List of College of William & Mary alumni

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A statue of James Monroe, the United States' fifth president, stands before Tucker Hall at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia

The College of William & Mary, located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, was founded in 1693 by a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II. It is a public research university and has more than 94,000 living alumni.

Alumni of William & Mary have played important roles in shaping the United States. Three of the country's first ten presidents were educated there, one more than Harvard University's two. The school is also the alma mater of four United States Supreme Court justices (including its longest-serving chief justice, John Marshall). Because the school was one of the few colleges existing in the Colonies, many colonial era notables enrolled including four signers of the Declaration of Independence and the first president of the Continental Congress, Peyton Randolph.

This list of alumni includes those who graduated, transferred to another school, dropped out, or were fully educated at the college but never received an academic degree. This list uses the following notations:

• Year # – recipient of a William & Mary Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Business Administration degree
  • Note: A question mark represents an unverifiable value for the digit it replaced. For instance, the "?" in "179?" means that no specific year can be found, but the general decade can be traced.
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) – recipient of a William & Mary Law School degree or the historical equivalent such as Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) or Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) – recipient of a Mason School of Business degree or the historical equivalent
• Master of Education (M.Ed.) – recipient of a Graduate School of Education degree or the historical equivalent
• Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Science (M.S.) or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program or the historical equivalent

Federal government

Executive

President (Continental Congress)

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1739	First president of the Continental Congress (1774–75); attorney general of the Virginia Colony; buried beneath the Wren Chapel of William & Mary

Presidents (Constitution)

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1762 / LL.D. 1783	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1779–81); ambassador to France (1785–89); U.S. secretary of state (1789–93); vice president of the U.S. (1797–1801); president of the U.S. (1801–09); founded the University of Virginia (1819)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Virginia (1816–21); governor of Virginia (1825–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1827–36); vice president of the U.S. (1841); president of the U.S. (1841–45)
Template:Sortname*	1749*	* Unofficial - received a surveyor's license only, never attended classes First president of the United States (1789–97)

Cabinet

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1803	Member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1807); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1810–11); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1814–16); member of the Kentucky Senate (1817–21); lieutenant governor of Kentucky (1820–24); secretary of state of Kentucky (1824–25); U.S. Postmaster General (1829–35); ambassador to Spain (1835)
Template:Sortname	1792	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1811–14, 1829–35); U.S. secretary of the treasury (1844–45)
Template:Sortname	1781	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1801–05); U.S. attorney general (1805–06)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1806–07, 1810–11, 1831–42, 1849–52); U.S. representative for Kentucky (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1811–14, 1815–20, 1820–23); U.S. secretary of state (1825–29)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1817–19, 1835–41, 1842–48, 1855–61); U.S. attorney general (1841, 1850–53); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1861–63); governor of Kentucky (1848–50)
Template:Sortname	1965	Deputy national security adviser (1989–91); head of the Central Intelligence Agency (1991–93); U.S. secretary of defense (2006–2012); chancellor of the College of William and Mary (2012–present)
Template:Sortname	1762 / LL.D. 1783	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1779–81); ambassador to France (1785–89); U.S. secretary of state (1789–93); vice president of the U.S. (1797–1801); president of the U.S. (1801–09); founded the University of Virginia (1819)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1800); U.S. secretary of state (1800–01); chief justice of the U.S. (1801–35)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1811	U.S. representative from Maryland (1821–23); chargé d'affaires to the Two Sicilies (1831–32); U.S. attorney general (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	1770	Governor of Virginia (1786–88); U.S. attorney general (1789–94); U.S. secretary of state (1794–95)
Template:Sortname	1980	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2010–2013), Counselor of the United States Department of State (2013–2016), U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2011, 2016–present), acting United States Secretary of State (2017), acting United States Deputy Secretary of State (2017)
Template:Sortname	1825	Transferred to the University of Virginia; U.S. representative for Virginia (1841–43); U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1850–53); member of the Virginia Senate (1857–61)

Ambassadors

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1804	U.S. representative from Kentucky (1817–21); first U.S. ambassador to Colombia (1823)
Template:Sortname	1803	Member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1807); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1810–11); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1814–16); member of the Kentucky Senate (1817–21); lieutenant governor of Kentucky (1820–24); secretary of state of Kentucky (1824–25); U.S. Postmaster General (1829–35); U.S. ambassador to Spain (1835)
Template:Sortname	1806	U.S. chargé d'affaires to Chile (1845–47)
Template:Sortname	1784	First secretary of state of Kentucky (1793-?); U.S. senator from Louisiana (1813–17, 1819–23); U.S. ambassador to France (1824–29)
Template:Sortname	1972	U.S. ambassador to Honduras (2005–08)
Template:Sortname	1972	U.S. ambassador to Laos (2000–04)
Template:Sortname	1762 / LL.D. 1783	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1779–81); U.S. ambassador to France (1785–89); U.S. secretary of state (1789–93); vice president of the U.S. (1797–1801); president of the U.S. (1801–09); founded the University of Virginia (1819)
Template:Sortname	1980	U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2014–2018)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); U.S. ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1780	Member of the Virginia Senate (1786–91); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1805–09, 1828–29); U.S. representative from Virginia (1811–23); U.S. ambassador to Spain (1823–24)
Template:Sortname	1811	U.S. representative from Maryland (1821–23); chargé d'affaires to the Two Sicilies (1831–32); U.S. attorney general (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	1809	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1817–20, 1822–23); U.S. representative from Virginia (1823–29); U.S. ambassador to France (1829–32, 1849–53); U.S. senator from Virginia (1832–34, 1836–39, 1841–45); representative to the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia
Template:Sortname	1977	U.S. ambassador to Algeria (2000–2003); U.S. ambassador to Haiti (2006–2009); recipient of U.S. State Department's Herbert A. Salzman Award
Template:Sortname	1846	Member of the California Assembly (1854–56); U.S. representative from California (1857–61); U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (1885–89)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2010–2013), Counselor of the United States Department of State (2013–2016), U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2011, 2016–present), Acting United States Secretary of State (2017), Acting United States Deputy Secretary of State (2017)
Template:Sortname	1779	U.S. ambassador to France (1790–92), the Netherlands (1792), and Spain (1794–95)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Dropped out for military service; U.S. consul in Martinique; U.S. consul-general in France; instrumental in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase; president of the Republic of West Florida in 1810
Template:Sortname	1800	U.S. representative from Virginia (1821–34); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1827–33); U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	1809	U.S. ambassador to Russia (1841–45)

Judiciary

United States Supreme Court

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1799	U.S. representative from Virginia (1814–30); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1821–23); U.S. district court judge (E.D. Va.) (1830–36); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	1754	Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1789–95)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1800); U.S. secretary of state (1800–01); chief justice of the U.S. (1801–35)
Template:Sortname	1778	Co-founder of Phi Beta Kappa society (1776); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1799–1829)

Other federal courts

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1968	U.S. magistrate judge (E.D.N.Y.) (1986–90); U.S. district court judge (E.D.N.Y.) (1990–present)
Template:Sortname	1799	U.S. representative from Virginia (1814–30); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1821–23); U.S. district court judge (E.D. Va.) (1830–36); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	1824	U.S. district court judge (W.D. Va.) (1846–61) and founder of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. district court judge (E.D. Pa.) (1990–2003)
Template:Sortname	1971 / J.D. 1974	U.S. magistrate judge (W.D. Va.) (1976–2003); U.S. district judge (W.D. Va. 2003–present)
Template:Sortname	1924 / L.L.B. 1926	U.S. district court judge (W.D. Va.) (1959–89); chief judge (W.D. Va.) (1960–71)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Associate justice (one of the original) of the Mississippi Supreme Court (1818–25); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1825–26, 1827–32); U.S. district court judge (D. Miss.) (1832–36)
Template:Sortname	J.D. 1930	U.S. district court judge (E.D. Va.) (1954–96); chief judge (E.D. Va.) (1961–73)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. district court judge (E.D. Va.) (1944–69)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. circuit court judge (Fed. Cir.) (1987–2010)
Template:Sortname	17??	First chief justice of the Mississippi Territory
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Virginia Military Institute; U.S. representative from Minnesota (1897–1903); U.S. district court judge (D. Minn.) (1903–23)
Template:Sortname	1941	U.S. attorney (D. Ariz.) (1961–64); U.S. district court judge (D. Ariz.) (1964–2007); chief judge (D. Ariz.) (1979–84)
Template:Sortname	1964	U.S. district court judge (M.D. Fla.) (2000–present)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Louisiana (1812–18); governor of Louisiana (1820–24); U.S. district court judge (D. La.) (1825–27)
Template:Sortname	1971 / J.D. 1979	U.S. magistrate judge (E.D. Va.) (1985–89); U.S. district court judge (E.D. Va.) (1989–present) (Virginia's first female federal judge)
Template:Sortname	1986	U.S. district court judge (S.D.N.Y.) (2007–18); U.S. circuit court judge (2d Cir.) (2018–present)
Template:Sortname	1793	U.S. circuit court judge (4th Cir.) (1801–02)
Template:Sortname	1772	Lawyer and professor of law at William & Mary; justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1803–11); U.S. district court judge (D. Va.) (1813–?)
Template:Sortname	1754	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1777–88); governor of Virginia (1808–11); U.S. district court judge (D. Va.) (1811–13)
Template:Sortname	J.D. 1987	U.S. magistrate judge (N.J.) (2000–06); U.S. district court judge (D.N.J.) (2006–present)

