- Ret. Gen. Earl E.
Anderson - Marine Corp General
- Allen Appel - writer
- Phillip D. Beall -
WWII & Korean War soldier & winner of a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, and two Bronze Stars
- Terry Bowden - ABC
Television Sports Analyst
- Tommy Bowden - Head Coach
at Clemson University
- Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke - Shakespeare scholar and professor at Yale, Cornell
& the University of London.
- Marc Bulger - St. Louis Rams Quarterback
- Gale Catlett - winningest
coach in WVU basketball history
- John Chambers - President and CEO of CISCO Systems
- Jay Chattaway - a Star
Trek music score writer
- Stephen Coonts - New
York Times bestselling author
- William
Harrison Courtney - special assistant to President Clinton
- Brig. Gen. Frank Kendall Everest, Jr - test pilot and pioneer of rocket aircraft
- Gen. Robert Fogelsong
- US Air Force HQ vice chief of staff
- Bucky Guth - Minnesota Twins player
- Kathleen M. Hawk -
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Jeff Hostetler - Washington Redskins & New York Giants
Quarterback
- Sen. Harley M.
Kilgore - chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization during World War II
- Fuzzy Knight - writer of
the WVU Fight Song and Country Western Actor
- Don Knotts - television and movie actor
- Blanche Lazzell -
artist
- William Leonhart -
former ambassador to Tanzania and Yugoslavia
- Jon McBride - astronaut
- Herb Morrison - announcer
for Chicago station WLS who described the Hindenburg German airship bursting into flames.
- Mike Vanderjagt - Indianapolis Colts placekicker
- Jerome Alan "Jerry" West - WVU & NBA basketball player
WVU students staged a riot against the National Guard in the spring
of 1970, shortly after the shootings at Kent
State.