List of Furman University people
The list of Furman University people includes alumni of Furman University.
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Science
- Brad Cox - computer scientist
- Hans Einstein - the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever
- Thomas T. Goldsmith - Physicist who helped pioneer the invention of Color Television, and Inventor of the first video game.
- Albert Ernest Radford - Botanist, mainly known for the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, the definitive flora for North Carolina and South Carolina.
- Charles Townes - Nobel Prize in Physics winner, inventor of the maser, laid theoretical groundwork for invention of laser [1]
- John B. Watson - American Psychologist, founder of Behaviorism
Arts and theatre
- John Bloomfield - Pianist
- Jay Bocook - Composer and Arranger - Work Featured at 1984 Olympic Games
- Ben Browder - Three-time Saturn Awards winner for Best Actor on Television on Farscape
- Richard B. Cass - pianist/teacher
- Nat Chandler - Broadway and opera singer, actor
- Jim David - comedian on Comedy Central Presents, actor, writer
- Amy Grant - guitarist and Christian musician
- Keith Lockhart - Current conductor of the Boston Pops
- Chris Rickwood - Composer, Game Audio Network Guild award winner
- Bear Rinehart - Lead vocalist of Needtobreathe, a six time GMA Dove Award winning modern rock band.
- Elizabeth Bishop - mezzo soprano with the Metropolitan Opera New York, New York[2]
Academics, writers, journalist, literature, and publishers
- Maurice Bloomfield - Austrian-born U.S. philologist and Sanskrit scholar
- Orville Vernon Burton - Renowned Southern Historian and author of Age of Lincoln
- Betsy Byars - children's author, winner of the Newbery Medal, a National Book Award, an Edgar Award and the Regina Medal
- Raven I. McDavid, Jr., linguist, dialectologist
- George Singleton – Novelist
Business
- David C. Garrett, Jr. - Former CEO of Delta Air Lines
- Sanjay Kumar - Former CEO of Computer Associates, sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a massive accounting fraud
- Herman Lay - Founder of the Lay's Corporation, later creating the largest-selling snack food company in the US, the Frito-Lay corporation
Politics and Law
- Andrew L. Abrams - Dean of Charleston School of Law
- Maurice G. Burnside - United States Representative from West Virginia
- Judy Clarke - Attorney who defended convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, Susan Smith, 1996 Summer Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, and Jared Lee Loughner
- Richard Cullen - Former Attorney General of Virginia and high profile lawyer
- Tom Davis - South Carolina State Senator and Chief of Staff to Governor Mark Sanford.
- William Dimitrouleas (1973) - United States District Judge
- Joseph H. Earle - member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1878 to 1882, a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1882 to 1886, South Carolina attorney general from 1886 to 1890 and a United States Senator from South Carolina in 1897
- Wilton E. Hall - newspaper publisher and United States Senator from South Carolina from 1944 to 1945
- Clement Haynsworth - Former United States judge and an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court
- Baron Hill - Indiana congressman
- John Michael McConnell - Served as Director of the National Security Agency and Director of National Intelligence
- Libby Mitchell - Maine politician
- Roger C. Peace - United States Senator from South Carolina
- William H. Perry - United States Representative from South Carolina
- Richard Riley - Former Governor of South Carolina and U.S. Secretary of Education under the Clinton administration
- Thomas A. Roe, conservative philanthropist, founder of the South Carolina Policy Council.
- Madeline Rogero - First female mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee
- Mark Sanford - Former Governor of South Carolina
- John Calhoun Sheppard - The 82nd Governor of South Carolina
- Cecil Staton - Politician, businessman, member of the Georgia Senate
- Alexander Stubb - Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of Finland
- Nick Theodore - Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995
- Druanne White - Trial lawyer in South Carolina
- Rob Woodall - United States Representative from Georgia
Religion
- Kirkman Finlay - First bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina.
- Issachar Jacox Roberts - Baptist missionary in China
- Ligon Duncan- Senior Minister- First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS (PCA), Moderator of the PCA General Assembly (2004), the youngest ever elected, and president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
Athletes
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Soccer
- Clint Dempsey - Professional soccer player for English team Tottenham Hotspur of the Premier League, 2004 MLS Rookie of the Year and member of the United States men's national soccer team, only US player to score a goal in the 2006 World Cup, scored first American goal in 2010 World Cup in South Africa in 1-1 match versus England, first American player to record a hat-trick in the Premier League
- Ricardo Clark - Professional soccer player for Eintracht Frankfurt, 2003 MLS Rookie of the Year runner-up, member of the United States men's national soccer team
- Jonathan Leathers - Professional soccer player for the MLS Vancouver Whitecaps
- John Barry Nusum - Professional soccer player for the Virginia Beach Mariners and Philadelphia Kixx
- Shea Salinas- Professional soccer player for the MLS San Jose Earthquakes
- Sergei Raad - Professional soccer player for the MLS Kansas City Wizards
Football
- Brian Bratton - NFL player, rookie free agent for the Atlanta Falcons in 2005, formerly a receiver for Baltimore Ravens assigned to the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe.
- Luther Broughton - Former NFL tight end
- Jerome Felton - NFL player, 5th round draft pick by the Detroit Lions in 2008 NFL Draft, Furman fullback; Currently plays for Minnesota Vikings
- Louis Ivory - College football running back, won the 2000 Walter Payton Award
- Stanford Jennings - Former NFL player for the Cincinnati Bengals, scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XXIII; current New Balance sales executive
- David Kelly - Assistant Head Coach/Wide Receivers Coach at UCF
- Ingle Martin - NFL player, QB for Kansas City Chiefs
- Orlando Ruff - NFL player for Cleveland Browns
- David Whitehurst - Former quarterback for the Green Bay Packers
- Sam Wyche - Former NFL quarterback and head coach; led Cincinnati Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII
Basketball
- Beth Couture - Head coach of the Butler Bulldogs women's basketball team
- Darrell Floyd - Two-time NCAA Consensus All-American basketball player
- Frank Selvy - Former NBA All-Star; holds current NCAA Division I record for the most points scored (100) in a single basketball game
- Derek Waugh - Head men's basketball coach at Stetson University
Golf
- Beth Daniel - LPGA Tour, World Golf Hall of Fame, 32 career victories
- Brad Faxon - eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, played on two Ryder Cup teams
- Bruce Fleisher - won the U.S. Amateur in 1968, professional golfer on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour
- Betsy King - LPGA Tour, World Golf Hall of Fame, 34 career victories
- Dottie Pepper - Former LPGA Tour champion; current NBC and Golf Channel commentator
- Sherri Turner - Professional golfer, won the 1988 LPGA Championship
Other Sports
- Consequences Creed (Austin Watson) - Professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment
- Angel Martino - Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming
- Tom Mastny - MLB pitcher, former player for Cleveland Indians, currently pitching for AAA New Orleans Zephyrs of the Miami Marlins farm system
- David Segal - Track athlete, Bronze medalist in 1960 Summer Olympics
References
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