37 Notable alumni of
Birmingham Southern College
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Birmingham Southern College is 1353rd in the world, 479th in North America, and 449th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Birmingham Southern College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kate Jackson
- Occupations
- film produceractortelevision actormanufacturermodel
- Biography
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Lucy Kate Jackson, known professionally as Kate Jackson, is an American actress and television producer, known for her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie's Angels (1976–1979) and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987). Her film roles include Making Love (1982) and Loverboy (1989). She is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and Photoplay (magazine) award winner for "Favorite TV Actress" 1978.
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Jennifer Hale
- Occupations
- voice actormusician
- Biography
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Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-born voice actress. She is best known for her work in video game franchises such as Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, BioShock Infinite, Metroid Prime, Halo, Overwatch, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. In 2013, she was recognized by Guinness World Records as the most prolific video game voice actor.
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Amanda Bearse
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorfilm directortelevision director
- Biography
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Amanda Bearse is an American actress, comedian and director. She starred in the 1985 supernatural horror film Fright Night, and later starred as Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy in the Fox sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997). Bearse later began working as television director, directing over 90 episodes of comedy series.
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Glenn Shadix
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorvoice actorstage actor
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William Glenn Shadix was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Walker Hayes
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Charles Edgar Walker Hayes is an American country pop singer and songwriter. He has released four studio albums: Reason to Rhyme in 2011 on Capitol Records Nashville, and Boom, Country Stuff the Album, and New Money in 2017, 2022, and 2023 on Monument Records. Hayes has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts; his highest-peaking is "Fancy Like", which reached the number one position on both charts between late 2021 and early 2022.
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Pat Buttram
- Occupations
- actorfilm actordub actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram was an American character actor. Buttram was known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the television series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice that, in his own words, "never quite made it through puberty."
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Kim Hawthorne
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Kimberly Hawthorne is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Broadway and daytime soap operas, before landing supporting roles on the prime time dramas. From 2000 to 2005, Hawthorne was regular cast member in the CBC Television police drama, Da Vinci's Inquest. From 2016 to 2020, she starred as Kerissa Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf.
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Howell Heflin
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- In 1942 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- military officerpoliticianuniversity teacherlawyerjudge
- Biography
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Howell Thomas Heflin was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1997.
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Robert Aderholt
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert Brown Aderholt is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 4th congressional district since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes most of Tuscaloosa County north of the Black Warrior River, as well as Birmingham's far northern suburbs in Walker County and the southern suburbs of Huntsville and Decatur.
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Bruce Maxwell
- Occupations
- professional baseball player
- Biography
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Bruce Tyrone Maxwell III is a German–born American professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics from 2016 through 2018.
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Bob Jones
- Occupations
- evangelistradio personalityacademic administrator
- Biography
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Robert Reynolds Jones Sr. was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.
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J. Gordon Melton
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherhistorian
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John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides. He is also an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
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John Cohen
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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John Cohen is an American former baseball player and coach who is currently the 16th athletic director for the Auburn University Tigers. He is former head baseball coach of Mississippi State University, where he also served as the athletic director from 2016 to 2022.
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Henry V. Graham
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- Studied in 1935
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Henry Vance Graham was an American Army National Guard general who protected black activists during the civil rights movement. He is most famous for asking Alabama governor George Wallace to step aside and permit black students to register for classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1963 during the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
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Luther Terry
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Luther Leonidas Terry was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the ninth Surgeon General of the United States from 1961 to 1965, and is best known for his warnings against the dangers and the impact of tobacco use on health.
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Howard Cruse
- Occupations
- draftspersoncaricaturistcomics artist
- Biography
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Howard Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics. First coming to attention in the 1970s, during the underground comix movement with Barefootz, he was the founding editor of Gay Comix in 1980, created the gay-themed strip Wendel during the 1980s, and reached a more mainstream audience in 1995 when an imprint of DC Comics published his graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.
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Walter P. McConaughy
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. was a career American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to a number of countries.
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Watt Key
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Albert Watkins Key, Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key and Albert Key, is an American fiction author who is known for writing young-adult survival fiction. A resident of Alabama, his debut novel Alabama Moon was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006 and was the 2007 winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for older readers. It received a 2006 Parents' Choice Award. Alabama Moon has been translated and published in eight languages. In 2015 Alabama Moon was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the top 100 young-adult books of all time.
