| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
| Robert Aldrich | | Non-degreed | Film director, writer, and producer of The Dirty Dozen | |
| Will Anderson | 2008 | Col | Lead singer of the pop-rock band Parachute | |
| Krystal Ball | 2003 | Col | Anchor on MSNBC's The Cycle | |
| David Berman | 1989 | Col | Lead singer of indie-rock band Silver Jews | |
| John Brenkus | 1993 | Col | Host, ESPN's Sports Science | |
| Margaret Brennan | 2002 | Col | Bloomberg TV anchor, In Business with Margaret Brennan | |
| Edward Brophy | | Col | Actor | |
| Coran Capshaw | 1983 | Col | Founder, Red Light Management; manager of the Dave Matthews Band, Faith Hill, and Alicia Keys | |
| Tom Cora | | Col | Avant-garde cellist and composer | |
| Katie Couric | 1979 | Col | Anchor of CBS Evening News; former host of NBC's Today Show | |
| John Dickerson | 1991 | Col | Anchor of CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson | |
| Deidre Downs | | Non-degreed | Miss America 2005 | |
| Kimberly Dozier | 1993 | Graduate | Reporter for CBS News | |
| Sarah Drew | 2002 | Col | Actress, Grey's Anatomy | |
| Tina Fey | 1992 | Col | Creator, writer, producer and actress, 30 Rock; former head writer, actress, Saturday Night Live | |
| Schuyler Fisk | 2004 | Col | Singer/songwriter | |
| Bob Gazzale | 1987 | Col | President, American Film Institute | |
| Jason George | 1994 | Col | Actor | |
| Brennan Gilmore | 2001 | Col | Bluegrass musician | |
| Richard Glatzer | 1975 | Graduate | Film director, producer, writer, Still Alice, The Fluffer, and Quinceañera | |
| Ann Hould-Ward | 1978 | Graduate | Broadway costume designer, Tony Award recipient | |
| Brit Hume | 1965 | Col | Managing editor, Fox News | |
| Laura Ingraham | 1991 | Law | Conservative talk show host | |
| Mark Johnson | 1971 | Col | Film producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, and The Chronicles of Narnia; Academy Award recipient | |
| Jen Lilley | 2007 | Col | Actress, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Artist | |
| Jessica Lynch | 2000 | Col | Miss New York 2003 | |
| Rod MacDonald | 1970 | Col | Singer/songwriter | |
| Stephen Malkmus | 1988 | Col | Lead singer of indie-rock band Pavement | |
| Tyler Mathisen | 1976 | Col | Co-anchor, Power Lunch; vice president for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC | |
| Benjamin McKenzie | 2001 | Col | Actor, Fox's The O.C. | |
| PES | 1995 | Col | Director, filmmaker, director of Oscar-nominated short film Fresh Guacamole | |
| Ed Romanoff | | BA Communication | Singer-songwriter | |
| Andrew Scheinman | 1973 | Law | TV producer, Seinfeld; Emmy Award recipient | |
| Teddy Sears | 1999 | Col | Actor, Masters of Sex | |
| Tom Shadyac | 1981 | Col | Director, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty | |
| Melissa Stark | 1995 | Col | Reporter, ESPN and ABC's Monday Night Football | |
| Skipp Sudduth | 1983 | Graduate | actor | |
| Sean Patrick Thomas | 1993 | Col | Actor | |
| Boyd Tinsley | | | Violinist, mandolinist, backup vocals for Dave Matthews Band | |
| Dylan Walsh | 1986 | Col | Actor, Nip/Tuck | |
| Whitney Wegman-Wood | | MFA | Actress, Kung Fu Ghost; screenwriter, The Last Butterflies | |
| Stan Winston | 1968 | Col | Special effects expert, four-time Academy Award recipient | |
| Paul Junger Witt | 1963 | Col | Emmy Award recipient; producer, Dead Poets Society; TV producer, The Golden Girls, The Partridge Family, Soap, Benson, and Blossom | |
| Vern Yip | 1990 | Col | Interior designer, HGTV home improvement personality | |
| Sasheer Zamata | 2006 | Col | Actor, Saturday Night Live | |
| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
| Yasushi Akashi | 1956 | Graduate | Chairman, International House of Japan; former undersecretary of the United Nations | |
| George Allen | 1974, 1977 | Col, Law | Governor and U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| Hanan Ashrawi | 1982 | Graduate | Official spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process | |
| Nathan L. Bachman | 1903 | Law | U.S. senator, Tennessee; justice, Tennessee Supreme Court | |
| Alben W. Barkley | 1900 | Law | 35th vice president of the United States; U.S. senator, Kentucky | |
| Evan Bayh | 1981 | Law | U.S. senator and governor, Indiana | |
| Andy Beshear | 2005 | Law | Governor of Kentucky | |