Legislative

Representatives (Continental Congress)

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1766	Member of Continental Congress (1774–75); served multiple terms in House of Burgesses; Colonial rights advocate who publicly opposed England's Stamp Act
Template:Sortname	1755	Member of Continental Congress (1775–76); signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
Template:Sortname	1763	Member of the Continental Congress (1779); an original justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–1824); chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1809–1824)
Template:Sortname	1745	Member of Continental Congress from Virginia (1774–77); signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1781–84)
Template:Sortname	1762 / LL.D. 1783	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1779–81); ambassador to France (1785–89); U.S. secretary of state (1789–93); vice president of the U.S. (1797–1801); president of the U.S. (1801–09); founded the University of Virginia (1819)
Template:Sortname	1775	Delegate to the Continental Congress (1787); U.S. representative from Maryland (1791–94); governor of Maryland (1801–03)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1752	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland (1778–80); governor of Maryland (1791–92)
Template:Sortname	1739	First president of the Continental Congress (1774–75); attorney general of the Virginia Colony; buried beneath the Wren Chapel of William & Mary
Template:Sortname	(1749)* * Unofficial - received a surveyor's license only, never attended classes	First president of the U.S. (1789–97)
Template:Sortname	1746	Member of Continental Congress (1775–76); signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776); America's first professor of law, College of William and Mary (1769–89)

Senators

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1806	U.S. representative from Virginia (1820–35); U.S. senator from Virginia (1841–47)
Template:Sortname	1803	Member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1807); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1810–11); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1814–16); member of the Kentucky Senate (1817–21); lieutenant governor of Kentucky (1820–24); secretary of state of Kentucky (1824–25); U.S. Postmaster General (1829–35); ambassador to Spain (1835)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Tennessee Senate (1809–11); U.S. senator from Missouri (1821–51); U.S. representative from Missouri (1853–55)
Template:Sortname	1795	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1811–1814); U.S. secretary of the treasury (1844–45)
Template:Sortname	1796	U.S. representative from Georgia (1807–13); U.S. senator from Georgia (1813–16); territorial governor of Alabama (1817–19); governor of Alabama (1819–20)
Template:Sortname	1832	U.S. senator from Virginia (1863–64)
Template:Sortname	1784	U.S. senator from Louisiana (1813–17, 1819–23); U.S. ambassador to France (1824–29)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–92); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1792–1805)
Template:Sortname	1808	U.S. senator from Alabama (1825–26)
Template:Sortname	1790	U.S. representative from Tennessee (1797–1801); governor of the Mississippi Territory (1801–05), Territory of Orleans (1803–12), and of Louisiana (1812–16); U.S. senator from Louisiana (1817)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1806–07, 1810–11, 1831–42, 1849–52); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1811–14, 1815–20, 1820–23); U.S. secretary of state (1825–29)
Template:Sortname	1848	Governor of Texas (1874–76); U.S. senator from Texas (1877–95)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1817–19, 1835–41, 1842–48, 1855–61); U.S. sttorney general (1841, 1850–53); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1861–63); governor of Kentucky (1848–50)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Associate justice (one of the original) of the Mississippi Supreme Court (1818–25); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1825–26, 1827–32); U.S. district court judge (D. Miss.) (1832–36)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1790–98, 1801–03); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1801, 1816–17, 1826–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1804–15); governor of Virginia (1827–30)
Guy D. Goff	18??	U.S. senator from West Virginia (1925–31)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1776, 1779, 1787, 1788, 1791); Virginia Senate (1777–79); U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1813)
Template:Sortname	1795	U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–1808); last governor of Mississippi Territory and first governor of Mississippi (1808–20, 1826); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1821–25)
Template:Sortname	1802	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1811–13, 1830–31); U.S. senator from Virginia (1834–36)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. senator from Virginia (1816–17)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. senator from Virginia (1794–1803)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1837–39); U.S. senator from Virginia (1847–61)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1815	U.S. senator from Florida (1849–55) and Confederate Representative (1861–62)
Template:Sortname	1816	U.S. senator from Louisiana (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	1779	U.S. senator from Virginia (1799–1804); U.S. representative from Virginia (1807–09); governor of Virginia (1814–17)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1797–1802); clerk of the Virginia House of Delegate (1803–11); U.S. representative from Virginia (1811–19); U.S. senator from Virginia (1819–22); governor of Virginia (1822–25)
Template:Sortname	1790	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1807–1813); governor of the Arkansas Territory (1829–35); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1837–43)
Template:Sortname	1809	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1817–20, 1822–23); U.S. representative from Virginia (1823–29); U.S. ambassador to France (1829–32, 1849–53); U.S. senator from Virginia (1832–34, 1836–39, 1841–45); member of the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia
Template:Sortname	1804	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1812–15); U.S. representative from Virginia (1815–17); U.S. senator from Virginia (1837–41)
Template:Sortname	1765	U.S. senator from Tennessee (1798–99, 1805–09)
Template:Sortname	1772	U.S. senator from Virginia (1792–94, 1803, 1822–23, 1823–24)
Template:Sortname	1770	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1785–89); chief justice of Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–93); U.S. senator from Virginia (1794–99)
Template:Sortname	1791	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1800, 1804–06, 1816–17); U.S. representative from Virginia (1800–01); U.S. senator from Virginia (1824–32); governor of Virginia (1834–36)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Virginia (1816–21); governor of Virginia (1825–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1827–36); vice president of the U.S. (1841); president of the U.S. (1841–45)
Template:Sortname	1764	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790)

Speakers of the House

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1799	U.S. representative from Virginia (1814–30); speaker of the House of Representatives (1821–1823); U.S. district judge (E.D. Va.) (1830–36); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1806–07, 1810–11, 1831–42, 1849–52); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1811–14, 1815–20, 1820–23); U.S. secretary of state (1825–29)
Template:Sortname	1813	U.S. representative from Virginia (1835–45); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–45); member of Virginia House of Delegates (1846–48)
Template:Sortname	1800	U.S. representative from Virginia (1821–34); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1827–33); U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1836–41)

