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The list of University of South Carolina people includes former students, professors, administrators and those who hold degrees from the University of South Carolina.

Alumni

Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Name	Class year	Notes
Bernard Addison	1985	actor
Mike Colter	1998	actor
William Combs	1982	tenor for Lyric Opera of Chicago
Rita Cosby	1989	host of MSNBC's Rita Cosby Live, three-time Emmy Award winner
Harry Dent	1975	economist and writer
Ainsley Earhardt-McKinney	1999	Fox News Weekend Anchor
Charles Frazier	1986	author of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain
Lilian Garcia	1988	singer and WWE ring announcer
Leeza Gibbons	1978	actress and former host of Entertainment Tonight, three-time Emmy winner
Lauren Michelle Hill	–	actress and Feburary 2001 Playboy Playmate of the Month
Jim Harrison	1958	painter of Americana, including Coca-Cola memorabilia
Cliff Hollingsworth	1977	screenwriter for "Cinderella Man."
Jim Hoagland	1961	columnist and former chief foreign correspondent of The Washington Post, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Hootie and the Blowfish	–	all four band members attended the University, drummer Jim Sonefeld played on the USC soccer team
Jesse Hughes	–	American musician (Eagles of Death Metal)
Jasper Johns	–	internationally-recognized painter (did not graduate)
Lanier Laney	1977	television writer and producer
Larry Lebby	1973	internationally-recognized portrait painter
Tyron McFarlan	1996	ringmaster for Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Gary Parsons	1978	founder XM Satellite Radio and former executive vice president of MCI
Brenda Pressley	1978	actress
Jack Roper	–	meteorologist WSPA-TV, Spartanburg, SC
Blue Sky	1964	internationally-recognized painter and sculptor responsible for the mural Tunnelvision
W. Thomas Smith, Jr.	1982	author and columnist
Patrick Tyler	1974	chief foreign correspondent for The New York Times
Van Earl Wright	1984	anchor for Fox Sports
Rin-Jong Yang	1986	music director of the Korean Sinfonietta, internationally renowned conductor of Sungshin Women's University Orchestras

Athletics

Name	Class year	Notes
Dick Sheridan	1964	former NC State and Furman Head Football Coach
Charlie Weis	1989	head football coach for the University of Notre Dame, former NFL assistant coach who won three Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots and one with the New York Giants

Baseball

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Jon Coutlangus

Name	Letter years	Notes
Kent Anderson	1982 – 1984	former Major League Baseball infielder
Billy Buckner	2004	right handed pitcher Kansas City Royals
Brian Buscher	2002 – 2003	infielder, Minnesota Twins
Tripp Cromer	1987 – 1989	former Major League Baseball infielder
Jon Coutlangus	2002 – 2003	former Major League Baseball infielder
Adam Everett	1997 – 1988	shortstop for the Houston Astros and member of gold medal-winning 2000 U.S. Olympic baseball team
Lee Gronkiewicz	1999 – 2001	pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
Ed Lynch	1974 – 1977	former major league baseball pitcher (Mets, Cubs) general manager (Cubs)
Marcus McBeth	1999 – 2001	former Major League Baseball infielder
Kevin Melillo	2002 – 2004	infielder for the Oakland Athletics
Drew Meyer	2000 – 2002	shortstop for the Texas Rangers
Steve Pearce	2004 – 2005	First Baseman, Pittsburgh Pirates
Brian Roberts	1999	infielder for the Baltimore Orioles
Mookie Wilson	1977	former baseball star for the New York Mets

Men's Basketball

Name	Letter years	Notes
Renaldo Balkman	2004 – 2006	NBA player
Bobby Cremins	1968 – 1970	former Georgia Tech and current College of Charleston head basketball coach
Mike Dunleavy, Sr.	1973 – 1976	head coach in the NBA, former NBA player
Alex English	1973 – 1976	NBA Hall of Famer (highest scorer in the 1980s and seventh all-time scorer with 25,343 points)
Kevin Joyce	1971 – 1973	first-round NBA draft pick in 1973, but played three seasons in the American Basketball Association, member of silver medal-winning 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team
Tarence Kinsey	2003 – 2006	NBA player
BJ McKie	1996 – 1999	3-time All-SEC basketball player; the school's all-time leading scorer
Brian Winters	1972 – 1974	coach of WNBA's Indiana Fever, first-round NBA draft pick in 1974, former head coach of Vancouver Grizzlies and Golden State Warriors

