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This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni (graduating and non-graduating) of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Unless otherwise noted, attendees listed graduated with a bachelor's degree. Names with an asterisk (*) graduated from Peabody College prior to its merger with Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War.
K.C. Potter (J.D. 1964), academic administrator and LGBT rights activist. Maritza Sáenz Ryan (J.D. 1988), head of the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy and United States Army colonel. Samuel Cole Williams (LL.B 1884), first dean of the Lamar School of Law (also known as Emory University School of Law ), Chancellor of ...
Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. James Bond, did not graduate; namesake for Ian Fleming 's fictional spy. Marshall Latham Bond, owner of sled dog inspiration of Jack London 's The Call of the Wild. Daniel Baugh Brewster, U.S. senator from Maryland.
Fugitives (poets) The Fugitives also known as The Fugitive Poets, is the name given to a group of poets and literary scholars at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who published a literary magazine from 1922 to 1925 called The Fugitive. [1] : 13 The group, primarily driven by Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson ...
In 1970 she received a surprise invitation from Athletic Director Jess Neely to represent Vanderbilt at the National Intercollegiate in Athens, Ga., where she placed third. (She was a one-person team) Named All-American by Women's Golf magazine. Vandy Athletics Hall of Fame Jon Curran: 2008 Luke List: 2007 Brandt Snedeker: 2003
The following is a partial list of notable Brown University alumni, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni of Brown University and Pembroke College , Brown's former women's college. "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated.
Vanderbilt is ranked No. 18 among national universities, and its business school, the Owen School of Management, is No. 27 in the nation in a three-way tie with the University of Texas-Dallas and ...