Representatives

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	17??	U.S. representative from Tennessee (1819–27)
Template:Sortname	1804	U.S. representative from Kentucky (1817–21); first U.S. ambassador to Columbia (1823)
Template:Sortname	1806	U.S. representative from Virginia (1820–35); U.S. senator from Virginia (1841–47)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1843–49)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Minnesota (2007–2015)
Template:Sortname	1806	U.S. representative from Virginia (1838–41)
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1813–16, 1820–23, 1833–34); U.S. representative from Virginia (1823–33)
Template:Sortname	1799	U.S. representative from Virginia (1814–30); speaker of the House of Representatives (1821–1823); U.S. district judge (1830–36); associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	1803	Member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1807); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1810–11); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1814–16); member of the Kentucky Senate (1817–21); lieutenant governor of Kentucky (1820–24); secretary of state of Kentucky (1824–25); U.S. Postmaster General (1829–35); ambassador to Spain (1835)
Template:Sortname	1782	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1787–89); member of the Virginia Senate (1794–1805); U.S. representative from Virginia (1805–29)
Template:Sortname	1949	U.S. representative from Virginia (1982–2000)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Tennessee Senate (1809–11); U.S. senator from Missouri (1821–51); U.S. representative from Missouri (1853–55)
Template:Sortname	1991	U.S. representative from Pennsylvania (2005–2010)
Template:Sortname	1796	U.S. representative from Georgia (1807–13); U.S. senator from Georgia (1813–16); territorial governor of Alabama (1817–19); governor of Alabama (1819–20)
Template:Sortname	1896	U.S. representative from Virginia (1918–50)
Template:Sortname	1785	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1789–1802, 1806–08, 1819–21, 1823–24); U.S. representative from Virginia (1809–17)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–92); U.S. senator from Kentucky (1792–1805)
Template:Sortname	1801	U.S. representative from Virginia (1806–21) and presidential secretary
Template:Sortname	—	Left to join Revolutionary Army; member of Virginia House of Delegates (1785–92); U.S. representative from Virginia (1795–1803)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (2001–2014); House Minority Whip (2008–2011); House Majority Leader (2011–2014)
Template:Sortname	1975	U.S. representative from Ohio (1994–2009) (2011–present)
Template:Sortname	1790	U.S. representative from Tennessee (1797–1801); governor of the Mississippi Territory (1801–05), Territory of Orleans (1803–12), and of Louisiana (1812–16); U.S. senator from Louisiana (1817)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1806–07, 1810–11, 1831–42, 1849–52); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1811–14, 1815–20, 1820–23); U.S. secretary of state (1825–29)
Template:Sortname	1815	U.S. representative from Virginia (1829–33)
Template:Sortname	1768	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1780–81, 1783–88); U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–91, 1793–97)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Ohio (1959–63)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1817–19, 1835–41, 1842–48, 1855–61); U.S. attorney general (1841, 1850–53); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1861–63); governor of Kentucky (1848–50)
Template:Sortname	1837	Member of the Illinois Senate (1842–48, 1850–56); U.S. representative from Illinois (1856–57)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from North Carolina (1875–81)
Template:Sortname	1803	U.S. representative from Massachusetts (1831–33)
Template:Sortname	1843	Delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention (1850–51); member of the Virginia Senate (1852–65); U.S. representative from Virginia (1875–78)
Template:Sortname	1817	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1823–26); member of the Virginia Senate (1826–35); U.S. representative from Virginia (1835–41)
Template:Sortname	1857	Member of the Virginia Senate (1881–88); U.S. representative from Virginia (1889–95)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. representative from Virginia (1798–1801)
Template:Sortname	1775	U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–1801)
Template:Sortname	1915	U.S. representative from Pennsylvania (1933–39)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Florida's 1st congressional district (2017–2024)
Template:Sortname	1819	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1822–23, 1824–33, 1839–41, 1845–47); U.S. representative from Virginia (1841–43, 1852–53)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1813)
Template:Sortname	1776	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1784–86, 1805–08); U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–99)
Template:Sortname	1807	Member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1810–13); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1814–15)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia's 15th congressional district (1849–51)
Template:Sortname	1777	U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–97); founding member and first president of Phi Beta Kappa Society
Template:Sortname	1795	U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–1808); last governor of Mississippi Territory and first governor of Mississippi (1808–20, 1826); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1821–25)
Template:Sortname	1892	U.S. representative from Virginia (1921–25)
Template:Sortname	1797	U.S. representative from Kentucky (1807–10)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1797–1804, 1806, 1807, 1809–13); U.S. representative from Virginia (1813–20)
Template:Sortname	1813	U.S. representative from Virginia (1835–45); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	1760	U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–99, 1803–11)
Template:Sortname	1858	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1869–73, 1883–84); member of the Virginia Senate (1874–77); U.S. representative from Virginia (1891–93)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–95)
Template:Sortname	1844	U.S. representative from Louisiana (1875–77)
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1818–27); U.S. representative from Virginia (1830–31, 1833–37)
Template:Sortname	1780	U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1800); U.S. secretary of state (1800–01); Chief Justice of the U.S. (1801–35)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1837–39); U.S. senator from Virginia (1847–61)
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1881, 1882, 1885–88); U.S. representative from Virginia (1883–84)
Template:Sortname	1814	Member of the Virginia Senate (1823, 1830–39); U.S. representative from Virginia (1840–41)
Template:Sortname	1775	Delegate to the Continental Congress (1787); U.S. representative from Maryland (1791–94); governor of Maryland (1801–03)
Template:Sortname	1966	U.S. representative from West Virginia (1983–2011)
Template:Sortname	1874	U.S. attorney (W.D. Va.) (1893–98); attorney general of Virginia (1898–1902); governor of Virginia (1902–06); U.S. representative from Virginia (1913–37)
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Virginia Military Institute; U.S. representative from Minnesota (1897–1903); U.S. district court judge (D. Minn.) (1903–23)
Template:Sortname	1819	U.S. representative from Virginia's 9th congressional district (1849–51)
Template:Sortname	2000	U.S. representative from Florida's 7th congressional district (2017–present)
Template:Sortname	1780	Member of the Virginia Senate (1786–91); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1805–09, 1828–29); U.S. representative from Virginia (1811–23); U.S. ambassador to Spain (1823–24)
Template:Sortname	1811	U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th District (1821–23); chargé d'affaires to Two Sicilies (1831–32); U.S. attorney general (1843–45); U.S. secretary of state (ad interim) (six days, 1844)
Template:Sortname	1775	U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district (1804–10)
Template:Sortname	182?	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1826–32); U.S. representative from Virginia (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–1801); member of the New York Senate (1806–09)
Template:Sortname	1779	U.S. senator from Virginia (1799–1804); U.S. representative from Virginia (1807–09); governor of Virginia (1814–17)
Template:Sortname	1855	U.S. representative from Georgia (1879–81, 1883–85)
Template:Sortname	1757	Lieutenant governor of Virginia (1776–79); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1781–81, 1785–88, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1801); U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–1797); governor of Virginia (1802–05)
Template:Sortname	—	Left to join Revolutionary Army; U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1801)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Maryland (1801–05)
Template:Sortname	J.D. 1785	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1797–1802); clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates (1803–11); U.S. representative from Virginia (1811–19); U.S. senator from Virginia (1819–22); governor of Virginia (1822–25)
Template:Sortname	1790	Governor of the Arkansas Territory (1829–35); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1837–43)
Template:Sortname	1783	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1788–89, 1812–14); U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–97)
Template:Sortname	1783	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1793–94; 1819–20, 1823–25); U.S. representative from Virginia (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1819–22)
Template:Sortname	1809	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1817–20, 1822–23); U.S. representative from Virginia (1823–29); U.S. ambassador to France (1829–32; 1849–53); U.S. senator from Virginia (1832–34, 1836–39, 1841–45); member of the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia
Template:Sortname	1804	U.S. representative from Virginia (1834–39); member of the Virginia Senate (1861–63)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Louisiana (1812–18); governor of Louisiana (1820–24); U.S. district court judge (D. La.) (1825–27)
Template:Sortname	1819	U.S. representative from North Carolina (1837–39)
Template:Sortname	1846	Member of the California Assembly (1854–56); U.S. representative from California (1857–61); U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela (1885–89)
Template:Sortname	178?	U.S. representative from Georgia (1806–11)
Template:Sortname	1805	U.S. representative from Virginia (1821–24)
Template:Sortname	1802	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1810–13, 1824–26, 1836, 1837); U.S. representative from Virginia (1815–21)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1809–16, 1818–21) and served as speaker (1812–15); U.S. representative from Virginia (1821–34); speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1827–33); U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1836–41)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1806–09); U.S. representative from Virginia (1817–21)
Template:Sortname	1780	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1830–31); U.S. representative from Virginia (1837–39)
Template:Sortname	1791	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1800, 1804–06, 1816–17); U.S. representative from Virginia (1800–01); U.S. senator from Virginia (1824–32); governor of Virginia (1834–36)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1801–07)
Template:Sortname	1970	U.S. representative from Nevada (2009–2011, 2013–present)
Template:Sortname	1799	U.S. representative from Kentucky (1817–27)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to Washington and Lee University; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–32); Virginia Senate (1932–42); lieutenant governor of Virginia (1942–46); governor of Virginia (1946–50); U.S. representative from Virginia (1953–69)
Template:Sortname	1797	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1815); U.S. representative from Virginia (1819–25)
Template:Sortname	1798	U.S. representative from Virginia (1815–19); member of the Virginia Senate (1819–23); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1831–41)
Template:Sortname	1817	Member of the North Carolina House of Commons (1819–23); U.S. representative from North Carolina (1827–29)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Virginia (1816–21); governor of Virginia (1825–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1827–36); vice president of the U.S. (1841); president of the U.S. (1841–45)
Template:Sortname	1821	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1824); member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1836); member of the Ohio Senate (1838); U.S. representative from Ohio (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to Millersville University of Pennsylvania; U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 16th district (1977–97)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Representative from Virginia's 10th congressional district (2019–present)
Template:Sortname	1855	U.S. representative from Virginia (1881–89, 1889–90, 1891–95)
Template:Sortname	—	Left to join Confederate Army; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1885–87); U.S. representative from Virginia (1898–99, 1900)

Other federal positions

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Mayor of Richmond, Virginia (1783–84, 1788–89); first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1789–97, 1802–07); first librarian of the United States Congress (1802–07)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. attorney (W.D. Va.) (2001–06)
Template:Sortname	1977	U.S. attorney (D.N.J.); lead prosecutor in the Unabomber case
Template:Sortname	1982	FBI director (2013–17); U.S. deputy attorney general (2003–05); United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (2002–03)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (2005–08); assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2003–05); commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (2002–03); associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals (2016–present)
Template:Sortname	1975	Director of the National Park Service (2009–2017)
Template:Sortname	1981	United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (2003–2005)
Template:Sortname	1968	Undersecretary of the U.S. Navy (2001–03)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Lawyer; former FCC commissioner
Template:Sortname	1874	U.S. attorney (W.D. Va.) (1893–98); attorney general of Virginia (1898–1902); governor of Virginia (1902–06); U.S. representative from Virginia (1913–37)
Template:Sortname	1979	Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (2008–present); former general counsel of Cephalon (1998–2008)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. prosecutor (2000–2008), former acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2020)
Template:Sortname	1985	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (2001–05); son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell
Template:Sortname	2000	White House Press Secretary for Joe Biden (2020–2022); Assistant to the President of the United States and the White House Communications Director for Barack Obama (2009–2011); Spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015)
Template:Sortname	1980	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2010–2013), Counselor of the United States Department of State (2013–2016), U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2011, 2016–present), Acting United States Secretary of State (2017), Acting United States Deputy Secretary of State (2017)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. chargé d'affaires to Burma (2005–08)
Template:Sortname	1970	U.S. attorney (S.D.N.Y.) (1993–2002); chairwoman of the SEC (2013–2017)