| Kit Bond | 1963 | Law | U.S. senator, Missouri | |
| Alan Stephenson Boyd | 1948 | Law | First United States Secretary of Transportation | |
| Harry F. Byrd Jr. | 1936 | Law | U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| Millard F. Caldwell | 1924 | Law | Governor, U.S. congressman, and state supreme court justice, Florida | |
| Greg Casar | 2012 | Col | U.S. congressman, Texas | |
| James Paul Clarke | 1878 | Law | United States senator and the 18th governor of Arkansas | |
| John Cornyn | 1995 | Law | U.S. senator, Texas | |
| Joseph T. Curry | | | Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
| William H. Daingerfield | 1829 | Col | 2nd mayor of San Antonio; ambassador | |
| Henry Winter Davis | 1841 | Law | Outspoken Radical Republican; U.S. congressman, Maryland | |
| Mary DeRosa | 1981 | Col | Former deputy counsel to the president for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration | |
| Hasjim Djala | 1959 | Law | Indonesian ambassador to Germany, Canada, and the United Nations; chairman and president of the International Seabed Authority | |
| Joseph T. Doyle | 1990 | Graduate | Pennsylvania state representative | |
| William A. Eaton | 1978 | Col | United States ambassador to Panama, United States assistant secretary of state | |
| Paul Erickson | 1988 | Law | Political consultant | |
| William Stamps Farish III | 1962 | Col | U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
| William Meade Fishback | 1855 | Law | 17th governor of Arkansas and U.S. senator, Arkansas | |
| Luis Fortuño | 1985 | Law | Governor of Puerto Rico | |
| Michael E. Guest | 1981 | Graduate | U.S. ambassador to Romania; first openly gay man to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate and serve as a U.S. ambassador | |
| Barbara Halliday | | | Mayor of Hayward, California | |
| Mark Herring | 1986 | Graduate | Attorney general of Virginia, member of the Senate of Virginia | |
| Yan Huiqing | 1900 | Col | Premier and prime minister of the Republic of China; Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union; Chinese representative in the League of Nations | |
| Robert M. T. Hunter | 1829 | Col | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| Eppa Hunton | 1843 | Law | CSA brigadier general; U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| Louis A. Johnson | 1913 | Law | Second United States Secretary of Defense | |
| Brereton Jones | 1961 | Communication | Governor of Kentucky | |
| John Kennedy | 1977 | Law | U.S. senator, Louisiana, state treasurer of Louisiana | |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1951 | Law | U.S. senator, New York; 1968 U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. attorney general | |
| Ted Kennedy | 1959 | Law | U.S. senator, Massachusetts | |
| Angus King | 1969 | Law | 72nd governor of Maine, United States senator from Maine | |
| William Preston Lane Jr. | 1915 | Law | Governor, Maryland | |
| J. Hamilton Lewis | | | U.S. senator, Illinois and first whip | |
| Sean Patrick Maloney | 1988, 1992 | Col, Law | U.S. congressman, New York's 18th congressional district and former White House Office of the Staff Secretary | |
| Thurgood Marshall Jr. | 1978, 1981 | Col, Law | Former White House Cabinet Secretary | |
| Roy Martin | | Commerce | Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, 31st president of the United States Conference of Mayors | |
| Henry M. Mathews | 1856 | Graduate | Governor of West Virginia | |
| Jennifer McClellan | 1997 | Law | U.S. congresswoman, Virginia's 4th congressional district | |
| Samuel D. McEnery | 1857 | Col | Governor and U.S. senator for Louisiana, United States House of Representatives | |
| Ana Montes | 1979 | Col | Convicted Cuban spy | |
| Janet Napolitano | 1983 | Law | Governor of Arizona, secretary of Homeland Security, president of the University of California System | |
| Bill Nelson | 1968 | Law | U.S. senator, Florida; NASA astronaut | |
| Kirstjen Nielsen | 1999 | Law | 6th secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security | |
| Longin Pastusiak | 1959 | Graduate | Marshall of the Senate, Poland | |
| Thomas Caute Reynolds | 1838 | Law | 11th lieutenant governor of Missouri; governor of Missouri | |
| Chuck Robb | 1973 | Law | Governor of Virginia and U.S. senator | |