Football

Name	Letter years	Notes
John Abraham	1996 – 1999	NFL player
Tom Addison	1955 – 1957	American Football League All-Star (Boston Patriots), founder of American Football League Players Association
Fred Bennett	2003 – 2006	NFL player
Sheldon Brown	1998 – 2001	NFL player
Mark Dantonio	1976 – 1978	current Michigan State University Head Football Coach
Brad Edwards	1984 – 1987	former NFL player and USC Associate Athletic Director
Kalimba Edwards	1998 – 2001	NFL player
Todd Ellis	1986 – 1989	Current radio Play-by-play announcer for Gamecock football
Harold Green	1986 – 1989	NFL player
Alex Hawkins	1956 – 1958	former NFL player, ACC Player of the Year in 1958
Corey Jenkins	2001 – 2002	NFL player
Marcus McBeth	1999	pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
Langston Moore	1999 – 2002	NFL player
Willie Offord	1998 – 2001	NFL player
Dan Reeves	1962 – 1964	former NFL player and head coach
Sidney Rice	2005 – 2006	NFL player
Dunta Robinson	2001 – 2003	NFL player
Marcus Robinson	1993 – 1994, 1996	NFL player
George Rogers	1977 – 1980	former No. 1 draft pick in the NFL, 1980 Heisman Trophy winner
Sterling Sharpe	1983, 1985 – 1987	former NFL player and ESPN football analyst
Duce Staley	1995 – 1996	former NFL player and Gamecock Radio Network sideline reporter
Rod Trafford	1999 – 2001	NFL player
Travelle Wharton	2000 – 2003	NFL player
Troy Williamson	2002 – 2004	NFL player

Men's Soccer

Name	Letter years	Notes
Brad Guzan	2003 – 2004	Goalkeeper for CD Chivas USA in Major League Soccer
Tim Hankinson	1973 – 1977	former soccer coach at Syracuse University and former coach of Major League Soccer's Tampa Bay Mutiny and Colorado Rapids
Clint Mathis	1994 – 1997	current member of the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer
Josh Wolff	1995 – 1997	Former MLS player and current forward for TSV 1860 München, as well as the US Men's National Soccer Team.

Other sports

Name	Letter years	Notes
Aleen Bailey	2002 – 2003	Olympic gold medalist
Dawn Ellerbe	1993 – 1997	U.S. Track & Field Champion, U.S. Olympian
Otis Harris	2001 – 2004	Olympic gold and silver medalist
Shannon Johnson	1992 – 1996	second all-time leading scorer in women's basketball history (2,230 points), member of gold medal-winning 2004 U.S. Olympic basketball team, four-time WNBA all-star
Terrence Trammell	1998 – 2000	Olympic silver medalist in 2000 and 2004, world champion in 60-meter hurdles
Tonique Williams-Darling	1997 – 1998	Olympic gold medalist in 2004 in the 400 meters for the Bahamian team

Business, Education, and Sciences

Name	Class year	Notes
Paula Harper Bethea	1975	former chairwoman of the board of the United Way, former chairwoman and current board member of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Burckhalter	1934	retired as distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, member of National Inventors Hall of Fame
Charles Dallara	1970	international economist and managing director for the Institute of International Finance
Bradley Hamm	1990	dean of Indiana University School of Journalism
William "Hootie" Johnson	1953	chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America, former chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club
Sister Carol Keehan	1980	president and CEO of the U.S. Catholic Health Association
Larry Kellner	1981	chairman of the board and CEO of Continental Airlines
David A. King	1983	director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Joab Lesesne, Jr.	1961	former president of Wofford College
Robert C. McNair	1958	owner of NFL franchise Houston Texans
Darla Moore	1975	financier (the Moore School of Business is named after her)
Peter McCausland	1971	chairman of the board and CEO of Airgas Inc.
Jacqueline Michel	1974	internationally known expert on oil spills
Philip Pearce	1953	former governor of the New York Stock Exchange
Ralph Roe, Jr.	1983	director of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Daniel Sanders	1961	former president of ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
Marva Smalls	1977	executive vice president of public affairs and chief of staff for Nickelodeon
Patricia Spakes	1973	chancellor of University of Washington
E. Lee Spence	1976	underwater archaeologist discovered the wreck of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley in 1970
John Swearingen	1938	former chairman of Standard Oil
Mary Thornley	1986	president of Trident Technical College
Glenn Tilton	1970	chairman, president and chief executive officer of United Airlines
Howard “Humpy” Wheeler, Jr.	1961	president of Lowe's Motor Speedway
Duan Wei	1975	former director general, budget accounting and statistics, government of Taiwan