State and local government

Governors

Virginia

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1793	Governor of Virginia (1805–08); judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1811–51); chief judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1841–52)
Template:Sortname	1954	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1966–72); member of the Virginia Senate (1972–73); lieutenant governor of Virginia (1974–78); governor of Virginia (1978–82)
Template:Sortname	1781	U.S. congressman from Virginia (1790–98, 1801–03); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1801, 1816–17, 1826–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1804–15); governor of Virginia (1827–30)
Template:Sortname	1934 / LL.D. 1966	Member of the Virginia Senate (1952–62); lieutenant governor of Virginia (1962–66); governor of Virginia (1966–70, 1974–78)
Template:Sortname	1832	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1831–40); governor of Virginia (1842–1843)
Template:Sortname	1745	Member of Continental Congress from Virginia (1774–77); signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1781–84)
Template:Sortname	1762 / LL.D. 1783	Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); governor of Virginia (1779–81); ambassador to France (1785–89); U.S. secretary of state (1789–93); vice president of the U.S. (1797–1801); president of the U.S. (1801–09); founded the University of Virginia (1819)
Template:Sortname	1776	U.S. senator from Virginia (1790–94); ambassador to France (1794–96); governor of Virginia (1799–1802); ambassador to Great Britain (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1811); U.S. secretary of state (1811–14, 1815–17); U.S. secretary of war (1814–15); president of the U.S. (1817–25)
Template:Sortname	1874	U.S. attorney (W.D. Va.) (1893–98); attorney general of Virginia (1898–1902); governor of Virginia (1902–06); U.S. representative from Virginia (1913–37)
Template:Sortname	1779	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1784–89, 1794–99); U.S. senator from Virginia (1799–1804); U.S. representative from Virginia (1807–09); governor of Virginia (1814–17)
Template:Sortname	1763	Lieutenant governor of Virginia (1776–79); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1781–83, 1785–88); U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–1797); governor of Virginia (1802–05)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1797–1802); clerk of the Virginia House of Delegate (1803–11); U.S. representative from Virginia (1811–19); U.S. senator from Virginia (1819–22); governor of Virginia (1822–25)
Template:Sortname	1795	Governor of Virginia (1816–19)
Template:Sortname	1772	Governor of Virginia (1788–91)
Template:Sortname	1770	Governor of Virginia (1786–88); U.S. attorney general (1789–1794); U.S. secretary of state (1794–95)
Template:Sortname	1798	Governor of Virginia (1811–12)
Template:Sortname	1783	Member of the Virginia Senate (1793–94); U.S. representative from Virginia (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1819–22)
Template:Sortname	1821	Governor of Virginia (1836–37); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1838–41, 1859–65)
Template:Sortname	1791	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1800, 1804–06, 1816–17); U.S. representative from Virginia (1800–01); U.S. senator from Virginia (1824–32); governor of Virginia (1834–36)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Virginia (1816–21); governor of Virginia (1825–27); U.S. senator from Virginia (1827–36); vice president of the U.S. (1841); president of the U.S. (1841–45)
Template:Sortname	1917 / LL.D. 1948	Governor of Virginia (1946–50); U.S. representative from Virginia (1953–69)
Template:Sortname	1765	Governor of Virginia (1808–11)

Other states and territories

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1796	U.S. representative from Georgia (1807–13); U.S. senator from Georgia (1813–16); territorial governor of Alabama (1817–19); governor of Alabama (1819–20)
Template:Sortname	1855	Governor of Florida (1881–85, 1897–1901)
Template:Sortname	1809	Governor of Mississippi (1825–26, 1826–32)
Template:Sortname	1790	U.S. representative from Tennessee (1797–1801); governor of the Mississippi Territory (1801–05), Territory of Orleans (1803–12), and Louisiana (1812–16); U.S. senator from Louisiana (1817)
Template:Sortname	1807	Governor of Illinois (1822–26)
Template:Sortname	1848	Associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1866–67); governor of Texas (1874–76); U.S. senator from Texas (1877–95)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. senator from Kentucky (1817–19, 1835–41, 1842–48, 1855–61); U.S. attorney general (1841, 1850–53); U.S. representative from Kentucky (1861–63); governor of Kentucky (1848–50)
Template:Sortname	1795	U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–1808); last governor of Mississippi Territory (?-1817); first governor of Mississippi (1817–19, 1826); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1821–25)
Template:Sortname	1797	Last governor of the Louisiana Territory; first governor of Missouri Territory (1810–12)
Template:Sortname	1775	Delegate to the Continental Congress (1787); U.S. representative from Maryland (1791–94); governor of Maryland (1801–03)
Template:Sortname	1946	Member of New Hampshire House of Representatives (1963–68); speaker of the N.H. House of Representatives (1965–68); governor of New Hampshire (1969–73)
Template:Sortname	1752	Delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland (1778–80); governor of Maryland (1791–92)
Template:Sortname	1790	Third governor of Arkansas Territory (1829–35); a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky (1837–43), secretary of state of Kentucky (1816–19)
Template:Sortname	1807	U.S. representative from Louisiana (1812–18); governor of Louisiana (1820–24); U.S. district court judge (D. La.) (1825–27)

State legislators

Virginia

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1942	Member of the Virginia Senate
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1818–20, 1841–42); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1842–52)
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1813–16, 1820–23, 1833–34); U.S. representative from Virginia (1823–33)
Template:Sortname	1782	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1787–89); member of the Virginia Senate (1794–1805); U.S. representative from Virginia (1805–29)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Commissioner of the Revenue (1848–49, 1850); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1857–58); justice of the peace (1860); member of the Secessionist Convention (1861); county judge (1870–1872)
Template:Sortname	1785	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1789–1802, 1806–08, 1819–21, 1823–24); U.S. representative from Virginia (1809–17)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1998–2014)
Template:Sortname	1991	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2006–present)
Template:Sortname	—	Left to join Revolutionary Army; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1785–92); U.S. representative from Virginia (1795–1803)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (2001–2014); House Minority Whip (2008–2011); House Majority Leader (2011–2014)
Template:Sortname	1763	Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and brother-in-law of Thomas Jefferson
Template:Sortname	1768	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1780–81, 1783–88); U.S. representative from Virginia (1789–91, 1793–97)
Template:Sortname	1843	Delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention (1850–51); member of the Virginia Senate (1852–65); U.S. representative from Virginia (1875–78)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–42); speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (1936–42)
Template:Sortname	1976 / J.D. 1982	Member of the Virginia Senate (1988–98); attorney general of Virginia (1998–2001)
Template:Sortname	1775	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1780–81, 1794–96, 1805–06); U.S. representative from Virginia (1797–1801)
Template:Sortname	1819	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1822–23, 1824–33, 1839–41, 1845–47); U.S. Congressman from Virginia (1841–43, 1852–53)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1776, 1779, 1787, 1788, 1791); Virginia Senate (1777–79); U.S. representative from Virginia (1799–1813)
Template:Sortname	1832	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1831–40); governor of Virginia (1842–1843)
Template:Sortname	1979	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1988–2009)
Template:Sortname	1776	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1784–86, 1805–08); U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–99)
Template:Sortname	1956	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1960–66); member of the Virginia Senate (1966–71); lieutenant governor of Virginia (1971–73)
Template:Sortname	1986	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2003–present)
Template:Sortname	2010	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2018–2022), attorney general of Virginia (2026-)
Template:Sortname	1699	Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1714, 1715, 1718) from King William County; grandfather of Martha Washington
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1797–1804, 1806, 1807, 1809–13); U.S. representative for Virginia (1813–20)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1993–present)
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1818–27); U.S. representative for Virginia (1830–31, 1833–37)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia Senate (2017–present); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2014–2016)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2002–05); member of the Virginia Senate (2005–present)
Template:Sortname	1979	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1992–98); member of the Virginia Senate (1998–2006); 46th attorney general of Virginia (2009–10); justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010–present)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2016–present), attorney general, Commonwealth of Virginia
Template:Sortname	1780	Member of the Virginia Senate (1786–91); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1805–09, 1828–29); U.S. representative for Virginia (1811–23); U.S. ambassador to Spain (1823–24)
Template:Sortname	182?	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1826–32); U.S. representative for Virginia (1843–45)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia Senate (1992–present); majority leader of the Virginia Senate (2012–present)
Template:Sortname	1777	Member of the Virginia Convention (1775); judge of the Virginia Admiralty Court (1776); member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1777-?); speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (1778-?); member of the Privy Council (1779-?)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1793–94; 1819–20, 1823–25); U.S. representative for Virginia (1803–07); governor of Virginia (1819–22)
Template:Sortname	1967	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Template:Sortname	1804	U.S. representative for Virginia (1834–39); member of the Virginia Senate (1861–63)
Template:Sortname		Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2022–present)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1806–09); U.S. representative for Virginia (1817–21)
Template:Sortname	1867	Democratic delegate for Norfolk in the Virginia House of Delegates; founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity; businessman, politician, and philanthropist
Template:Sortname	1791	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1798–1800, 1804–06, 1816–17); U.S. representative for Virginia (1800–01); U.S. senator for Virginia (1824–32); governor of Virginia (1834–36)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1793–97); U.S. representative for Virginia (1801–07)
Template:Sortname	1992	Member of the Virginia Senate (2007–2009)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Virginia Senate (2014–2018)
Template:Sortname	—	Left to join Confederate Army; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1885–87); U.S. representative from Virginia (1898–99, 1900)

Other states and territories

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	2002	Member of the Washington House of Representatives (2025–present)
Template:Sortname	1804	Texas Commissioner to the United States (1835–1836); speaker of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives (1837); secretary of war of the Republic of Texas (1840–1841)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Tennessee Senate (1809–11); U.S. senator from Missouri (1821–51); U.S. representative from Missouri (1853–55)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2008–2010)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to the University of Missouri–Kansas City; member of the Michigan House Representatives (1999–2001); member of the Michigan Senate (2003–2010)
Template:Sortname	1837	Member of the Illinois Senate (1842–48, 1850–56); U.S. representative from Illinois (1856–57)
Template:Sortname	1983	Member of the New York State Assembly (1987–2002); member of the New York Senate (2003–present)
Template:Sortname	2000	Member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2009–2017)
Template:Sortname	1990	Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–2018)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	U.S. representative from Virginia (1793–1801); member of the New York Senate (1806–09)
Template:Sortname	1946	Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1963–68); speaker of the N.H. House of Representatives (1965–68); governor of New Hampshire (1969–73)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1990–present)
Template:Sortname	1846	Member of the California Assembly (1854–56); U.S. representative from California (1857–61); U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (1885–89)
Template:Sortname	1780	Member of the first Kentucky Senate (1792–96)
Template:Sortname	1972	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2005–13)
Template:Sortname	1785	Member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1792, 1794–95); first chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1818–29)
Template:Sortname	1817	Member of the North Carolina House of Commons (1819–23); U.S. representative from North Carolina (1827–29)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to Princeton College; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1824); member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1836); member of the Ohio Senate (1838); U.S. representative from Ohio (1843–45)

State courts

Virginia Supreme Court

The Virginia Supreme Court has been known by other names since its creation. Most recently, the Virginia Supreme Court was known as the Supreme Court of Appeals until 1970. Regardless of name used, this sub-list is limited to members of the highest court of the state. Other state judges can be found in the following sub-list dedicated to Other positions.

