This list of notable Auburn University people includes alumni, faculty, and former students of Auburn University.
Each of the following alumni, faculty, and former students of Auburn University is presumed to be notable, receiving significant coverage in multiple published, secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. See: Notability on Wikipedia.
Academia
Ali Abdelghany (1980), Egyptian marine biologist
Wilford S. Bailey (1942), 13th president of Auburn University
P. O. Davis (1916), radio pioneer; Alabama Extension Service director; national agricultural leader and spokesman Luther Duncan (1900 and 1907), 4-H pioneer, Cooperative Extension administrator; Auburn University President Jeffrey S. Harper (1998), executive director at Scott College of Business, Indiana State University John Junkins (B.S. 1965), professor of aerospace engineering and former interim President of Texas A&M University Vincent Poor (1972 and 1974), dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University; member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001) and of the National Academy of Sciences (2011), recipient of John Fritz Medal (2016) Walter Merritt Riggs (1892), president of Clemson University (1910–1924), "father of Clemson football" E. T. York (1942 and 1946), Alabama Cooperative Extension System director (1959–1961); interim president of the University of Florida (1973–1974); chancellor of the State University System of Florida (1974–1980)
Architecture, design and construction
Marlon Blackwell (1980), architect, 2020 AIA Gold Medal
Jennifer Bonner (born 1979), architect
Tom Hardy (1970), design strategist, corporate head of the IBM Design Program
Samuel Mockbee (1974), architect, founder of Auburn's Rural Studio, 2004 AIA Gold Medal; MacArthur Fellow (2000) Paul Rudolph (1940), architect, chairman of Yale Department of Architecture, 1958–1965
Arts and humanities
Ace Atkins (1994), author and journalist
Margaret Boozer (1989), ceramist and sculpture artist
Ashley Crow (1982), movie and TV actress
Tim Dorsey (1983), author
Gianna Dior, pornographic actress
Kenneth R. Giddens (1931), director of Voice of America and founder of WKRG-TV, Inc. in Mobile, Alabama Thom Gossom, Jr. (1975), actor Sophia Bracy Harris (B.S. 1972), child care leader, MacArthur Fellow (1991) Daniel L. Haulman (1983 PhD), aviation historian and writer Kate Higgins (1991), voice actress, notably Sakura Haruno on Naruto Bill Holbrook (1980), cartoonist, On The Fast Track, Safe Havens and Kevin & Kell Jimmy Johnson (1974), cartoonist, Arlo and Janis Rheta Grimsley Johnson (1977), syndicated newspaper columnist Justice Leak (2003), actor, The Great Debaters Richard Marcinko (M.A. Political Science), founder U.S. Navy SEAL Team SIX and Red Cell; author of Rogue Warrior and other fiction and non-fiction books Big Bill Morganfield (Communications), blues singer and guitarist Michael O'Neill (1974), actor Kimberly Page (1990), actress and professional wrestling valet Lallah Miles Perry (1945), artist and painter Van Allen Plexico (1990 B.A., 1994 M.A.), award-winning author and educator Selena Roberts (1988), author, sportswriter, and digital entrepreneur Jeanne Robertson (1967), comedian and humorist, Miss North Carolina 1963, SEC Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000 Gerald Roush (1968 B.A., 1973 M.A.), Ferrari historian, publisher of the Ferrari Market Letter Phillip Sandifer (1977–78), writer, recording artist Jason Sanford (1993), science fiction author Elmo Shropshire (1964), veterinarian and singer, best known for "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" Anne Rivers Siddons (1958), author Eugene Sledge (1955), World War II Marine and later professor of biology, author of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Octavia Spencer (1994), Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actress William Spratling (1921), silversmith and artist, "father of Mexican silver" Travis S. Taylor (1991), science fiction author and host of Rocket City Rednecks on National Geographic Channel Toni Tennille (1962), award-winning singer, half of the singing group Captain & Tennille Cynthia Tucker (1976), syndicated columnist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Webb (2012), Miss Alabama USA 2012; Top 10 at Miss USA 2012 Dave Williamson, stand-up comedian Drake White, country music singer Jake Adam York (1993), poet