List of Baylor University people

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The list of Baylor University people includes notable alumni, faculty, and former students of Baylor University.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Medal of Honor recipients

Jack Lummus
John "Killer" Kane ^[1]

[edit] Academics

Don Baker - political scientist
William Bennett Bizzell - the fifth president of the University of Oklahoma and president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University)
Jerry Cain - President of Judson College in Elgin, IL
Gilberto Freyre - Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian.
Guy Benton Johnson - a sociologist and cultural anthropologist. He was a distinguished student of black culture in the rural South and a pioneer advocate of racial equality.
Glenn McGee - American professor of medicine, philosophy, law and public health

[edit] Arts and entertainment

Nancy Barrett - an American actress, best known for her roles in the soap opera Dark Shadows
Crystal Bernard - singer & actress who starred in the television series Wings
David Burrows - film and television producer, director and writer
David Crowder Band, a Christian rock group
Jim Dickinson - record producer, singer and pianist
Monroe E. Dodd - Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1912–1950, the former Dodd College for Girls, and pioneer radio minister
Phil Driscoll - Grammy-winning trumpet player ^[2]
Jeff Dunham - Award-winning ventriloquist and comedian, and star of Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself
Robert Fulghum - Best-selling author, philosopher
Grant Garrison - film and television actor
Bruce Greer - award winning composer
Shaun Groves - Contemporary Christian musician, singer, songwriter [1]
John Lee Hancock - Director of The Alamo; producer of My Dog Skip ^[3]
Robin Hardy - author of numerous books including The Annals of Lystra: Chataine's Guardian
Thomas Harris - Best-selling author of Silence of the Lambs
Mark Hayes (composer) - Christian vocal and instrumental arranger
Jim Hillin - Visual effects artist for such films as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Spider-Man 2, and Dinosaur ^[4]
Julie Kenner - author and former lawyer
Jack Hurst - actor on The Cleaner, The Mist, and Walking Tall 3
Angela Kinsey - actress on the US television series The Office^[5]
Austin Miller - actor, singer, and dancer on Grease: You're The One That I Want ^[6]
Willie Nelson - country music star and winner of six grammys
Derek Phillips, III - actor, plays the role of Billy Riggins on the Friday Night Lights television show [2]
Alfred Reed - composer and conductor
Kevin Reynolds (director) - director of "Fandango", Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Waterworld, and The Count of Monte Cristo
Robert Sterling - songwriter, produce, arranger. His songs have been performed and recorded by Christian artists Point of Grace, Gold City, and Sandi Patty
Johnny Rad - street artist
Steven Stucky - Pulitzer Prize winner for music ^[7]
David Sullivan - film and television actor
Alex Cole Taylor - actor, acting teacher, director
Allen Wier - writer
Orian Williams - associate producer of Oscar nominated film Shadow of the Vampire^[8]
Noble Willingham - television and film actor
Trey Wingo - co-host of ESPN's SportsCenter^[9]
Jennifer Vasquez, contestant on Season 6 of CBS's Big Brother and an actress in Mike Judge's comedy Idiocracy as well as Prison Break, and Friday Night Lights
Roxanne Wilson, finalist on Season 5 of NBC's The Apprentice^[10]

[edit] Baptist leaders

B. H. Carroll (1843-1914) - (attended but did not graduate), first president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
James T. Draper, Jr. -- pastor of First Baptist Euless (1975–1991) and president of Southern Baptist LifeWay Resources (1991-2006)
Curtis W. Freeman - Research Professor of Theology and Director of the Baptist House of Studies, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC
Kyle Lake - pastor and leader in the Emerging Church movement
J. Frank Norris - popular fundamentalist Baptist preacher and controversial critic of Baylor University embracing evolution in the 1920s
Paul Powell - Dean of George W. Truett Theological Seminary, pastor, BGCT leader, author
John R. Rice - Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper
Lester Roloff - fundamentalist Baptist preacher, storyteller, and author
George W. Truett - Pastor First Baptist Church Dallas 1897 to 1944, president Baptist World Alliance and Southern Baptist Convention

[edit] Business

John Baugh - founder and former CEO of Sysco Corporation, former Baylor University regent and benefactor ^[11]
Ed Crenshaw - President of Publix Supermarkets, Inc. ^[12]
Robert Darby - Chief Auditor, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport ^[13]
Paul Foster - President and CEO of Western Refining ^[14]
Mary Goodrich - Prominent Dallas, Texas attorney
Mark Hurd - CEO of Hewlett-Packard Corp. ^[15]
Gary Keller - Co-founder and chairman of Keller Williams Realty International ^[16]
Rebecca Mark - former head of Enron International ^[17]
Bob J. Perry - Founder of Perry Homes
Andrew Rayburn - noted American
Sid W. Richardson - rancher, oilman, and philanthropist
Michaelanne Roberts, SLP/CCC - Founder, Beyond Speech Therapy Group, LLC.
Marjorie Scardino - CEO of Pearson, a major media group; former CEO of the Economist Group; also a non-executive director of Nokia Corporation ^[18]
Bob R. Simpson - Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of XTO Energy, a Fortune 500 company. ^[19]^[20]
Bill Townsend - Internet entrepreneur
Jim L. Turner - CEO of Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group ^[21]