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1808	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1818–20, 1841–42); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1842–52)
Template:Sortname	1798	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1834–38)
Template:Sortname	1793	Governor of Virginia (1805–08); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1811–51)
Template:Sortname	1768	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–1807)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1811–?)
Template:Sortname	1763	Member of the Continental Congress (1779); an original justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–1824); chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1809–1824)
Template:Sortname	1928	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Template:Sortname	1980	Chief deputy Virginia attorney general (2002–2003); judge of Virginia Court of Appeals (2003–2011); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (2011–)
Template:Sortname	1752	Member of the Continental Congress (1779); judge of the General Court of Virginia (1779–89); an original justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–1793)
Template:Sortname	1979	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1992–98); member of the Virginia Senate (1998–2006); 46th attorney general of Virginia (2009–10); justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010–present)
Template:Sortname	1777	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1794–1822)
Template:Sortname	1901	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1936–67)
Template:Sortname	1824	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1839–46)
Template:Sortname	1846	Member of Virginia House of Delegates (1853–54); delegate to Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America (1861); representative from Virginia to the Confederate Congress (1862–65); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1870–82)
Template:Sortname	1770	Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (1785–89); chief justice of Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1789–93); U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794–99)
Template:Sortname	1798 / J.D. 1801	Law professor at the College of William and Mary (1801–04); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1824–31); author of the College of William and Mary honor pledge (1842)
Template:Sortname	1772	Lawyer and professor of law at William & Mary; Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals judge (1803–11); U.S. district court judge (D. Va.) (1813–?)

Other states' high courts

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1848	Associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1866–67); governor of Texas (1874–76); U.S. senator from Texas (1877–95)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1878–81)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Associate justice (one of the original) of the Mississippi Supreme Court (1818–25); U.S. senator from Mississippi (1825–26, 1827–32); U.S. district court judge (D. Miss.) (1832–36)
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Cumberland University; associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1886–94); chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1894–1911)
Template:Sortname	1790	Associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1806–23)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	One of three original justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1818–33)
Template:Sortname	1976	Associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (2006–2013)
Template:Sortname	1785	Member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1792, 1794–95); first chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1818–29)
Template:Sortname	1982	Associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (2022–present)

Other positions

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1973	Virginia secretary of administration; former state delegate; former vice mayor of Richmond, Virginia
Template:Sortname	1982	Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals; former attorney general of Virginia
Template:Sortname	1766	Member of Continental Congress (1774–75); served multiple terms in House of Burgesses; colonial rights advocate who publicly opposed England's Stamp Act
Template:Sortname	1861	Attorney general of the restored government of Virginia (1863–1865) and Virginia (1865–1869)
Template:Sortname	1755	Member of Continental Congress (1775–76); signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
Template:Sortname	2004	Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Template:Sortname	2010	Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2024–2026)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Attorney General of New Jersey (2018–2021)
Template:Sortname	1982	Executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party
Template:Sortname	1850	Virginia lawyer; second treasurer of the Confederate States of America
Template:Sortname	1956	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1960–66); member of the Virginia Senate (1966–71); lieutenant governor of Virginia (1971–73)
Template:Sortname	1873	President of the Virginia Bar Association; helped establish what became Old Dominion University
Template:Sortname	M.B.A. 1991	Former Virginia secretary of technology; appointed in 2014 by Governor Terry McAuliffe; the last to serve in the office before it was dissolved under Governor Ralph Northam
Template:Sortname	1944	Mayor of Hampton, Virginia (1963–71, 1974–78)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Attorney general of Virginia (2001–05)
Template:Sortname	1940	Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1962–1974), president of the United States Conference of Mayors (1973–1974)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1860)
Template:Sortname	1787	Member of the Northwest Territory House of Representatives (1799–1800); delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Northwest Territory (1800–01)
Template:Sortname	1979	Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1992–98); member of the Virginia Senate (1998–2006); 46th attorney general of Virginia (2009–10); justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010–present)
Template:Sortname	1981	Chair, Council of Economic Advisors (2009–2010)
Template:Sortname	1977 / J.D. 1983	Circuit court judge in the 25th Circuit of Virginia

Academia

College presidents and chancellors

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1791	Episcopal priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1812–14); rector of Bruton Parish Church
Warren Buck	MSc 1970 / PhD 1976	Physics professor, first chancellor of the University of Washington, Bothell
Template:Sortname	1809	Medical doctor; director of the United States Marine Hospital of Louisville; first to develop Mammoth Cave as a tourist destination
Template:Sortname	1737	Anglican priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1755–60); commissary of the bishop of London; rector of Bruton Parish Church
Template:Sortname	1820	Professor of history, metaphysics, and political economy at the College of William and Mary (1827–36); president of the College of William and Mary (1836–46)
Template:Sortname	1954	President of Smith College (1985–1995)
Template:Sortname	1969	President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (2002–present)
Template:Sortname	1965	President of Texas A&M University (2002–2006)
Template:Sortname	19??	President of Mid-Atlantic Christian University (1986–2006)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Chancellor of the College of William & Mary; president of the Virginia Historical Society
Template:Sortname	1845	President of Richmond College (now University of Richmond) (1866–69)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	President of Radford University (2005–2016)
Peter J. Liacouras	1952	President of Temple University (1981–2000)
Template:Sortname	1771	Episcopal priest, first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; president of the College of William and Mary (1777–1812)
Template:Sortname	1994	Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan (2014–2018); chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis (2019–present)
Template:Sortname	1973	President of Amherst College (2008–present)
Template:Sortname	Ed.S. '91/ Ed.D. '93	President of Fort Hays State University (2017–present)
Template:Sortname	1900	President of the University of Virginia (1931–47)
Template:Sortname	1824	Founder and first president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1861–70, 1878–81) (attended 1819–1824 but did not receive degree and no evidence for graduation, according to MIT Libraries)
Template:Sortname	1949 / LL.D. 1976	Economist, professor, and university administrator; acting president of Harvard University (1984, 1987)
Template:Sortname	1981	President of the University of Wyoming
Template:Sortname	1959	Sociologist and scholar of Appalachia; director of the Appalachian Studies Conference (1979–84); president of Berea College (1984–94)
Template:Sortname	1720	Anglican priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1752–55); educated at the Grammar School at William & Mary; trained for ministry at Queen's College, Oxford
Template:Sortname	1966	Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law (1985–92); president of the College of William and Mary (1992–2005)
Template:Sortname	1961	President of the College of William & Mary (1985–92); appointed by U.S. Supreme Court as special master for Ellis Island dispute; former dean of Cardozo Law School; chairman of Administrative Conference of the United States
Template:Sortname	1981	Art historian; Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Leeds (UK)
Template:Sortname	174?	Anglican priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1761–64)

Professors

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Historical archaeologist and professor of history at Salem State College
Template:Sortname	1975	Structuration and organizational theory, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University
Template:Sortname	1970	Pre-Columbian art historian and professor of Latin American art at Tulane University
Template:Sortname	1969	History professor at Yale University and recipient of the National Book Award
Template:Sortname	1980	Chancellor Professor of Government and assistant chair of the government department at William & Mary
Template:Sortname	1971	Prominent critic of intelligent design theory; professor at University of Chicago; was valedictorian of his graduating class
Template:Sortname	1965	History professor at Mount Holyoke College; author of The New York Times bestseller Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation which received 2001 Pulitzer Prize
Template:Sortname	1987	Military historian specializing in the American Civil War; holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama
Template:Sortname	1983	Financial economist; professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business; research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Professor of Finance at the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary; faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
Template:Sortname	1970	Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Template:Sortname	1979	Associate professor of medicine at Yale University; columnist with The New York Times; physician and writer
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Law professor and notable contract law scholar at Columbia Law School; dean of University of Virginia Law School (1991–2001); fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
Template:Sortname	1993	Stuart Professor of Psychology at Princeton University
Template:Sortname	1994	Professor in computer science at Elon University, studies right-wing political extremism online
Template:Sortname	1980	Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; criminal law expert
Template:Sortname	1962	Professor at Harvard University
Template:Sortname	1798 / J.D. 1801	Law professor at the College of William and Mary (1801–04); justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1824–31); author of the College of William and Mary's honor pledge (1842)
Template:Sortname	1746	America's first professor of law, College of William and Mary (1769–89); member of Continental Congress (1775–76); signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776)

