This list of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Georgia Tech. Notable administration, faculty, and staff are found on the list of Georgia Institute of Technology faculty. Georgia Tech alumni are generally known as Yellow Jackets. According to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association,^[1]

[the status of "alumni"] is open to all graduates of Georgia Tech, all former students of Georgia Tech who regularly matriculated and left Georgia Tech in good standing, active and retired members of the faculty and administration staff, and those who have rendered some special and conspicuous service to Georgia Tech or to [the alumni association].

The first class of 128 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888, and the first two graduates, Henry L. Smith and George G. Crawford, received their degrees in 1890. Smith would later lead a manufacturing enterprise in Dalton, Georgia and Crawford would head Birmingham, Alabama's large Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company.^[2] Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 12,769 undergraduates and 6,464 postgraduate students as of spring 2011^[update].^[3]

Award winners

Nobel laureates

Name Class year Notability References Jimmy Carter 1946 39th president of the United States (1977–1981); 2002 Nobel Peace laureate; Georgia Senator (1962–1966); 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) [4][5] Kary Mullis 1964 Won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences [6]

Scholars

Public figures

Business

Name Class year Notability References Rawi Abdelal 1993 Professor of business administration at Harvard Business School [19] Ronald W. Allen 1964 President, chairman and CEO of Delta Air Lines (1987–1997); chairman and CEO of Aaron's, Inc. (2012–2014) [20] Gil Amelio 1965 CEO emeritus of National Semiconductor and Apple; IEEE Fellow [21] Charles "Garry" Betty 1979 President and CEO of EarthLink (1996–2007) [22] W. Frank Blount 1961 Businessman, chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of Telstra in Australia [23] John F. Brock 1971 Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. [24] Paul J. Brown 1989 CEO at Inspire Brands [25] Gary C. Butler 1968 CEO of Automatic Data Processing [26] Brook Byers 1968 Venture capitalist of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers [27] Ben Chestnut 1998 Co-founder and CEO, MailChimp [28] George G. Crawford 1890 Headed the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company [2] Cecil B. Day 1958 Founder of Days Inn Hotels [29] David Dorman 1975 Chairman and CEO emeritus of AT&T Corporation [30] Mike Duke 1971 Former President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores [31] Walter Ehmer 1989 President and CEO of Waffle House [32] David C. Garrett, Jr. 1955 CEO of Delta Air Lines (1978–1987) [33] Jaime Gilinski 1978 Chairman of JGB Financial Holding Company [34] Frank Gordy 1929 Founder of The Varsity chain, which includes the world's largest drive-in [35] James Gulliver 1950 Founder of Argyll Foods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses [36] Dennis Hayes 1973 Founder of Hayes Communications, an early developer of PC modems [37] Ed Iacobucci 1975 Leader of the IBM OS/2 Design Team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors [38] Chris Klaus 1994 Founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc.; co-founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems; His company was acquired by IBM for over $1.3 Billion. He donated $15 million to Georgia Tech toward the construction of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building which is named after him. [39] Roger Krone 1978 CEO of Leidos Holdings Inc. [40] Alan J. Lacy 1975 Last chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company [41] Mike Levy 1969 Founder and current CEO of Maxxpoint.com; founder and former president, chairman and CEO of Sportsline.com, now CBSSports.com [42] David S. Lewis, Jr. 1939 Major force in the aerospace and defense industry for three decades [43] Calvin Mackie 1996 Award-winning mentor; motivational speaker; entrepreneur [44] Scottie Mayfield 1973 President of Mayfield Dairy Farms [45] Robert Milton 1983 Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada. Former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings which is the parent company of United Airlines. [46] Charles Moorman 1975 Former CEO of Norfolk Southern, current CEO of Amtrak[47] [48] Blake Moret 1985 Current president and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc. [49] David Perdue 1972 Former CEO of Dollar General and Reebok International; Former Georgia US Senator [50] J. Paul Raines 1985 CEO of GameStop [51] Hazard E. Reeves 1928 Introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to motion pictures; was president of over 60 companies, including Cinerama [52] Jean Marie Richardson 2002 Founder and CEO of iFOLIO [53] Glen P. Robinson 1948 Researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute; went on to found Scientific Atlanta [54] James D. Robinson III 1957 CEO of American Express Co. (1977–1993); director of The Coca-Cola Company (1975–present) [55] Joe Rogers, Jr. 1968 Longtime CEO of Waffle House [56] Chuck Sannipoli 1967 Executive in the data networking industry; Senior Member of the IEEE [57] Derek V. Smith 1979 CEO of ChoicePoint (1997–2008) [58][59] Mark C. Smith 1962 Co-founder of ADTRAN, Inc. [60][61] E. Roe Stamps 1967 Founding managing partner of venture capital firm Summit Partners; member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees [62] Henry Grady Weaver 1911 Director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, appeared on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time magazine [63] George W. Woodruff 1917 Engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who gave generously to both Georgia Tech and Emory University; namesake of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering [64]

