38 Notable alumni of
Wofford College
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Wofford College is 1700th in the world, 604th in North America, and 569th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 notable alumni from Wofford 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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Chris Robinson
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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Christopher Mark Robinson is an American musician. He founded the rock band The Black Crowes, then known as Mr. Crowe's Garden, with his brother Rich Robinson in 1984. Chris is the lead singer of The Black Crowes, and he and his brother are the only continuous members of the Crowes. He is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, which was formed in 2011 while the Black Crowes were on hiatus. Robinson is noted for his high tenor vocal range and bluesy vocal runs.
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Norm Nixon
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Norman Ellard Nixon is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played with Scavolini Pesaro in Italy. Nicknamed "Stormin' Norman", he is a two-time NBA All-Star. He won two NBA championships with the Lakers in 1980 and 1982, at the beginning of their Showtime era.
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Craig Melvin
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Craig Delano Melvin is an American broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC. In August 2018, he became a news anchor on NBC's Today and, in October 2018, a co-host of Today Third Hour before being made permanent in January 2019.
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Ellison Barber
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ellison Litton Barber is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News based in Manhattan. She contributes to NBC News, MSNBC and NBC News Now. Barber was reporting outside of the United States Capitol as a mob attacked and overtook the Capitol building. She remained live on NBC News throughout the evening.
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Fletcher Magee
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- In 2015 studied sociology
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Fletcher Magee is an American basketball player for Budućnost Podgorica of the ABA League and the Prva A Liga. He played college basketball for Wofford College. While playing for the Terriers, he was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year by the league's media in consecutive years (2017–18 and 2018–19) and set the NCAA record for made three point shots in a career. His career NCAA three-point percentage of.435 and free throw percentage of.908 are among the highest ever.
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William McGirt
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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William Curtis McGirt III is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
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Olin D. Johnston
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- Studied in 1921
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston was an American politician from the US state of South Carolina. He served as the 98th governor of South Carolina, from 1935 to 1939 and again from 1943 to 1945. He represented the state in the United States Senate from 1945 until his death from pneumonia in Columbia, South Carolina in 1965. He has become infamously remembered for denying clemency to George Stinney, a 14 year-old African American boy who was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1944 after a trial that lasted for one single day, a conviction overturned 70 years later.
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Fisher DeBerry
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Fisher DeBerry is a retired American football player. He served as the head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, compiling a record of 169–109–1. DeBerry led 17 of his 23 Air Force Falcons squads to winning records and captured 12 bowl game bids. Three times his teams won the Western Athletic Conference title. Once in 1985, then in 1995, and again in 1998. DeBerry retired on December 15, 2006 with the most wins and highest winning percentage (.608) in the history of Air Force football. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2011.
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Donald Fowler
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacherpolitical campaign staff
- Biography
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Donald L. Fowler was an American political scientist, professor, and political operative who served as National Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 1995 to 1997, alongside Chris Dodd as General Chairman during this same period.
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Cameron Jackson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Cameron Jackson is an American professional basketball player for Bambitious Nara of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Wofford Terriers.
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Philip H. Stoll
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Philip Henry Stoll was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
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Forrest Lasso
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- Studied in 2011-2014
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Forrest Baldwin Lasso is an American soccer player who plays for USL Championship club Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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Dennis Shedd
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Dennis Wayne Shedd is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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Keve Aluma
- Years
- 1998-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Keve Aluma is an American professional basketball player for the Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League (KBL). He previously played for the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Wofford Terriers.
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Noah Dahlman
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Noah Dahlman is an American professional basketball player for the Gifu Swoops of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball at Wofford College, where he was an All-American.
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Storm Murphy
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Storm Murphy is an American professional player for Medipolis SC Jena of the ProA. He played college basketball for the Wofford Terriers and the Virginia Tech Hokies.
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Bob Young
- Occupations
- novelistpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Robert Wood Young is an American broadcast journalist, author, and politician who served as Mayor of Augusta, Georgia. Young also served a presidential appointment by George W. Bush on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and at United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Young later served as the President and CEO of the Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy. He is currently owner and CEO of Eagle Veterans Services and Squeaky Productions, both headquartered in Augusta.
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Brad Loesing
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Brad Loesing is an American-German professional basketball player who last played for Rostock Seawolves of the ProA. As a senior at Wofford, he was selected as the 2012 Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Year and was named as a First Team Academic All-American in that 2011–12 season.
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John Jacob Riley
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- Studied in 1915
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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John Jacob Riley was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, husband of Corinne Boyd Riley.
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Jamar Anthony Diggs
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jamar Anthony Diggs is an American professional basketball player for Fos Provence Basket of the Pro B.
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Clyde H. Hamilton
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Clyde Henry Hamilton was a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
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Karl Cochran
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Karl Cochran is an American professional basketball player for BBC Monthey of the Swiss Championnat LNA. He played college basketball for Wofford.
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Ibra Charles Blackwood
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ibra Charles Blackwood was the 97th Governor of South Carolina from 1931 to 1935.
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William Haselden Ellerbe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Haselden Ellerbe was the 86th governor of South Carolina from 1897 to 1899.
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Thomas Gordon McLeod
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Gordon McLeod was an American attorney and the 95th Governor of South Carolina from 1923 to 1927.
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Pat Cannon
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Patrick Cannon was a four-term United States Representative from Florida, serving from 1939 to 1947.
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Chevez Goodwin
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Chevez Brandford Goodwin is an American professional basketball player who last played for Rostock Seawolves of the Basketball Bundesliga. He previously played college basketball with the USC Trojans of the Pac-12 Conference, as well as for the College of Charleston Cougars and the Wofford Terriers.
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Charles Jeter
- Occupations
- business executivepolitician
- Biography
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Charles Jeter, is an American politician and business executive. He is known for having founded Team Racing Auto Circuit. He also is the President of Intermodal FCL, Inc. A Republican, he represented District 92 in the North Carolina House of Representatives from Jan. 2013 until his abrupt resignation on July 25, 2016.
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Samuel Dibble
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Dibble was a lawyer, educator and Confederate Civil War veteran who served several terms as U.S. Representative from South Carolina during the 1880s.
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John Carlisle Kilgo
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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John Carlisle Kilgo served as a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) from 1910 to 1922. From 1894 to 1910, Kilgo was the president of Trinity College, in Durham, North Carolina, the predecessor of Duke University. Earlier, Kilgo was a circuit preacher in South Carolina and a financial agent of Wofford College.
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Francis L. Garrett
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Francis Leonard Garrett was a Rear Admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy.
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Jim Neal
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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James Ellerbe "Daddy" Neal was an American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Hugo S. Sims, Jr
- Enrolled in Wofford College
- Studied in 1941
- Occupations
- politicianeditorlawyer
- Biography
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Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
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Samuel J. Nicholls
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Jones Nicholls was a United States representative from South Carolina. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He attended Bingham Military Institute in Asheville, North Carolina; Wofford College, in Spartanburg, South Carolina; Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia; and the University of Chicago Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Spartanburg.
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J. Edwin Ellerbe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Edwin Ellerbe was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
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William Wallace Duncan
- Occupations
- biographer
- Biography
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William Wallace Duncan was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1886.
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Alfred C. Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alfred Charles Smith was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 3rd district.
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Samuel McGowan
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Samuel McGowan was an admiral of the United States Navy.
