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Unless otherwise noted, the following people graduated with baccalaureate degrees. Names with an asterisk (*) graduated from
Peabody College prior to its merger with Vanderbilt. Art and Humanities
- Donald Davidson, poet
- Randall Jarrell, poet, critic, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress
- Delbert Mann, Oscar-winning
director
- Merrill Moore, poet
- John Crowe Ransom, poet, essayist, and social
commentator
- Allen Tate, poet, critic, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library
of Congress
- Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer prize winner, first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
- James Patterson, novelist, wrote Along Came A Spider and Kiss the
Girls, which were adapted into successful Hollywood films
- Adam Turk, a candidate for the
Philosophy Graduate Program
Business and Economics
- William Douglas Parker, Jr. (MBA), Chairman,
President, and CEO of America West Airlines
- Charlie Soong, missionary, businessman, father of the Soong sisters
- Muhammad Yunus (PhD), pioneer of microcredit
Entertainment and Fashion
- Amy Grant, Contemporary Christian music artist
- Bettie Page*, model
- Dinah Shore, singer, actress, and television host
- Molly Sims, supermodel [attended two years but dropped out to pursue
modeling]
Government, Politics, and Activism
- Lamar Alexander, US
Senator from Tennessee, former Governor of Tennessee, presidential candidate in
1996 and 2000
- Frank G. Clement, former Governor of Tennessee
- Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and presidential candidate [attended Law and
Divinity Schools but did not complete his degree at either]
- Tipper Gore*, wife of Al Gore, activist
- James Lawson, Civil
Rights pioneer
- Mickey Kantor, United States Trade Representative and Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration
- Ric Keller, US
Representative from Florida
- John Kennedy, Louisiana State Treasurer and Democratic Candidate for US
Senate in 2004
- Harlan Mathews, former US Senator from Tennessee
- Roy Neel, Campaign Manager for
Howard Dean, Deputy Chief of Staff for former President Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff for Al Gore
- James Sasser (BA, JD), former US Senator from Tennessee and US Ambassador to China
- Fred Dalton Thompson (JD), former US Senator from Tennessee,
actor
Journalism
- Roy Blount Jr., humorist, sportswriter, and author
- David Brinkley, broadcast journalist
- Terry Eastland, publisher
of The Weekly Standard
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