Education

Name Class year Notability References G. Wayne Clough 1964 Georgia Tech president (1994–2008); secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (2008–2015) [65] Robert H. Frank 1966 Chaired professor of management and economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University; contributor to the "Economic View" column, which appears every fifth Sunday in The New York Times [66] Y. Frank Freeman 1910 Movie executive with Paramount Pictures; first winner of Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award; helped establish and was first president of both the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation [67] George C. Griffin 1922 Long-time dean of students at Georgia Tech [68] Evelynn M. Hammonds 1976 Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and African American Studies at Harvard University and dean of Harvard College (2008–2013) [69] Carolyn Meyers 1979 President of Jackson State University, previously the president of Norfolk State University from 2006 to 2010 [70]

Politics and public service

Name Class year Notability References Dean Alford 1976 Member of the Georgia General Assembly (1983–1993); president and CEO of Allied Energy Services [71] Ivan Allen, Jr. 1933 Mayor of Atlanta (1962–1970) [72] Raymond W. Baker 1957 Director of Global Financial Integrity, a think tank in Washington, DC [73] Timothy Batten 1981 United States federal judge since his nomination by George W. Bush in 2005 and confirmation in 2006 [74] Max Burns 1973 Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (2003–2005) [75] Charles M. Brown 1925 Member of the Georgia State Senate (1957–1964); chairman of commission (1945–1947, 1976–1978, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974); Fulton County commissioner (1941–1948, 1966–1979) [76][77] Howard Callaway 1945 Businessman; US Secretary of Army (1973–1975); Georgian Member of US House of Representatives (1965–1967) [78][79] Mario Canahuati 1977 Advisor of Honduras Government team during the negotiations of CAFTA; former Honduras Ambassador in the US; former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras; affiliated with PNH [80][81] Jack Carter 1972 Businessman and politician; son of Jimmy Carter [82][83] Jimmy Carter 1946 39th president of the United States (1977–1981); 2002 Nobel Peace laureate; member of the Georgia State Senate (1962–1966); 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) [4][5] J. Owen Forrester 1961 United States federal judge since his appointment by Ronald Reagan in 1981 [84] Phil Gingrey 1965 Georgian Member of US House of Representatives (2003–2015) [85] Johnny Grant 1972 Member of the Georgia State Senate representing the 25th district of Georgia [86][87] Jack Guynn 1969 Former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; member of Oxford Industries' board of directors [30][88] John W. Keys 1964 Director of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (2001–2006) [89] Jon C. Kreitz 1986 Nominated by the President to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (September 2020) [90] Tom Moreland 1955 30+ year career with the Georgia Department of Transportation, Commissioner and/or Chief Engineer for the last 17 years; namesake of the Tom Moreland Interchange [91] Sam Nunn 1956 Georgian Member of the US Senate (1972–1997); CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative; received an honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2008 [92][93] Stephen Pace 1912 Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (1937–1951); member of the Georgia State Senate (1923–1924); member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1917–1920) [94] E. Earl Patton 1949 Georgia state senator and Atlanta businessman; first Republican to run for US senator from Georgia (1968) since Reconstruction [95] Paul Craig Roberts 1961 Economist and political pundit; served as Undersecretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan [96] Chip Rogers 1991 Politician in the Georgia General Assembly since 2002; selected as Georgia State Senate Majority Leader in 2009 [97] Mark D. Sickles 1984 Politician in the Virginia House of Delegates since November 2003 [98] Orson Swindle 1959 Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States (1997–2005); decorated Vietnam War prisoner of war [99] Juan Carlos Varela 1985 Former Vice President of Panama from 2009 to 2014; current President of Panama since 2014 [100][101] Daniel Webster 1971 Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives; longest-serving Florida legislator [102] Rufus W. Youngblood 1950 United States Secret Service agent who shielded Lyndon B. Johnson in the assassination of John F. Kennedy [103]