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John McDuffie
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
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John McDuffie was a United States representative from Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
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Ray Reach
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposerpianistbandleadermusic director
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Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist, guitarist, composer, arranger, music producer, and educator, named by AL.com as one of "30 Alabamians who changed jazz history." He serves as President and CEO of Ray Reach Music and Magic City Music Productions.
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Morgan Murphy
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Morgan Murphy is a Captain in the United States Navy Reserve, a former national security advisor to Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, a former press secretary to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and an American author.
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J. T. Waggoner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Thomas "Jabo" Waggoner Jr. is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 16th District since 1990. He received his B.A. from Birmingham Southern College and his J.D. from the Birmingham School of Law.
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Charles Gaines
- Occupations
- musicianjournalistnovelistfilmmakeractor
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Charles Latham Gaines, Jr. is an American writer and outdoorsman, notable for numerous works in both the fiction and non-fiction genres. His writing most typically concerns the outdoors sports of fishing in general and fly fishing in particular, as well as upland bird hunting and mountaineering, often with an intellectual and philosophical bent, and an eye towards the various cultures and traditions surrounding different forms of fishing around the world.
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Donald Heflin
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in religion
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Donald L. Heflin is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Cape Verde from 2015 to 2018.
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Robert L. Williams
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Robert Lee Williams was an American lawyer, judge, and the third governor of Oklahoma. Williams played a role in the drafting of the Oklahoma Constitution and served as the first Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice. He also served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. As third Governor, Williams oversaw the state's response to the recent United States Supreme Court's ruling against Jim Crow laws and its involvement in the First World War (1914/1917-1918). He instituted the Oklahoma State Board of Affairs (later reorganized into the current Oklahoma Department of Central Services) which provided central purchasing services to various state departments, agencies, boards and bureaus. Due to his direct administrative role and concentration of power, Governor Williams counteracted the previous loss of executive power and disagreements with the Oklahoma Legislature under previous second Governor Lee Cruce (1863-1933, served 1911-1915).
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Harvie Branscomb
- Occupations
- university teacherlibrarianacademic administrator
- Biography
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Bennett Harvie Branscomb was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, he was the director of the Duke University Libraries and dean of the Duke Divinity School. Additionally, he served as a professor of Christian theology at Southern Methodist University. He was the author of several books about New Testament theology.
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Rostislav Vergun
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Rostislav Vergun is a Belarusian professional basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach of Tsmoki Minsk and the Belarus national team.
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Connor Robertson
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Connor Robertson is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He was drafted out of Birmingham Southern College in the 31st round of the 2004 Major League Baseball draft by the Oakland Athletics.
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William Acker
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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William Marsh Acker Jr. was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
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Jason Sabio
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jason Abbott Abantao Sabio is a Filipino soccer player who plays as a center-back or a right-back. He is more comfortable at central defense because of his leap, speed, and communication skills.
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Jakob Sigurðarson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jakob Örn Sigurðarson is an Icelandic basketball coach and former player. He was named the Icelandic men's basketball player of the year in 2011. Jakob won the Icelandic championship in 2000 and 2009, and the Swedish championship in 2011.
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Laurie Calvin Battle
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- Studied in 1934
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianlawyerinsurance brokerfarmer
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Laurie Calvin Battle was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. He was in the United States Army Air Forces and served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II.
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Ann Fowler
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Ann Fowler is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Birmingham, Alabama, who was named Miss Alabama 1969. She would later marry and divorce American television executive Roone Arledge.
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Reynold N. Hoover
- Occupations
- lawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Reynold Nelson Hoover is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army, who served as the deputy commander of the United States Northern Command.
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George Huddleston, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Huddleston Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.
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Royce W. Murray
- Enrolled in Birmingham Southern College
- In 1957 graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Royce W. Murray was an American chemist and chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests were focused on electrochemistry, molecular designs, and sensors. He published over 440 peer-reviewed articles in analytical, physical, inorganic, and materials chemistry, and trained 72 Ph.D students, 16 master’s students, and 58 postdoctoral fellows, 45 of whom have gone on to university faculty positions. He was named a fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2012, and was the inventor on three patents related to surface-modified electrodes.
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Perry O. Hooper, Sr
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Perry Oliver Hooper Sr. was an American jurist who served as the 27th chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1995 to 2001. He was the first Republican since Reconstruction to have been elected to his state's highest court.