Government, Law, and Politics

Name	Class year	Notes
Lee Atwater	1977	political consultant/strategist
André Bauer	–	Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
Solomon Blatt, Sr.	1917	Former longtime Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Solomon Blatt, Jr.	1941	District Court judge
Andrew Card	1971	former White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush
Glenn F. McConnell	1972	South Carolina Senate President Pro Tempore
Melvin Purvis	1925	FBI agent who helped capture notorious 1930s gangsters John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson
Jean H. Toal	1968	chief justice of the S.C. Supreme Court
Charles S. West	1848	Texas jurist and politician

U.S. Senators from South Carolina

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Ernest Hollings

Name	Class year	Term in Office	Notes
Christie Benet	1902	1918	Also coach of the Gamecock football team
Coleman Livingston Blease	–	1925 – 1931	Expelled for plagiarism in 1888, did not graduate; also Governor of South Carolina
Andrew Butler	1817	1846 – 1857
Matthew Butler	–	1877 – 1895	Attended in the late 1850's, did not graduate
Franklin H. Elmore	1819	1850	Also a United States Representative
Josiah J. Evans	1808	1853 – 1858
Lindsey Graham	1977	2003 – present	Also a United States Representative
James Henry Hammond	1825	1857 – 1860	Also Governor of South Carolina and a United States Representative
Wade Hampton III	1836	1879 – 1891	Also Governor of South Carolina
William Harper	1808	1826
Ernest Hollings	1947	1966 – 2005	Also Governor of South Carolina
Olin D. Johnston	1924	1945 – 1965	Also Governor of South Carolina
Alva M. Lumpkin	1908	1941
George McDuffie	1813	1842 – 1846	Also Governor of South Carolina and a United States Representative
Stephen Decatur Miller	1808	1831 – 1833	Also Governor of South Carolina and a United States Representative
William P. Pollock	1891	1918 – 1919
William C. Preston	1812	1833 – 1842
Thomas J. Robertson	1843	1868 – 1877
Donald S. Russell	1925	1965 – 1966	Also Governor of South Carolina
Ellison D. Smith	–	1909 – 1944	Failed freshman year, did not graduate
Thomas A. Wofford	1928	1956