Military service

Name Class year Notability References Edward C. Aldridge, Jr. 1962 Served in many top U.S. Defense Department and defense industry jobs, including as the 16th Air Force secretary [104] William L. Ball 1969 67th Secretary of the Navy (March 28, 1988 – May 15, 1989) [105] John Boyd 1964 USAF fighter pilot, engineer and military strategist [106] Philip M. Breedlove 1977 Retired Four-star general in the United States Air Force and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force [107] John M. Brown III 1969 Commander of United States Army Pacific Command [108] Ray Davis 1938 Assistant Commandant of the USMC; Korean War Medal of Honor recipient [109] James O. Ellis 1970 Retired 4-star admiral; former Commander of United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base [110] Pete Geren 1973 Served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16, 2007 to September 16, 2009; former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas; currently president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas [111][112] Russell D. Hale 1969 United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) (1981–1984) [113] Haywood S. Hansell 1924 USAF major general; air combat commander and strategist of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II [114] Hugh W. Hardy 1944 United States Marine Corps Reserves major general; geoscientist [115] John W. Hendrix 1965 Retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commander, United States Army Forces Command (1999–2001) [116] Jon C. Kreitz 1986 United States Navy Rear Admiral [117] Orlando Llenza 1951 Second Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Major General in the USAF [118] Thomas McGuire 1941 Second leading USAAF ace of World War II with 38 victories; Medal of Honor recipient [119] Peter M. Rhee 1983 Surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran; spent 24 years in the United States Navy serving as a battlefield casualty physician in Afghanistan and Iraq [120] William G. Thrash 1939 Retired United States Marine Corps three-star general; highly decorated Naval Aviator [121] James A. Winnefeld, Jr. 1978 United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former fourth commander, U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and 21st commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) [122] Leonard Wood 1894 Medal of Honor recipient, Governor-General of the Philippines and Cuba, 5th Chief of Staff of the Army[123]

