educators

Government and the law

Media and journalism

Medicine

Military

Ministry and religion

• Benjamin M. Palmer, South Carolina native, first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans
• George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, president of Georgia Female College and Emory University
• David Platt, pastor of the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham Alabama and author of the NY Times best seller Radical

  Scientific research

Sports

Distinguished faculty and staff

Administration

• Donald R. Eastman III, served as the vice president for university relations at the University of Georgia 1991–1998; vice president for strategic planning and public affairs at the University of Georgia 1998–2001
• Karen Holbrook, former senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UGA; former president of Ohio State University

  Arts and humanities

Education

• Donna Alvermann, educator, currently university-appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of Georgia

  Mathematics

• Andrew Granville, professor of mathematics and David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics at the University of Georgia, 1991-2002
• Carl Pomerance, former professor of mathematics at University of Georgia, distinguished number theorist
• Robert Rumely, professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia and numbers theory researcher

  Scientific research

Sports