[edit] Judges and Justices

Charles Barrow - former Justice to the Texas Supreme Court and a Dean of Baylor Law School
Leonard E. Davis - U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas ^[22]
James Kinkeade - Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas ^[23]
Thomas R. Phillips - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Priscilla Owen - Judge, United States Court of Appeals-5th Circuit, and spoken about nominee to Supreme Court
Walter S. Smith - Chief Judge, Western District of Texas ^[24]
William Steger - long time U.S. District judge for the Eastern District of Texas, ran unsuccessfully for Texas governor in 1960 and United States House of Representatives in 1962
Steve M. King - Judge, Probate Court #1, Tarrant County, Texas
Don Willett - Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas

[edit] Medical community

H. Bentley Glass - geneticist and columnist
W. Roy Smythe - Chairman of Surgery for the Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Health System and professor for the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

[edit] Politics

Former Governors of Texas:
- Sul Ross (former student; did not graduate but is an alumnus since he completed a semester)
- Pat Morris Neff (later president of the University)
- Price Daniel
- Mark White
- Ann Richards
James B. Adams - Texas legislator, and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kip Averitt - Texas State Senator ^[25]
Charlotte Beers - American businesswoman and former Under Secretary of State
Bob Bullock (Baylor Law School) - Lieutenant Governor, State Comptroller of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, State Representative
Laura Bush - Received honorary J.D. in 1998
Victor Carrillo - Member of the Texas Railroad Commission ^[26]
Sam Houston Clinton - former Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge. Lawyer represented both atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed alleged presidential assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald
Tom Connally - Represented Texas in U.S. Senate from 1929-1953. ^[27]
Bill Daniel - former Governor of Guam and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives
Price Daniel, Jr. - Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, 1973–1975
Craig Eiland - member of the Texas House of Representatives [3]
James Walter Elder - Congressman from Louisiana
Louie Gohmert - Congressman from Texas 1st District
Sam B. Hall - former Congressman and federal judge
Andrew Jackson Houston - son of famous Texas hero and statesman Sam Houston and an American politician
Temple Lea Houston - son of Samuel Houston, Attorney, Texas District Attorney, and State Legislator
Ernest Istook - former Congressman From Oklahoma's 5th Congressional
Leon Jaworski (Baylor Law School) - special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal and one of the first partners of the major international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski
Julie Myers - Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Chip Pickering - current Congressman from Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District
William R. Poage - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 – 1979
Joe Rubio, Jr. -- District Attorney of Webb and Zapata counties, 1989-2008
J. T. Rutherford - former Congressman from Texas
Max Sandlin - former Congressman from Texas' 1st Congressional District 1997-2005
William S. Sessions - former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1987 - 1993)
W. Marvin Watson - former advisor to President Lyndon Johnson and Postmaster General

[edit] Scientists

Gordon K. Teal - worked in early efforts to improve transistors

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Baseball

Pat Combs - Pitcher, first round draft pick for the Philadelphia Phillies, played for the Phillies from 1989 to 1992
Jason Jennings - Pitcher, Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB)
Ted Lyons - Pitcher, Chicago White Sox, 1923-1946, member of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame
Drayton McLane, Jr. - Owner of Houston Astros in MLB, major food distribution entrepreneur
David Murphy - Outfielder, 2003 1st round draft pick by the Boston Red Sox; now with the Texas Rangers
Kelly Shoppach - Catcher, Cleveland Indians (MLB)
Kip Wells - Pitcher, Colorado Rockies (MLB)

[edit] Basketball

Jody Conradt - Legendary women's basketball coach at the University of Texas.
Sonja Hogg - Head women's basketball coach at Louisiana Tech and Baylor.
Vinnie Johnson - NBA basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons; known as "The Microwave" for being able to come off the bench heated up and ready to play.
Brian Skinner - NBA F/C for the Phoenix Suns
Terry Teagle - NBA Shooting guard in the NBA from 1982-1993, playing for the Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Golden State Warriors, and Los Angeles Lakers
David Wesley - Shooting guard for Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA
Micheal Williams - NBA point guard from 1988 to 1999 with the Detroit Pistons, Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Hornets, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Toronto Raptors
Sophia Young - All-Star forward for the San Antonio Silver Stars of the WNBA