Science and engineering

NASA and aerospace

Name Class year Notability References Eric Boe 1997 NASA astronaut (STS-126, STS-133) [124] Michael R. Clifford 1982 NASA astronaut (STS-53, STS-59, STS-76); former US Army lieutenant colonel [125] Jan Davis 1975 Retired NASA astronaut (STS-47, STS-60, STS-85); current director of the Safety and Mission Assurance directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center [126] James Henry Deese 1935 NASA administrator [127] Ben T. Epps 1904 Known as "Georgia's First Aviator"; aviation pioneer; in 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the Epps 1907 Monoplane, followed by other original monoplane and biplane designs [128] Gabriel Georgiades 1979 Professor of aerospace engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona [129] L. Blaine Hammond 1974 Retired NASA astronaut (STS-39, STS-64) [130] Charlie Hillard 1958 Aerobatics pilot; first American to win the world aerobatics title [131] Scott J. Horowitz 1982 Retired NASA astronaut (STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105) [132] Ellis L. Johnson 1960 Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech [133] Susan Still Kilrain 1985 Retired NASA astronaut (STS-83, STS-94) [134] Robert S. Kimbrough 1998 NASA astronaut (STS-127); Among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster [135] Charles Kohlhase 1957 Worked for forty years at NASA/JPL leading the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions [136] Timothy Kopra 1995 NASA astronaut (STS-127); flight engineer and science officer of the International Space Station; US Army lieutenant colonel [137] Sandra Magnus 1996 NASA astronaut (STS-112, STS-126, STS-119, STS-135); member of the ISS Expedition 18 [138][139] William S. McArthur 1983 NASA astronaut (STS-58, STS-74, STS-92); veteran of three Space Shuttle missions; veteran of one mission to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule [140] Yvonne Pendleton 1979 Chief Scientist and first director of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute; first director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute [141] Alan G. Poindexter 1986 NASA astronaut (STS-122, STS-131) [142] James R. Thompson, Jr. 1958 Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (1986–1989); NASA's deputy director (1989–1991) [143] Joe F. Thompson 1971 Aerospace engineer and chaired professor at Mississippi State University known for contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics [144] Sabrina Thompson 2009 Aerospace engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center and founder of fashion brand Girl in Space Club [145] Richard H. Truly 1959 Retired NASA Astronaut (Approach and Landing Tests, STS-2, STS-8); Retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy; 8th Administrator of NASA (1989–1992); head of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1993–1998) [146] Douglas H. Wheelock 1992 NASA astronaut (STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19, Expedition 24/25) [147][148] John Young 1952 Retired NASA astronaut (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9); first commander of the Space Shuttle, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 [149]

Physics

Name Class year Notability References Bascom S. Deaver 1952 Physicist known for his research into superconductor applications; professor and assistant chairman for undergraduate studies of the physics department at the University of Virginia [150] Robert V. Gentry 1963 Nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth; entered the physics doctoral program at Georgia Tech, but left when he was refused permission to work on the age of the Earth for his dissertation [151][152] Arnold Hardy 1945 Physicist and amateur photographer who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography [153] Hagen Kleinert 1964 Professor of theoretical physics at the Free University of Berlin [154] Kenneth Lane 1964 Physicist; physics professor at Boston University [155] Earl W. McDaniel 1948 Regents Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Tech Research Institute; known for his contributions to the field of ion-mobility spectrometry [156] W. Jason Morgan 1957 Geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics; 2003 National Medal of Science recipient; geosciences professor at Princeton University [157]

Chemistry and biology

Name Class year Notability References Anthony J. Arduengo III 1974 Chemist known for his work in the field of stable carbene research [158] Paul K. Calaway 1933 Chemical engineer and the director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1954–1957) [159] Ronald Collé 1969 Specialist in nuclear and radiochemistry and radionuclidic metrology [160] James R. Fair 1942 Chemical engineer who worked in a variety of industrial positions, primarily for Monsanto Company; then joined academia and held a named chair at the University of Texas at Austin School of Chemical Engineering [161] Irving Geis 1927 Artist who worked closely with biologists; his hand-drawn work depicts many structures of biological macromolecules, such as DNA and proteins [162] Linda Griffith 1982 Biomedical engineer and professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [163] Kary Mullis 1964 Won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences [6] David Rasnick 1978 Biochemist; AIDS denialist; former president of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis [164] Wyatt C. Whitley 1934 Chemist, professor of chemistry and director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1963–1968) [165]

