List of Florida State University people

This list of Florida State University people includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida State University (FSU). Florida State alumni are generally known as Seminoles. Florida State University is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university in Tallahassee, Florida. Since its founding in 1851, Florida State has graduated 170 classes of students and today has approximately 400,000 alumni.^[1]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Lawrence G. Abele	Former provost of Florida State University	^[37]
Debra D. Austin	Former chancellor of the State University System of Florida and former Provost of FAMU	^[38]
Gordon C. Bond	Former dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University	^[39]
Todd Britsch	Former vice president at Brigham Young University, and currently emeritus professor of humanities	^[40]
Jered Carr	Current director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs	^[41]
Thomas A. Desjardin	Current commissioner of Education for the State of Maine
Steve Edwards	Former deputy provost of Florida State University	^[42]
Marc H. Ellis	Current director of Jewish Studies at Baylor University	^[43]
Leonard Erickson	Current deputy director of the Indiana University Cancer Center	^[44]
Wayne Flynt	Writer, historian, and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University.	^[45]
Dwight Gustafson	Former dean of fine arts at Bob Jones University	^[46]
Tameka Bradley Hobbs	Associate provost of Florida Memorial University and founding director of the FMU Social Justice Institute think tank and research center	^[47]
Patrick C. Kennell	Current director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University	^[48]
Hilal Khashan	Current administrator at the American University of Beirut	^[49]
Aquila Berlas Kiani	Former president of the Pakistan Federation of University Women	^{[citation needed]}
Stephen MacNamara	Current vice president at Florida State University	^[50]
Robert Millet	Current emeritus dean of religious education at Brigham Young University	^[51]
William L. Proctor	Former athletic director for Florida State University	^[52]
James C. Renick	Current vice president for the American Council on Education	^[53]
Xavier Serra	Founder and director of the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University	^[54]
Betty Siegel	Former president of the University System of Georgia	^[55]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Masood Ashraf Raja	Associate professor of postcolonial literature and theory at the University of North Texas. He is also the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, an open access journal that he founded in 2009.	^[56]^[57]^[58]^[59]^[60]
Virginia Spencer Carr	Biographer, professor at Columbia State University and Georgia State University.
Ricardo Dominguez	Artist, activist, and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego. He has been the subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he founded.
Skip Horack	Writer and professor. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an assistant professor at Florida State University.
Fiona Kelleghan	Science fiction scholar and critic. Associate professor at the University of Miami.
Jesse Lee Kercheval	Academic, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater.
Margaret Keyes	American academic and heritage preserver. She was a professor of Home Economics at the University of Iowa and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of heritage conservation, best known for her work to preserve the Iowa Old Capitol Building.	^[61]
Leonard Skinner	American high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and businessman. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
David Ward-Steinman	Composer and music professor. Became Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at San Diego State University and was a professor at Indiana University.	^[62]^[63]
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch	Lawyer, elected member of the American Law Institute, currently the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia, and from 2017 to 2018, the Charles Hughes Kirbo Chair of Law at the same university.

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Brent A. Barlow	Former professor at Brigham Young University and author	^[64]
Eric J. Barron	Former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and former dean of the College of Geosciences at the University of Texas-Austin	^[65]
Justin Brown	Professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington	^{[citation needed]}
Antonio Busalacchi Jr.	Current chairman of World Climate Research Programme and a committee for the National Academy of Sciences, professor at the University of Maryland	^[66]^[67]
Suzy Covey	Pioneer in XML encoding, and librarian emerita at the George A. Smathers Libraries	^{[citation needed]}
Joseph W. Cullen	Former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C.	^[68]
Sylvia Earle	Former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	^[69]
Steve Edwards	Physicist	^[70]
Mostafa El-Sayed	Current Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Sciences	^[71]
Marc H. Ellis	Theologian and philosopher	^[72]
Leonard Erickson	Deputy Director of the Indiana University Cancer Center, and professor at IUPUI	^{[citation needed]}
Jaime Escalante	Former Bolivian educator	^{[citation needed]}
A. Wilson Greene	Civil War historian and author; former executive director of Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier	^[73]
Carolyn S. Griner	Former director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	^[74]
Steven Hebert	Nephrologist	^[75]
Robert A. Holton	Scientist who created Taxol, current professor at Florida State University	^[76]
Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh	Food scientist and fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists	^[77]
Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz	Experimental physicist, early pioneer in developing Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program	^[78]
Dan Jones	Professor of English studies at University of Central Florida	^[79]
Jesse Lee Kercheval	Academic and writer, and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison	^[80]
Margaret Keyes	Scholar in heritage conservation	^[81]
Hilal Khashan	Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut	^[82]
Jim Kuypers	Communications expert, professor at Virginia Tech	^[83]
William Leap	Anthropologist and professor at American University	^[84]
Deborah Mash	Professor of neurology, and director of the Brain Endowment Bank at the University of Miami	^[85]
Warren P. Mason	Electrical engineer and physicist, founder of the field of distributed-element circuits	^[86]
Charles T. Meide	Underwater and maritime archaeologist	^{[citation needed]}
Jason Moore	Translational bioinformatics scientist and human geneticist	^[87]
Anthony Nicholls	English physicist	^[88]
Harold O'Neil	Experimental psychologist, and currently a professor at the University of Southern California	^[89]
Orrin H. Pilkey	Geologist, and Professor Emeritus at Duke University	^[90]
Alan R. Price	Former associate director for investigative oversight for the National Institute of Health	^[91]
Thomas S. Ray	Ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life	^{[citation needed]}
Dušan Repovš	Slovenian mathematician, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia for Science	^[92]
Matthew Barnett Robinson	Criminologist	^[93]
Landon T. Ross	Environmental biologist	^[94]
Anne Rudloe	Marine biologist, writer, environmentalist, cofounder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award Winner	^[95]^[96]
James A. Shymansky	Science educator	^[97]
Dewey Smith	Professional aquanaut and underwater diver	^[98]
Nyayapathi Swamy	Mathematical physicist	^[99]

Alumni	Notability	Reference
Winston Scott	Former NASA astronaut	^[101]
Norman Thagard	Former NASA astronaut and currently a tenured professor of engineering at Florida State University	^[102]

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