Religion

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska; attended 1915–16, 1920–21, but did not graduate; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary
Template:Sortname	1791	Episcopal priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1812–14); rector of Bruton Parish Church
Template:Sortname	1946	First female president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies
Template:Sortname	1737	Anglican priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1755–60); commissary of the Bishop of London; rector of Bruton Parish Church
Template:Sortname	1930	Episcopal priest; bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary (1933)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Rabbi and leader in American Reform Judaism; ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Template:Sortname	173?	Earliest known Eastern Orthodox Christian in North America, liturgist, and representative of Jamestown in the House of Burgesses
Template:Sortname	1771	Episcopal priest; first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; president of the College of William and Mary (1777–1812)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary (1836)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; former dean of the Episcopal Divinity School; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary (1987)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary (1858)
Template:Sortname	1790	Episcopal priest, first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
Template:Sortname	1720	Anglican priest; president of the College of William & Mary (1752–55); educated at the Grammar School at William & Mary; trained for ministry at Queen's College, Oxford
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; first Episcopal bishop of China and Japan; trained for ministry at the Virginia Theological Seminary
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Episcopal priest; tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware; trained for ministry at Sewanee: The University of the South
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Anglican priest, president of the College of William & Mary (1761–64)

Arts and media

Film

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to Southern Methodist University; actor in films Kinsey and Road to Perdition
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Dropped out after two semesters; actor and singer; son of movie star Jackie Chan
Template:Sortname	1974	Actress in films Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction and the stage production of Sunset Boulevard; nominee for an Oscar (eight times); winner of three Tonys, an Obie, four Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award
Template:Sortname	1980	Storyboard artist of films The Lion King, Jurassic World and X-Men
Template:Sortname	1982	Production designer of Knives Out (Art Directors Guild Award nomination), The Master, Inherent Vice, Art Director on Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, Water for Elephants
Template:Sortname	2001	Actress in films CODA and Finestkind
Template:Sortname	1963	Actor in films The Hunt for Red October and The Silence of the Lambs
Template:Sortname	2004	Director, writer, and producer of American Fiction, Oscar winner, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2024)
Template:Sortname	1932	Hollywood agent, executive assistant and film producer
Template:Sortname	1994	Screenwriter of films Thor and X-Men: First Class

Music

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	2008	Known by his stage name Emancipator, is a producer and disc jockey based in Portland, Oregon
Template:Sortname	1985	Recording artist and producer; led the indie rock bands Arms of Kismet, Wampeters and Waterslide; founder and principal of the record label and media company Wampus Multimedia
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Country music singer, songwriter, and cardiologist
Template:Sortname	1990	Musician and founder of the band Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
Template:Sortname	—	Musician, leader of The Dismemberment Plan; dropped out after three years
Template:Sortname	2006	Folk rock artist signed to Kill Rock Stars with band, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down; produced music for 2011 documentary American Teacher
Template:Sortname	2004	Singer-songwriter
Template:Sortname	2014	Lead singer of indie rock band Car Seat Headrest

Television

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1988	Actor in numerous television shows, including Law & Order, The Tick, Brothers & Sisters, Joan of Arcadia and Grey's Anatomy
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to UCLA after his freshman year; star of Wagon Train, It's a Man's World, and various films; also an historian of Modern Europe and professor emeritus at Mount Holyoke College
Template:Sortname	1999	Multiple Emmy-nominated television personality on NYC Media
Template:Sortname	1978	Television actor, has appeared in Desperate Housewives, The West Wing, and Star Trek: Enterprise
Template:Sortname	1970	Actor, Guiding Light
Template:Sortname	—	Left for position at United States Department of Health and Human Services in 2002 just prior to his senior year; broadcast journalist and publisher; co-founder of The Federalist; married to Meghan McCain
Template:Sortname	1987	Comedian, singer and actor known for his appearances on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Office, as Deacon Claybourne on Nashville, and as Ward Cameron on Netflix's Outer Banks
Template:Sortname	1998	Comedian and comedy writer; writes and performs for Late Night with Seth Meyers; executive producer and head writer on The Amber Ruffin Show
Template:Sortname	1978	Television writer of CBS's Judging Amy and M*A*S*H
Template:Sortname	2005	Broadcast journalist, CBS News
Template:Sortname	1992	Actor, best known for his role as Nails on season two of True Detective
Template:Sortname	1959	Actress; winner of Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards; starred on the television sitcom Alice
Template:Sortname	1990	Creator and writer of Ted Lasso and Scrubs television series
Template:Sortname	1949	Graduated from the Norfolk division of William & Mary (present day Old Dominion University); saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Template:Sortname	1994	Actor, television and movies
Template:Sortname	1991	Comedian; film and television actor
Template:Sortname	1985	Screenwriter, director, and producer best known as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Template:Sortname	1989	television actress; daughter of Colin Powell
Template:Sortname	1983	Voice actor, best known for numerous anime and video games
Template:Sortname	2005	CNN senior legal affairs correspondent
Template:Sortname	2000	Comedian; writer, producer, and co-host on MTV's Nikki & Sara Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after studying abroad there in his third year; Olivier Award-winning actor known for roles in theatrical productions and shows An Inspector Calls and Andor
Template:Sortname	1984	Anchor and writer of Emmy-winning The Daily Show
Template:Sortname	1994	Model and star of A Million Little Things, Dinner for Schmucks, and various films and television shows
Template:Sortname	1978	Combat sport analyst, CBS Sports
Template:Sortname	1998	Emmy Award-winning writer for Last Week with John Oliver; author of several children's books
Template:Sortname	2007	Host of Netflix weekly series The Break with Michelle Wolf; former contributor/writer to The Daily Show; stand-up comedian

Writers

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1992	Children's author, known for The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Template:Sortname	Ph.D. 2012	Author, professor, playwright, and former radio host
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort / Ph.D. 2007	Author of texts on classical education
Template:Sortname	1992	Author and illustrator
Template:Sortname	2009	#1 New York Times bestselling author of children's and young adult novels
Template:Sortname	1974	Writer, author of nine novels, including Father of Frankenstein, which was adapted into Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters
Template:Sortname	1985	Pulitzer Prize-nominated professor and author of nine published books
Template:Sortname	2004	Science journalist
Template:Sortname	1990	Writer, sportswriter and comic book writer; wrote The Face of the River and Jam
Template:Sortname	1898	Regionalist author; favorite of Mark Twain
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Author of account of colonial life leading up the American Revolution, The Diary of Colonel Landon
Template:Sortname	1978	Poet; current poet-in-residence at William & Mary
Template:Sortname	1978	Poet and translator, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award (2014) and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2009)
Template:Sortname	2017	Journalist and podcast host
Template:Sortname	1994	Political Journalist for PBS NewsHour
Template:Sortname	1975 / M.A. 1981	Journalist and author
Template:Sortname	1980	Author of children and YA novels; winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Mockingbird
Template:Sortname	1989	Best-selling author of For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men
Template:Sortname	1994	Opinion writer, talk radio host
Template:Sortname	1996	Author of novels A Paris Apartment (2014) and I'll See You in Paris (2016)
Template:Sortname	1978	Poet, essayist, novelist and critic
Template:Sortname	1982	Screenwriter and television producer who has written for numerous television shows, including The Simpsons and The PJs
Template:Sortname	2001	Author, university professor; writer and producer of two documentary feature films
Template:Sortname	1991	Poet, editor, author and professor at the University of Richmond
Template:Sortname	1978	Author of romantic historical novels
Template:Sortname	1988	Television writer and best-selling novelist; author of A Stolen Tongue, The Dress Lodger, and Witches on the Road Tonight
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort Ph.D. 1999	New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author of historical fiction
Template:Sortname	1984	Investigative reporter at The New York Times
Template:Sortname	1968	Author
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Sportswriter and reporter at Stamford Advocate, Grantland, and ESPN; associated with use of advanced metrics in sports
Template:Sortname	1949	Author of more than 50 novels including detective novels (1950s and 1960s), historical novels, and fictionalized biographies
Template:Sortname	J.D. 2008	Author of More Than Just a Pretty Face (2020) and The Bad Muslim Discount (2021)
Template:Sortname	1987	Children's picture book author and creator of Vampirina
Template:Sortname	2000	Staff writer at The New Yorker and author
Template:Sortname	1996	New York Times bestselling author of Gaining Ground (2013) and Growing Tomorrow (2015)
Template:Sortname	1967	Lawyer; writer; winner of Pulitzer Prize for autobiography Fortunate Son (1991)
Template:Sortname	1947	Author; photographer; historian
Template:Sortname	1976 / J.D. 1980	Writer; wrote War of the Rats, on which the movie Enemy at the Gates is partially based
Template:Sortname	1995	Author of the book Looker; poet
Template:Sortname	1904 / LL.D. 1931	Author; creator of The Virginia Quarterly Review and William & Mary's Alma Mater
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Author of The Golden Age trilogy and other science fiction and fantasy novels
Template:Sortname	1994	Poet, critic, editor, and translator

Other media

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1940	Landscape painter
Template:Sortname	1961	Fashion designer (Perry Ellis International)
Template:Sortname	1987	Audio book narrator
Template:Sortname	1949	Tony Award winner
Template:Sortname	1990	Alternative cartoonist
Template:Sortname	1969	Costume designer; recipient of six Tony Awards
Template:Sortname	1993	Voice actor of several anime and video game characters
Template:Sortname	1994	Comedian; has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, and A Prairie Home Companion
Template:Sortname	1983	Voice actor
Template:Sortname	2013	Writer, director, and actor; creator of the podcast The Bright Sessions
Template:Sortname	1971	National Public Radio personality