Engineering

Name Class year Notability References Joe Brooks 1982 Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Electronic Systems Laboratory [166] Wallace H. Coulter 1934 Electrical engineer; inventor; businessman; discovered the Coulter principle, which provides a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid; namesake of Georgia Tech and Emory's Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering [167] Ali Erdemir 1982 Turkish materials scientist specializing in surface engineering and tribology [168] David Frakes 2003 Distinguished Faculty Fellow in biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [169] Don Giddens 1963 Dean of Georgia Tech's College of Engineering (1992–2011) [170][171] Samuel Graham 1999 Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech [172] Linda Griffith 1982 Biological engineer; MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, National Academy of Engineering [173] Paula T. Hammond 1988 Polymer engineer; Head of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering; Fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [174] John Calvin Jureit 1949 Inventor of the Gang-Nail connector plate [175] Dean Kamen 2008 Entrepreneur and inventor; received honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2008 [93] Michel G. Malti 1922 Electrical engineer known for his work in circuit analysis [176] Gary S. May 1985 Former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering; notable in the field of computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits [177] Tom McDermott 1982 Deputy director and director of research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute since 2007; previously chief engineer and program manager for Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor Avionics Team [178] Robert C. Michelson 1974 Roboticist; recipient of the 2001 Pirelli Award; recipient of 2001 Top Pirelli Prize; inventor of the Entomopter [179][180][181] Lane Mitchell 1929 Ceramic engineer at Georgia Tech and the founder of its Department of Ceramic Engineering, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering [182] Bryan Nesbitt 1988 Automobile designer; head of General Motors Corporation International Operations Design; transferred to Art Center College of Design after his first year at Georgia Tech [183] Herbert Saffir 1940 Developer of the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale [184] Jeff S. Shamma 1983 Control theorist, professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering [185] W. Harry Vaughan 1923 Professor of ceramic engineering at Georgia Tech and the founder and first director of what is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute [186] Harrison Wadsworth, Jr. 1949 Professor of industrial engineering at Georgia Tech; supply sergeant during World War II and the Korean War [187] B. N. Wilson 1896 Professor, engineer, and college football coach; professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University (now known as the University of Arkansas) [188]

Computer and information science

Name Class year Notability References Jim Allchin 1984 Former high-level executive at Microsoft [189] Eric Allender 1985 Computer Science professor at Rutgers University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2006 to 2009 [190] Annie Antón 1997 Chair and professor, School of Interactive Computing (Georgia Tech); professor of software engineering at NCSU; privacy expert [191] Krishna Bharat 1996 Google research scientist; creator of Google News [192] Sagar Savla 2014 Google machine learning researcher; co-creator of Live Transcribe [193] Fabian E. Bustamante 2001 Computer science professor at Northwestern University [194] Joe Celko 1982 Relational database expert from Austin, Texas; participated in the ANSI X3H2 Database Standards Committee; helped write the SQL-89 and SQL-92 standards [195] Dorothy M. Crosland 1961 Long-time head librarian of the Georgia Tech Library, awarded honorary degree in 1961 [196] Tom Cross 1999 Entrepreneur; computer security expert; hacker [197][198] Jim Davies 1997 Cognitive scientist, playwright, artist; assistant professor of cognitive science at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he is the director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory [199] Richard DeMillo 1974 Former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing; Distinguished Professor of Computing; previous director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center [200][201] Anind Dey 1995 Computer scientist, currently an associate professor and the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University [202] W. Keith Edwards 1989 Director of the GVU Center (Georgia Tech); professor of School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech; former manager of the Ubiquitous Computing group at PARC [203] Chaim Gingold 2003 Noted for his work with Spore [204] D. Richard Hipp 1984 Architect and primary author of SQLite [205] Billy Hoffman 2005 Hacker, discovered a security flaw in Buzzcard, the campus magnetic ID card system [206] Ed Iacobucci 1975 Leader of the IBM OS/2 design team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors [38] William Stuart Michelson 2013 Known for Human Factors and Human Systems Integration for DoD applications and fully autonomous unmanned systems as the organizer of the International Aerial Robotics Competition American Venue. [207][208] Craig Mundie 1972 Chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft [209] Elizabeth Mynatt 1989 Executive director, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech; director of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech; associate dean of strategic planning, Georgia Tech College of Computing [210] James F. O'Brien 2000 Computer science professor at University of California, Berkeley [211] Jeff Offutt 1988 Computer science professor of software engineering at George Mason University; software testing expert; editor-in-chief of Software Testing, Verification & Reliability journal [212] Shwetak Patel 2003 Computer science entrepreneur and professor at University of Washington Rosalind Picard 1984 Founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT [213][214] Mike Pinkerton 1997 Software developer working on the Mozilla browsers and Google Chrome browser; lectures on "Development of Open Source Software" at George Washington University [215] Anand Sivasubramaniam 1995 Computer science Distinguished professor at The Pennsylvania State University [216] Alex Snoeren 1997 Computer science professor at University of California, San Diego [217] Gene Spafford 1981 Computer science professor at Purdue University; computer security expert [218] Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa 1981 Computer science professor at California Institute of Technology; machine learning expert [219] James Mickens 2001 Computer science professor at Harvard; distributed systems expert [220]

