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BUSINESS
Bernard Madoff, former American businessman, convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme (attended, but did not graduate)
Winton M. Blount, Chairman of Blount International and former Postmaster General
David G. Bronner, Director Alabama Pension Systems
Samuel DiPiazza, former Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers
James M. Fail, chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank
Joe McInnes, Dir - Ala Dept of Transportation; Exec Vice President-Blount International
Janet Gurwitch, former Executive Vice President of Merchandising at Neiman Marcus, co-founder of Gurwitch Products, the manufacturer of Laura Mercier Cosmetics
Thom S. Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources
Marvin Mann, former president and CEO of Lexmark International
Neal Selman, former Executive Vp and Executive Creative Director of Draftfcb
Dana R. Garmany, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Troon Golf

ENTERTAINMENT
Norbert Leo Butz, Broadway actor
Debra Marshall, former WWE and WCW diva
Cristin Duren, Miss Florida USA 2006
Jim Nabors, actor
Ray Reach, jazz pianist, singer, arranger and composer, director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Steve Sample, Sr., jazz arranger, composer and educator
Sela Ward, actress
Tom Cherones, director of Seinfeld
Madeline Mitchell
Ashley Crow, actress
Madeline Mitchell, Miss Alabama USA 2011 and Miss USA 2011 (2nd runner-up)
Michael Emerson, actor
Sonequa Martin-Green, actress

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, and SOCIAL ACTIVISM
William Brockman Bankhead, US House of Representatives (1917-1933), (1933-1940), Speaker of the House (1936-1940)[5]
Maryon P. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1978), wife of James B. Allen[6]
James B. Allen, United States Senator from Alabama (1969-1978)[7]
John W. Abercrombie, United States Congressman from Alabama (1913-1917) and President of the University of Alabama (1902-1911)[8]
Cynthia Bathurst, 1974, animal rights activist and founder/director of Safe Humane Chicago[citation needed]
Bill Baxley, Lt Governor of Alabama 1983–1987
Robert J. Bentley, current Governor of Alabama, elected 2010
Don Black, founder of Stormfront[citation needed]
Hugo Black, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–1971)
John A. Caddell, lawyer, later president pro tempore of the Board of Trustees[citation needed]
H. L. Sonny Callahan, U.S. House of Representatives Alabama's 1st district, (1985-2003)
N. Lee Cooper, 1997-1998 President of American Bar Association
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., federal judge whose opinions were critical to the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., (1857–1929), member of House of Representatives
Morris Dees, civil rights attorney, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Carl Elliott, Alabama's 7th congressional district representative, 1949 to 1965
Jim Folsom, governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959
Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity International
Charles Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama (1979–1983, 1983–1987)
Lino Gutierrez, Diplomat, United States Ambassador to Argentina (2003-2006), United States Ambassador to Nicaragua (1996-1999)
Howell Heflin, 1971-77 Ch J Ala Sup Ct, 1978-97 United States Senator from Alabama - grad law school 1948
Vivian Malone Jones, first African-American graduate
Stephanie Kopelousos, Transportation Secretary, Florida Department of Transportation (2007-2011).
Autherine Lucy, (1956), first African-American student to be admitted to the University after winning in Lucy v. Adams; suspended after 3 days due to racial hostilities; her expulsion was overturned in 1980, and in 1992, she earned her Masters degree in Elementary Education
Champ Lyons, Jr, Assoc Justice, Ala Sup Ct 1998-present; grad Law School 1965. lyons
John Malcolm Patterson, Governor of Alabama 1959-63, Grad Law Sch 1948
Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama (2003–2011)
Percy Saint, attended University of Alabama (1888-1890); state district judge (1920-1924) in Franklin, Louisiana, and Attorney General of Louisiana (1924-1932)[citation needed]
Jeff Sessions, United States Senator from Alabama, 1997-present, grad Law Sch 1973
Richard Shelby, United States Senator from Alabama, 1987-present, grad both undergrad & law school (1963)
Don Siegelman, Governor of Alabama (1999–2003)
Donald W. Stewart, United States Senator from Alabama, 1979-1981
Ira B. Thompson, Alabama State Representative
George Corley Wallace, Governor of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987)
Robert Smith Vance, Federal Appellate Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Chaired and de-segregated State Democratic Party, Assassinated December 16, 1989
Michael G. Vickers, United States Department of Defense, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, 2007-Present.

JOURNALISM AND LITERATURE

Mel Allen, sportscaster for the New York Yankees, best known as the "legendary voice of the Yankees' organization" and first host of This Week in Baseball
Rece Davis, ESPN sports analyst
Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing
Winston Groom, author, "Forrest Gump"; graduate 1965
Joe Scarborough,currently the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC
Kathryn Stockett, author, The Help

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, and ENGINEERING

Jimmy Wales - co-founder of Wikipedia
Mohammad Ataul Karim, World Renowned Physicist
Lafayette Guild, Medical Director for Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War and a pioneer in the research of yellow fever.
Timothy Leary, psychologist, writer and drug activist
Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., 11th Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor of Van de Graaff generator
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia
E.O. Wilson, entomologist known for work on evolution and sociobiology; Pulitzer Prize winner
Louis Rosen, nuclear physicist, the "father" of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
Justin Hill, founder of the Alabama Lunar Rover Project
Eugene Allen Smith (A.B. 1862), American geologist; president of the GSA 1913

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