Military officers

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sort	1955	First naturalized Asian American naval officer to reach flag rank in the United States military
Template:Sort	1810	Soldier who fought at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811; recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal
Template:Sort	1798	Led the defense of Richmond, Virginia against British forces in the War of 1812; member of the first Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia
Template:Sort	1970	Former director of the Iraq Survey Group as a senior member of the Joint Staff
Template:Sort	1852	Soldier who served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and became president of Southern Fertilizing Company in Richmond after the war
Template:Sort	—	Second cousin of Robert E. Lee and soldier from Virginia who served with the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
Template:Sort	1898	Naval surgeon who served aboard presidential yacht Mayflower under Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and as White House physician for Woodrow Wilson; chairman of Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural committees in 1933 and 1937; and chairman of the American Red Cross
Template:Sort	1972	Commanding general of the Third United States Army; Coalition Forces Land Component Command in the Middle East (CENTCOM)
Template:Sort	1967	Attorney, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and Marines officer that served in Vietnam; son of renowned Marine Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller
Template:Sortname	1812	Attended only 1810–12; secessionist who fired the first shots of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
Template:Sort	1805	Longest serving general in U.S. military history (1814–1861); commanded forces in War of 1812, Black Hawk War and Mexican–American War; general-in-chief of Union Army at start of the American Civil War; author of Anaconda Plan
Template:Sort	1841	Confederate general in the American Civil War
Template:Sort	1809	Subaltern and judge-advocate of General James Winchester's division in the War of 1812; in 1813 he was made a captain of infantry, and was an aide to General William Henry Harrison in the Battle of the Thames

Business and technology

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1996	Co-founder, chairman, CEO and controlling member of Eldridge Industries; he is also the co-owner of Template:English football updater football club Chelsea
Template:Sortname	1982	VP of Public Relations for General Electric; co-founder of Hulu
Template:Sortname	1985	CEO and incoming chairman and president of The Home Depot
Template:Sortname	1945	Noted Wall Street trader; former CEO of Lehman Brothers
Template:Sortname	1993	Executive producer and game director of Bethesda Softworks
Template:Sortname	1968	Business executive, author, political candidate, television commentator and security and terrorism expert; founder, chairman, and CEO of GlobalOptions Inc
Template:Sortname	1959	Founder and CEO of investment firm Legg Mason, Inc.; namesake of William & Mary's Mason School of Business
Template:Sortname	1803	Prominent Virginia farmer and businessman
Template:Sortname	1951	Sports agency pioneer; founder of International Management Group (IMG); author of bestseller What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
Template:Sortname	M.B.A. 1991	Canadian businessman; president and CEO of Empire Company Limited
Template:Sortname	1958	Founder and CEO of United Health Services, Inc.; namesake of Miller Hall, home of the Mason School of Business
Template:Sortname	2004	CEO of the Open Access publisher Hindawi (2015–2021)
C. Michael Petters	1993	President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries
Template:Sortname	1966	Chairman & CEO of Willis Group Holdings, and owner of the Trenton Thunder; namesake of William & Mary's Plumeri Park
Template:Sortname	1977	President and CEO of NVR, Inc.
Template:Sortname	1992	CEO of The J.M. Smucker Company
Template:Sortname	1994	CEO of Disruptor Capital, founder of New Media Strategies
Jeffrey Trammell	1973	Past President of W&M's Board of Visitors, founded Trammell and Company
Template:Sortname	1937	Cubic Corporation director, chairman of the board, president and CEO from 1951 until his death in 2012; namesake of the school's Walter J. Zable Stadium

Sciences

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1927	Botanist known for her research on the flora of the Virginia in the mid-20th century
Template:Sortname	Ph.D. 1992	Research zoologist, curator of fishes, and the vertebrate zoology department chair at the National Museum of Natural History
Template:Sortname	1978	Astronaut, Navy Flight Surgeon and pilot who died during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003
Template:Sortname	1971	Biologist known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design
Template:Sortname	1957	Physician and pioneer in oncology; CEO of Yale University's Comprehensive Cancer Institute
Template:Sortname	1996	Entomologist and evolutionary biologist noted for work on the phylogeny of Adelgidae
Template:Sortname	1958	Food scientist whose research was significant in the dairy industry
Template:Sortname	1973	Environmental science and director of the United States Geological Survey
Template:Sortname	1999	Chemist at the University of Michigan
Template:Sortname	1967 / M.S. 1969 / Ph.D 1972	Physicist; former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Template:Sortname	1992	Professor of biology and dean of natural sciences at Duke University
Template:Sortname	19??	Malacologist
Template:Sortname	1985	Environmental economist; executive director of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network
Template:Sortname	1968	Directs global climate change research at the Electric Power Research Institute
Template:Sortname	1983	Director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; former chief scientist at NASA (2013–2016)
Template:Sortname	2000	Physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and quantum information science and technology
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Experimental physicist; known for his contributions to the field of nondestructive evaluation

Sports

The William & Mary Tribe sports teams have participated at Division I level in the NCAA since the school became a members in official conference competition in 1937, although pre-conference interscholastic competition started in 1893. College alumni have played in every major professional sports league in the United States except for the National Hockey League. To honor players of the program in various sports, the William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1969.

Baseball

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	2004	Relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals (2006) and Cincinnati Reds (2006–2012)
Template:Sortname	1972	Third baseman for Kansas City Royals (1978)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Pitcher for Atlanta Braves (1998)
Template:Sortname	2009	Minor league baseball player
Template:Sortname	2001	Infielder for the Chicago Cubs (2004); Montreal Expos (2004); Washington Nationals (2005–06); Cincinnati Reds (2006); Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2007); Minnesota Twins (2007–2010); Baltimore Orioles (2010–present)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Played a single one-half inning for the Boston Braves (1930)
Template:Sortname	1938	Outfielder for the New York Yankees (1943–46); longtime coach at Old Dominion University
Template:Sortname	1992	Outfielder for MLB's Los Angeles Angels
Template:Sortname	2005	Consensus First Team All-American in 2004; left school after his junior year to pursue a professional career
Template:Sortname	1941	Pitcher for the New York Yankees (1946–53), St. Louis Cardinals (1954–55), and Kansas City Athletics (1955); six-time World Series champion (1947, 1949–1953) and one-time American League strikeouts leader (1951)
Template:Sortname	2003	Relief pitcher and closer for the Baltimore Orioles (2005–07, 2009)
Template:Sortname	2005	Director of player development for the Los Angeles Dodgers; former professional baseball player
Template:Sortname	1926	Left fielder for New York Giants (1926)

Basketball

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1981	Assistant director of USA women's basketball (1985–96); special advisor to the WNBA (1996–2000)
Template:Sortname	1953	Basketball player for the College of William and Mary (1951–53) who set the NCAA all-time single-game record for rebounds (51)
Template:Sortname	1993	British-American professional player in the British Basketball League during the 1990s and 2000s
Template:Sortname	1985	Division I basketball head coach; one of Sports IllustratedTemplate:'s "50 Greatest Vermont Sports Figures"
Template:Sortname	1961	All-American basketball player and NBA draft selection for the Chicago Packers
Template:Sortname	2018	American-Israeli basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
Template:Sortname	2004	Professional basketball player in France for Entente Orleans 45
Template:Sortname	1995	Head coach of the Rhode Island Rams men's basketball team
Template:Sortname	1948	Former NBA basketball player for the Rochester Royals (1948–50) and Boston Celtics (1950–51)
Template:Sortname	1950	All-American basketball player in 1950
Template:Sortname	2004	Professional basketball player in the Czech Republic's National Basketball League
Template:Sortname	1971	William & Mary's second-ever Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year (1971)
Template:Sortname	19??	Head basketball coach at the University of Richmond and William & Mary
Template:Sortname	2008	Professional Lithuanian player in the Lithuanian Basketball League
Template:Sortname	2020	Lou Henson Award winner, CAA Player of the Year, and NBA player (Atlanta Hawks, Minnesota Timberwolves)
Template:Sortname	1977	Former basketball stand-out who was once named Sports IllustratedTemplate:'s National Player of the Week
Template:Sortname	2012	Former professional basketball player in Australia, the NBA D-League, Spain, and Latvia; as of 2019–20 is a college coach
Template:Sortname	2001	Former professional basketball player in Spain's Liga ACB
Template:Sortname	2015	First CAA Men's Basketball Player of the Year in school history; drafted 45th overall in the 2015 NBA draft
Template:Sortname	1983	Basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs (1983–84)
Template:Sortname	2020	Belgian basketball player for Bnei Herzliya Basket
Template:Sortname	1962	Most decorated head men's basketball coach in Bucknell University history

