Alumni
Many past and present political leaders are graduates of the University, including President Woodrow Wilson; Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, John Warner, Charles Robb, George Allen, and B. Evan Bayh III, and Christopher "Kit" Bond; and Governors Janet Napolitano, Gerald Baliles, Angus King, and Lowell Weicker.
The University has also produced leaders in the arts, including Louis Auchincloss, Lewis Allen (the Broadway producer of Annie), Mark Johnson (the movie producer of Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam), Henry Taylor (the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry), and Edgar Allan Poe.
Other notable alumni include astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Karl Heinze, State Supreme Court Justices Leroy R. Hassell and John Charles Thomas, medical pioneer Walter Reed, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, and broadcast journalist Katherine Couric.
As of September 2007:
| Total Alumni |
191,891 |
| Multiple Degrees |
21,448 |
| Total Women |
82,470 |
| Black Alumni |
5% |
| Asian Alumni |
4.89% |
| Latino Alumni |
1.1% |
| States with Highest Populations — Top Ten |
| Virginia |
78,661 |
| New York |
9,837 |
| Maryland |
9,560 |
| California |
9,072 |
| North Carolina |
8,403 |
| Pennsylvania |
6,272 |
| Florida |
6,196 |
| Georgia |
5,828 |
| New Jersey |
4,659 |
| Texas |
4,630 |
| Population of Alumni by School |
| Architecture |
6,120 |
| Arts & Sciences |
78,084 |
| Commerce |
13,020 |
| Darden |
7,164 |
| Education |
20,266 |
| Engineering |
20,598 |
| Executive Program |
2 |
| Graduate School of Arts & Sciences |
15,890 |
| Law |
14,118 |
| Medical Technology School |
63 |
| Medicine |
8,849 |
| School of Continuing & Professional Studies |
309 |
| Nursing |
7,344 |
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