The following is a list of people associated with the University of Tennessee system in all its campuses. The list does not include personnel associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Politics and law
Education
Actors, directors, and entertainers
Artists and musicians
Authors
Business and economy
Military
Athletics and sportscasters
Journalists and newscasters
Richard Ernsberger Jr., senior editor, Newsweek
Huell Howser, California television personality
Ryan McGee, ESPN writer and commentator
Ann Taylor, NPR newscaster
Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN writer and commentator
Rhodes Scholars
Nobel laureates
James Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Science; received an M.S. degree from UT in 1941
Peter C. Doherty, faculty member in the UT Health Science Center in Memphis
Pulitzer prize winners
Science and technology
Astronauts
Faculty
Sandra Blain (born 1941), ceramicist, potter, and sculptor
Charles W. Kent (1860–1917), scholar of the English language
Vernon Lattin (born 1938), president of Brooklyn College
Carolyn Ringer Lepre, 10th president of Salisbury University
Kate Vitasek (born 1968), author and educator, adjunct faculty in the Haslam College of Business Global Supply Chain Institute and the Graduate and Executive Education