U.S. Representatives from South Carolina

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Mendel Jackson Davis

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Laurence M. Keitt

Name	Class year	Term in Office	Notes
D. Wyatt Aiken	1849	1877 – 1887
William Aiken	1825	1851 – 1857	Also Governor of South Carolina
Milledge Luke Bonham	1834	1857 – 1860	Also Governor of South Carolina
William Waters Boyce	–	1853 – 1860	Attended in the late 1830's, did not graduate
John Bratton	1850	1884 – 1885
William H. Brawley	1860	1891 – 1894
Preston Brooks	–	1853 – 1857	Expelled in 1839 trying to free his brother from prison, did not graduate
Joseph R. Bryson	1920	1939 – 1953
Sampson H. Butler	–	1839 – 1842	Attended in the early 1820's, did not graduate
William Butler	1810	1841 – 1843
Patrick C. Caldwell	1820	1841 – 1843
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.	–	1979 – 1987	Attended in the late 1950's, did not graduate
John Campbell	1819	1837 – 1845
Robert B. Campbell	1809	1823 – 1825 1834 – 1837
John Carter	1811	1822 – 1829
William K. Clowney	1818	1833 – 1835 1837 – 1839
William F. Colcock	1823	1849 – 1853
Theodore G. Croft	1897	1904 – 1905
Mendel Jackson Davis	1970	1971 – 1981
Warren R. Davis	1810	1827 – 1835
Butler Derrick	–	1975 – 1995
Frederick H. Dominick	–	1917 – 1933
J. Edwin Ellerbe	–	1905 – 1913
Franklin H. Elmore	1819	1836 – 1839	Also a United States Senator
John H. Evins	1853	1877 – 1884
David E. Finley	1885	1899 – 1917
Allard H. Gasque	1901	1923 – 1938
Andrew R. Govan	1813	1822 – 1827
Lindsey Graham	1977	1995 – 2003	Also a United States Senator
William J. Grayson	1809	1833 – 1837
James Henry Hammond	1825	1835 – 1836	Also a United States Senator and Governor of South Carolina
James Butler Hare	1947	1949 – 1951
John J. Hemphill	1869	1883 – 1893
Robert W. Hemphill	1936	1957 – 1964
Kenneth Lamar Holland	1960	1975 – 1983
John Jenrette	1962	1975 – 1980
Laurence M. Keitt	1843	1853 – 1860
George Swinton Legaré	–	1903 – 1913
Hugh S. Legaré	1814	1837 – 1839
Edward C. Mann	1906	1919 – 1921
James Robert Mann	1947	1969 – 1979
Richard Irvine Manning I	1811	1834 – 1836	Also Governor of South Carolina
George McDuffie	1813	1821 – 1834	Also a United States Senator and Governor of South Carolina
John L. McMillan	–	1939 – 1973
Thomas S. McMillan	1912	1925 – 1939
John J. McSwain	1897	1921 – 1936
Stephen Decatur Miller	1808	1817 – 1819	Also a United States Senator and Governor of South Carolina
George W. Murray	–	1893 – 1895 1896 – 1897	Attended in the early 1870's, did not graduate
John Light Napier	1972	1981 – 1983
Wilson Nesbitt	–	1817 – 1819	Left after freshman year in 1805, did not graduate
William T. Nuckolls	1820	1827 – 1833
Liz J. Patterson	–	1987 – 1993	Attended in the early 1960's, did not graduate
William H. Perry	–	1885 – 1891	Attended in the late 1850's, did not graduate
Francis Wilkinson Pickens	–	1834 – 1841	Attended in the late 1820's, did not graduate; also Governor of South Carolina
Henry L. Pinckney	1812	1833 – 1837
J. Willard Ragsdale	–	1913 – 1919
James P. Richards	1921	1933 – 1957
John Peter Richardson II	1819	1836 – 1839	Also Governor of South Carolina
John S. Richardson	1850	1879 – 1883
L. Mendel Rivers	–	1941 – 1970
James Rogers	1813	1835 – 1837 1839 – 1843
Richard F. Simpson	1816	1843 – 1849
Hugo S. Sims, Jr.	1947	1949 – 1951
Floyd Spence	1952	1971 – 2001
Robin Tallon	1966	1987 – 1993
John C. Taylor	1919	1933 – 1939
Waddy Thompson, Jr.	1814	1835 – 1841
Samuel W. Trotti	1832	1842 – 1843
Albert Watson	1950	1963 – 1971
Joe Wilson	1972	2001 – present
Joseph A. Woodward	–	1843 – 1853	Attended in the mid 1820's, did not graduate

Congressmen from other states

Name	Class year	Term in office	Notes
Mark Anthony Cooper	1819	1839 – 1841 1842 – 1843	United States Representative from Georgia
Henry Washington Hilliard	1826	1845 – 1851	United States Representative from Alabama
John W. Johnston	–	1870 – 1883	United States Senator from Virginia
Dixon Hall Lewis	1820	1829 – 1844 H 1844 – 1848 S	United States Representative and United States Senator from Alabama
Louis Wigfall	1837	1859 – 1861	United States Senator from Texas

Governors of South Carolina

Name	Class year	Term in office	Notes
William Aiken	1825	1844 – 1846	Also a United States Representative
David Beasley	1979	1995 – 1999
Coleman Livingston Blease	–	1911 – 1915	Expelled for plagiarism in 1888, did not graduate; also a United States Senator
Milledge Luke Bonham	1834	1862 – 1864	Also a United States Representative
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.	–	1987 – 1995	Attended in the late 1950's, did not graduate
John Geddes	–	1818 – 1820	Attended in the mid 1810's, did not graduate
William Henry Gist	–	1858 – 1860	Expelled in 1827, did not graduate
James Henry Hammond	1825	1842 – 1844	Also a United States Senator and a United States Representative
Wade Hampton III	1836	1877 – 1879	Also a United States Senator
Joseph Emile Harley	1902	1941 – 1942
Jim Hodges	1979	1999 – 2003
Ernest Hollings	1947	1959 – 1963	Also a United States Senator
Richard Manning Jefferies	1910	1942 – 1943
Thomas Bothwell Jeter	1846	1880
David Johnson	–	1846 – 1848	Attended in the late 1820's, did not graduate
Olin D. Johnston	1924	1935 – 1939 1943 – 1945	Also a United States Senator
Andrew Gordon Magrath	1831	1864 – 1865
John Lawrence Manning	1836	1852 – 1854
Richard Irvine Manning I	1811	1824 – 1826	Also a United States Representative
George McDuffie	1813	1834 – 1836	Also a United States Senator and a United States Representative
Robert Evander McNair	1947	1965 – 1971
John Hugh Means	1832	1850 – 1852
Stephen Decatur Miller	1808	1828 – 1830	Also a United States Senator and a United States Representative
Franklin J. Moses, Jr.	–	1872 – 1874	Dismissed from freshman class in 1855, did not graduate
Francis Wilkinson Pickens	–	1860 – 1862	Attended in the late 1820's, did not graduate; also a United States Representative
John Peter Richardson II	1819	1840 – 1842	Also a United States Representative
John Peter Richardson III	1849	1886 – 1890
Richard Riley	1959	1979 – 1987	Also U.S. Secretary of Education
Donald S. Russell	1925	1963 – 1965	Also a United States Senator
William Dunlap Simpson	1843	1879 – 1880
George Bell Timmerman, Jr.	1937	1955 – 1959
John C. West	1946	1971 – 1975