Football

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1943	Head coach for South Carolina Gamecocks (1961–65), NFL assistant coach (1952, 1970–72, 1977–78, 1982–2004)
Template:Sortname	1954	Full back for the Detroit Lions (1954, 1956), Pittsburgh Steelers (1957)
Template:Sortname	2013	Head coach of the Buffalo Bills (2026–present)
Template:Sortname	1942	End for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1942)
Template:Sortname	2010	Defensive back for Indianapolis Colts (2012), New York Giants (2013), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2014–present)
Template:Sortname	1972	Running back for New York Jets (1973)
Template:Sortname	2004	Former professional quarterback for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League (AFL)
Template:Sortname	1982	Defensive end for Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1982–90)
Template:Sortname	1926	Halfback for Dayton Triangles (1928)
Template:Sortname	1989	Kicker for Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1990–91), Buffalo Bills (1992–2000), San Diego Chargers (2001–03), New York Giants (2004)
Template:Sortname	1986	Running back for Kansas City Chiefs (1987); former record-holding Canadian Football League player; former head coach and now vice-chair of the Toronto Argonauts
Template:Sortname	1950	Fullback for the Green Bay Packers (1950–51), Washington Redskins (1952–53); inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (1990)
Template:Sortname	1948	Guard for Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), Chicago Hornets (1949), New York Yanks (1950–51)
Template:Sortname	2009	Cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars (2009–2012), San Diego Chargers (2013), Baltimore Ravens (2014)
Template:Sortname	1950	Eight-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle and guard for the Detroit Lions (1950–59); inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Template:Sortname	1955	Defensive tackle for Boston Patriots (1960)
Template:Sortname	1968	Quarterback for the Buffalo Bills (1968–70)
Template:Sortname	1931	Two-time NFL Championship with the Philadelphia Eagles (1948–49)
Template:Sortname	1975	Linebackers coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2006–)
Template:Sortname	1976	Current football running backs coach for the New England Patriots
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Florida State University; defensive end for Baltimore Colts (1956)
Template:Sortname	1945	Running back for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948)
Template:Sortname	1992	Running back for the Washington Redskins (1992), Chicago Bears (1993–96), Minnesota Vikings (1997)
Template:Sortname	2011	Running back for the Jacksonville Jaquars (2012–2013), Houston Texans (2013–)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Guard for Akron Pros (1923), Akron Indians (1926)
Template:Sortname	1987	Guard for Denver Broncos (1987)
Template:Sortname	1964	Quarterback for San Diego Chargers (1966); head coach of the Atlanta Falcons (1983–86), San Diego Chargers (1989–91)
Template:Sortname	1950	Guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1950–54)
Template:Sortname	1943	Fullback for the New York Yankees (1946–49), New York Yanks (1951); head coach of the Buffalo Bills
Template:Sortname	1986	Safety for the Buffalo Bills (1986–93); appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls (1990–93)
Template:Sortname	1973	Wide receiver for the New York Jets (1973–77)
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tackle for the Chicago Bears (1953–55)
Template:Sortname	1970	William & Mary Tribe football's winningest coach of all time; head coach 1980–2018
Template:Sortname	2000	Tight end and long snapper for the Arizona Cardinals
Template:Sortname	2010	Defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys (2010–2012) and the San Diego Chargers (2013–2016); athletic director for St. Mark's School of Texas
Template:Sortname	1956	Center for the Detroit Lions (1956)
Template:Sortname	1927	Halfback for the Dayton Triangles (1928)
Template:Sortname	1998	Defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers (2011–2016); head coach of the Buffalo Bills (2017–2025)
Template:Sortname	1948	Running back for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948)
Template:Sortname	1947	Linebacker for the Chicago Cardinals (1952)
Template:Sortname	1953	Halfback for the Baltimore Colts (1953)
Template:Sortname	2019	Defensive tackle for the New England Patriots (2019)
Template:Sortname	2006	Professional football player for the champion Hamburg Sea Devils of NFL Europa
Template:Sortname	2004	Professional American, Canadian and arena football linebacker
Template:Sortname	1958 Template:Sort	NFL coach (Houston Oilers, Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins)
Template:Sortname	1986	Running back for San Diego Chargers (1987)
Template:Sortname	1950	Head coach of Virginia Military Institute's football team (1966–70)
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Indiana University; running back for New York Yankees (1947)
Template:Sortname	1943	First head coach of the American Football League's Buffalo Bills
Template:Sortname	1948	Guard for L.A. Dons (1948–49), Chicago Cardinals (1950–51), Washington Redskins (1952–53)
Template:Sortname	1974	Minnesota Vikings quarterbacks coach
Template:Sortname	1979	Lineman for the Denver Broncos (1979–88); current defensive assistant coach of the Denver Broncos
Template:Sortname	1948	Tackle for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1948); assistant coach, head coach, general manager and team president for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Template:Sortname	1974	Football coach at the University of Colorado
Template:Sortname	1997	Defensive back for the Green Bay Packers (1997–2004), Minnesota Vikings (2005, 2007–08), New Orleans Saints (2009)
Template:Sortname	1980	Linebacker for Miami Dolphins (1980–82)
Template:Sortname	1964	Linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1964)
Template:Sortname	1955	Safety for the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings; two-time Super Bowl champion as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders (1981, 1984)
Template:Sortname	2004	Wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams (2005)
Template:Sortname	1948	Linebacker/center for Cleveland Browns (1949–53)
Template:Sortname	1995	Former head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers; second youngest head coach in NFL history to win a Super Bowl
Template:Sortname	2010	2010 NFL Draft selection by the New York Giants
Template:Sortname	1942	Tight end for the AAFC's Buffalo Bisons (1946)
Template:Sortname	1998	Former linebacker for the Green Bay Packers (1998–2002)
Template:Sortname	—	Transferred to Auburn University; center for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1946–48)
Template:Sortname	2012	Cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys (2013), Pittsburgh Steelers (2014), Tennessee Titans (2015), and Cincinnati Bengals (2019)
Template:Sortname	1992	Football coach, Indianapolis Colts

Soccer

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1969	One of the all-time winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I men's soccer history
Template:Sortname	1998	Major League Soccer defender, Houston Dynamo
Template:Sortname	2000	Norwegian Premier League soccer goalkeeper, Aalesunds FK; two-time NCAA First Team All-American (1998 and 1999)
Template:Sortname	1993	Former Major League Soccer goalkeeper, most recently of the Miami Fusion F.C.
Template:Sortname	1988	Head coach of the United States women's national soccer team (2014–2019), winning manager of the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cups
Template:Sortname	1996	Former professional soccer player, most recently of the Long Island Rough Riders in the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League
Template:Sortname	2009	Major League Soccer striker, San Jose Earthquakes
Template:Sortname	1997	Major League Soccer defender for New York Red Bulls
Template:Sortname	1982	Former professional soccer player with Team America of the North American Soccer League
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Transferred to the University of San Francisco; professional soccer player who is currently with Bryne FK in Norway
Template:Sortname	1993	Former professional soccer player, most recently of the Richmond Kickers in the United Soccer Leagues Second Division

Other sports

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	2014	Track and field world championship level competitor
Template:Sortname	—	Canadian Olympic wrestler, Maccabiah champion, Commonwealth champion; transferred after W&M dropped their wrestling program in 1991
Template:Sortname	1991	Former NASCAR driver; president of Joe Gibbs Racing; owner of #11 FedEx Toyota Camry
Template:Sortname	1964	One of the most successful high school track and field and cross country running coaches in United States high school history
Template:Sortname	1996	Track and field athlete; 1996 Olympian in run and American collegiate record holder in the same event (3 minutes 35 seconds)
Template:Sortname	1949	Tennis player, spy, and businessman
Template:Sortname	2008	Professional tennis player
Template:Sortname	2006	Paralympian, bestselling author and motivational speaker
Template:Sortname	2007	Long jumper whose college career was cut short due to injury; host of Netflix weekly series The Break with Michelle Wolf; former contributor/writer to The Daily Show; stand-up comedian

Miscellaneous

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	1964	Pioneer in gun violence prevention; wife of Jim Brady, press secretary to President Ronald Reagan
Template:Sortname	1932	25th president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Template:Sortname	1994	Political consultant to the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016
Template:Sortname	1950	Political cartoonist for the Louisville Courier Journal (1958–97)
Template:Sortname	1773	Younger brother of Thomas Jefferson
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Archaeologist specializing in Virginia's colonial period
Template:Sortname	1808	Biographer and historian to Major General Light Horse Harry and Matilda Lee
Template:Sortname	1778	Diplomat for King Stanisław August Poniatowski of Poland
Template:Sortname	—	Helped to popularize the honorific "Ms."; civil rights activist with CORE and SNCC; expelled by W&M in part for writing anti-segregationist editorials for the student newspaper
Template:Sortname	1992	Lawyer known for representing Lloyd's of London in the dispute over the extent that its insurance covered the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center
Template:Sortname	2006	Named one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet by Time in June 2017; has made over 6 million English Wikipedia edits, more than any other single human editor
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Pioneer in social welfare reform; current Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Chef and culinary historian; focuses on the lives of Black cooks, with emphasis on the early 1800s and the Colonial period
Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Chinese American advocate, historian, and founding director of the Chinese American Museum in Washington, D.C.

Fictional people

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Template:Sortname	Not specified	Detective in the 2007 film Mr. Brooks
Template:Sort	Template:Sort	Doctor on the television series Scrubs; college roommate of Christopher Turk
Template:Sortname	Not specified	Orthodontist on the television series The Bob Newhart Show
Template:Sortname	Not specified	Lead character in the 2008 film Nim's Island
Template:Sortname	Not specified	Protagonist of Rita Mae Brown's 2001 novel Alma Mater
Template:Sortname	1990s	Doctor on the television series Scrubs; college roommate of John Dorian

External links

• William & Mary Digital Archive: A provisional list of alumni, grammar school students, members of the faculty, and members of the Board of Visitors, 1693–1888
• William & Mary Digital Archive: Catalogue of the Alumni and Alumnae For the Years 1866–1932