[edit] Football

Walter Abercrombie - NFL running back and kick returner 1982-1988 for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles
Willie Andrews - NFL defensive back and special teams ace for the New England Patriots
Gary Baxter - NFL safety and cornerback for the Cleveland Browns
Robert Blackmon - NFL defensive back (1990 - 1998) with the Seattle Seahawks and Indianapolis Colts
Matt Bryant - NFL placekicker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cody Carlson - NFL QB Primarily with Houston Oilers 1988-1994
Cotton Davidson - played and coached at Baylor, quarterback in the NFL and AFL
Santana Dotson - Defensive Lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers
Lawrence Elkins - wide receiver, first round draft choice of the NFL Green Bay Packers in 1965. Played two seasons with the AFL Houston Oilers ^[28]
Thomas Everett - NFL defensive back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1987 - 1995
James Francis - NFL linebacker from 1990-1999 for the Cincinnati Bengals and Washington Redskins
Malcolm Frank - Canadian Football League defensive back
Hayden Fry - NCAA Division I-A college football coach from 1962 to 1998
Dennis Gentry - Baylor University and NFL running back for the Chicago Bears
Bill Glass - Round 1 draft pick and defensive tackle with the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1961 and the Cleveland Browns from 1962 to 1968
Greg Hawthorne - NFL running back with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots
Jeff Ireland - kicker at Baylor and General Manager of the Miami Dolphins NFL football club.
Morley Jennings - head coach at Ouachita Baptist, and Baylor
Greg Jerman - Guard for the Buffalo Bills
Khari Long - Defensive end for the Chicago Bears
Gerald McNeil - "The Ice Cube", NFL and USFL wide receiver that played in the 1980s
Fred Miller - Offensive Lineman with the Chicago Bears
Jerry Moore - current head football coach at Appalachian State University
Mike Nelms - all-pro NFL and CFL defensive back
Luke Prestridge - former all-pro NFL punter with the Denver Broncos
Del Shofner - NFL split end with the Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants (1957-1967)
Mike Singletary - "Samurai" former NFL linebacker & current assistant head coach of the San Francisco 49ers as well as being in the NFL Hall of Fame
Justin Snow - long snapper for the Indianapolis Colts
Jack Steadman - the former chairman, vice president, president and general manager for the Kansas City Chiefs
Don Trull - All American quarterback at Baylor. Played 6 seasons with the AFL Houston Oilers (1964-1969) [4] [5]
Bob Woodruff - head football coach at University of Florida and athletic director at University of Tennessee

[edit] Tennis

Benjamin Becker - Professional tennis player. Defeated Andre Agassi in Agassi's final match the 2006 U.S. Open

[edit] Track and field

Michael Johnson - Winner of five Olympic gold medals and nine-time world champion
Jeremy Wariner - Winner of gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece for the individual 400 meter and the 4x400 meter
Darold Williamson - Winner of a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece in the 4x400 meter

[edit] Volleyball

Laura Daniela Lloreda - Puerto Rican volleyball player

[edit] Faculty and staff

[edit] Administration

George Washington Baines - maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, served briefly as natural science professor and president of Baylor University at its first location in Independence, Texas

[edit] Philosophy

Francis J. Beckwith - Associate Professor and Christian philosopher
Jonathan Kvanvig - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Christian philosopher, specialist in Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion.

[edit] Coaches

Scott Drew - men's basketball coach
Clyde Hart - former head track coach, currently director of track and field
Glenn Moore - softball coach, played both football and baseball in college and softball with "The King and His Court"
Art Briles - current Baylor football coach, won 4 state titles as coach at Stephenville(TX) High School
Kim Mulkey - Lady Bear basketball coach, college player at the Louisiana Tech University and on the US Olympic Team
Grant Teaff - former football head coach (1972-1992), member of the College Football Hall of Fame and executive director of the American Football Coaches Association
George Woodruff - Former Baylor football coach

[edit] Economics

Earl Grinols - Distinguished Professor of Economics, notable works include contributions to the study of the economic effect of gambling and casinos ^[29]
David VanHoose - Herman W. Lay Professor of Private Enterprise. He has written text books and papers used in the field of economics. Areas of focus are international economics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and banking.

[edit] English

Greg Garrett- Professor of English, winner of the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Prize for Fiction, and author of several books ^[30]

[edit] Honors College

David Lyle Jeffrey - Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, noted scholar of literature and Christianity. His works include the Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture, English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley, et al.

[edit] Religion

Ralph Wood - University professor and author of The Gospel According to Tolkien ^[31] ^[32]

[edit] Social sciences

Marc H. Ellis - controversial author of numerous articles and books on Israel and Jewish affairs ^[33]
Rodney Stark - advocate of the application of rational choice theory in the sociology of religion. ^[34]

[edit] Truett Seminary

Roger E. Olson - Professor of Theology, author of The Story of Christian Theology Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform
Jimmy Dorrell - Professor of Missions, author of Trolls and Truth

[edit] References