Governors of other states

Name	Class year	Term in office	Notes
John B. Floyd	1829	1849 – 1852	Governor of Virginia
John Gayle	1815	1831 – 1835	Governor of Alabama
Charles James McDonald	1816	1839 – 1843	Governor of Georgia
William McWillie	1817	1857 – 1859	Governor of Mississippi
John Murphy	1808	1825 – 1829	Governor of Alabama

Military

Name	Class year	Notes
John Bratton	1850	Confederate general during the American Civil War
Matthew Butler	–	Attended in the late 1850's, did not graduate; Confederate general during the American Civil War
James Ronald Chalmers	1851	Confederate general during the American Civil War
John B. Floyd	1829	Confederate general during the American Civil War and Governor of Virginia
Kathryn Frost	1970	Retired in 2005 as a major general in the U.S. Army, at the time the highest-ranked woman in the Army
Martin Witherspoon Gary	–	Attended in the early 1850's, did not graduate; Confederate general during the American Civil War
Maxcy Gregg	1835	Confederate general during the American Civil War
Wade Hampton III	1836	Confederate general during the American Civil War, Governor of South Carolina and United States Senator
Alexander Cheves Haskell	1860	Confederate colonel during the American Civil War
Samuel McGowan	1841	Confederate general during the American Civil War
John A. Wharton	1850	Confederate general during the American Civil War

Religion and Ministry

Name	Class year	Notes
Stephen Elliott	1825	First Bishop of Georgia

Presidents of the University of South Carolina

Notable Faculty and Administrators

Name	Years	Notes
Charles Bierbauer	2002 – present	former CNN senior Washington correspondent
J. Larry Durstine	1982 – present	Former President of American College of Sports Medicine
Walter Edgar	1972 – present	South Carolina historian
Donald Fowler	1966 – 1968 1971 – present	former chairman of the Democratic National Convention
Janette Turner Hospital	1999 – present	award winning Australian author, succeeded James Dickey as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English
Rudolph E. Mancke III	2002 – present	former host of SCETV's Naturescene

Former Faculty and Administrators

Name	Years	Notes
Robby Benson	1988 – 1990	actor
Thomas Cooper	1819 – 1834	educator, philosopher, and political leader
James Dickey	1969 – 1997	poet and novelist author of Deliverance
Richard Theodore Greener	1873 – 1877	first black to graduate from Harvard University and first to teach at USC
Alexander Cheves Haskell	1867 – 1868	Professor of law
John LeConte	1856 – 1869	geologist
Joseph LeConte	1856 – 1870	geologist
Francis Lieber	1835 – 1856	jurist and political philosopher
John McLaren McBryde	1882 – 1888	Virginia Tech president
Abioseh Nicol	1990 – 1991	author, diplomat from Sierra Leone; former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations
Jihan Sadat	1985 – 1986	widow of Anwar Sadat
Emory M. Sneeden	1978 – 1982	U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
Richard L. Walker	1957 – 1981	former US ambassador to South Korea

Honorary Degree Recipients

Name	Year issued	Notes
John Drayton	1807	Governor of South Carolina; pushed for the foundation of South Carolina College to unite the state
Moses Waddel	1807	Educator in South Carolina and Georgia
Thomas Cooper	1833	President of the University of South Carolina
Robert Woodward Barnwell	1842	President of the University of South Carolina
Thomas Green Clemson	1886	Agriculturalist
Ellison Capers	1888	Confederate general during the American Civil War
Joseph B. Kershaw	1893	Confederate general during the American Civil War
Hugh Smith Thompson	1900	Governor of South Carolina
James F. Byrnes	–	Governor of South Carolina