List of University of Tennessee people

Politics and law

Education

Actors, directors, and entertainers

Artists and musicians

Authors

Business and economy

Military

Athletics and sportscasters

Journalists and newscasters

• Huell Howser, California television personality
• Ann Taylor, NPR newscaster
• Chris Vining, Emmy Award-winning video editor
• Charles Winters, journalist
• Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN writer and commentator

  Rhodes Scholars

Gates Cambridge Scholars

• Sahba Seddighi, 2017

  Schwarzman Scholars

• Miranda Gottlieb, 2017
• Colleen Ryan, 2019

  Nobel laureates

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

  Pulitzer Prize winners

Science and technology

Astronauts

Faculty

• Vernon Lattin, president of Brooklyn College
• Jill Mikucki, microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
• Kate Vitasek, author and educator, adjunct faculty in the Haslam College of Business Global Supply Chain Institute and the Graduate and Executive Education