Mathematics

Humanities

Architecture and design

Arts and entertainment

Name Class year Notability References Robert L. Bidez 1912 First director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, which he founded in 1908 as a student [234] Jim Butterworth 1984 Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker; director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train, holder of numerous U.S. and foreign patents in the field of streaming media [235] Jorge Cham 1997 Creator of Piled Higher and Deeper comics; post-doctoral instructor and researcher at Caltech [236] Jeff Crouse 2006 Artist and hacker/creative technologist who works with live data feeds from the internet to make artwork [237] James Crumley 1958 Author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays [238] Ed Dodd 1925 20th-century cartoonist; known for his Mark Trail comic strip [239] Lamar Dodd 1928 Painter known for work portraying the American South [240] Jeff Foxworthy 1979 Comedian and creator/producer of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour; host of both the network and syndicated versions of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [241] Phil Gordon 1991 Professional poker player [242] Bones Howe 1956 Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits, mostly of the sunshine pop genre, including most of the hits of The 5th Dimension and The Association [243] Mark Lee 1995 Member of the Christian band Third Day [244] Nicole Jordan 1976 Best-selling author of romance novels [245] Nagesh Kukunoor 1993 Bollywood movie director and actor [246] Edlyn Lewis 1998 1998 Miss Georgia USA; competitor in the Miss USA 1998 pageant [247][248] Vivek Maddala 1995 Composer and musician [249] Matt Moulthrop 2004 Woodturner and artist [250] Arthur Murray 1923 Dance instructor and businessman [251] Wallace Potts 1970 Independent film director; archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation [252] Andy Runton 1998 BS 1998, MS 2000, both in Industrial Design; creator of the Owly graphic novels [253] John Salley 1988 Co-host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period and former NBA player [254] Danny Gonzalez 2016 Popular Youtuber and Vine Personality [255] Jarvis Johnson 2014 Popular commentary youtuber [256] Randolph Scott 1924 Movie star of the 1940s and 1950s [257]

Athletics

Despite their highly technical backgrounds, Tech graduates are no strangers to athletics; approximately 150 Tech students have gone into the NFL, with many others going into the NBA or MLB. Well-known American football athletes include former students Calvin Johnson, Daryl Smith, and Keith Brooking, former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher, and all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton, Pat Swilling, Billy Shaw, and Joe Guyon. Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Javaris Crittenton, Thaddeus Young, Jarrett Jack, Luke Schenscher, Stephon Marbury, Derrick Favors, Iman Shumpert, Chris Bosh, and Travis Best. Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown, Mark Teixeira, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Erskine Mayer, and Jay Payton. In golf, the legendary Bobby Jones founded The Masters, David Duval was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2001, Stewart Cink was the 2009 Open Championship winner, was ranked in the top ten, and Matt Kuchar won the U.S. Amateur.

Fictional people

Name Class year Notability References George P. Burdell NA Fictitious student officially enrolled in 1927, and who has been continuously enrolled since his "graduation" in 1930 [258] Charlie Croker NA Character in Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full [259] Robert W. Graves NA G.I. Joe character known as "Grunt" [260] S.R. Hadden NA Business magnate and character in Contact [261] Barbara "Bobbi" Morse NA Marvel Comics superheroine Mockingbird; former Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a member of the New Avengers [262][263] Mikey Abbey 2023 These fictional graduates have lived in Georgia for almost 2 decades. [262][263] Two Bits Man NA Anonymous humor columnist; typically majoring in a computer-related discipline [264]