| Joseph T. Robinson | 1895 | Law | Governor of Arkansas and United States Senate majority leader | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. | 1940 | Law | U.S. congressman, New York | |
| Chip Roy | 1994 | Commerce | U.S. congressman, Texas's 21st congressional district | |
| Mark Sanford | 1988 | Darden | Governor of South Carolina | |
| Eugene Scalia | 1985 | Col | 28th United States Secretary of Labor | |
| George Schley | 1833 | Col | Maryland State Senate, Maryland House of Delegates, and Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1850 | |
| Faryar Shirzad | 1992 | Law | Advisor to United States President George W. Bush | |
| Marc Short | 2004 | Darden | White House director of Legislative Affairs | |
| Michael Signer | | Law | Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia | |
| John W. Snow | 1965 | Graduate | United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
| Javier Solana | 1968 | Graduate | Spanish former secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and previous European Union foreign policy chief | |
| Abigail Spanberger | 2001 | Col | U.S. congresswoman, Virginia | |
| Richard B. Spencer | 2001 | Col | Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, founder of AlternativeRight.com, president and director of the National Policy Institute | |
| William B. Spong Jr. | 1947 | Law | U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| John C. Stennis | 1928 | Law | U.S. senator, Mississippi | |
| Edward Stettinius Jr. | 1924 | Col | United States Secretary of State | |
| Robert M. Switzer | | Law | United States representative | |
| Charles L. Terry Jr. | 1922 | Col | Governor of Delaware | |
| Robert Toombs | 1830 | Law | U.S. senator, Georgia | |
| John V. Tunney | 1959 | Law | U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, California | |
| Thomas B. Turley | 1867 | Law | U.S. senator, Tennessee | |
| John Warner | 1953 | Law | U.S. senator, Virginia | |
| Mac Warner | 1991 | Law | Secretary of state of West Virginia | |
| Lowell P. Weicker Jr. | 1957 | Law | Governor of Connecticut, U.S. congressman, and U.S. senator | |
| Kevin Whitaker | 1979 | Col | United States ambassador to Colombia | |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | 1982 | Law | United States senator from Rhode Island, attorney general of Rhode Island | |
| John Sharp Williams | 1876 | Law | Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives | |
| Wayne W. Williams | 1989 | Law | Secretary of state of Colorado | |
| Woodrow Wilson | | Non-degreed | 28th president of the United States | |
| Name | Class | School or degree | Notability | References |
| Val Ackerman | 1981 | Col | Founder and former president of WNBA, and current commissioner of the Big East Conference | |
| Jeff Agoos | 1990 | | Swiss–born American soccer defender | |
| Cory Alexander | 1995 | Col | Professional basketball player with the NBA | |
| Darion Atkins | 2015 | | Professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
| Ronde Barber | 1996 | Communication | Professional football player with Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |
| Tiki Barber | 1997 | Communication | Professional football player with the New York Giants; current sportscaster | |
| Malcolm Brogdon | 2016 | | Professional basketball player with the Washington Wizards | |
| Heather Burge | | | Professional basketball player with the WNBA | |
| Heidi Burge | 1993 | Col | Professional basketball player with the WNBA | |
| Chris Canty | 2004 | Col | Professional football player | |
| Rick Carlisle | 1984 | Col | Professional football player; current head coach, Dallas Mavericks | |
| John Choma | 1970 | | Professional football player with the San Francisco 49ers | |
| Casey Crawford | | | Professional football player | |
| Mike Cubbage | | | Professional baseball player and manager | |
| Virginius Dabney | | | College football player and coach | |
| Somdev Devvarman | 2008 | Col | Professional tennis player | |
| Mamadi Diakite | 2020 | | Professional basketball player | |
| Daryl Dike | | | Professional soccer player and U.S. men's national team player | |
| Bill Dudley | 1942 | Education | Professional football player and NFL Hall of Fame | |
| Jeffrey Eggleston | 2007 | | Long-distance runner | |
| Carlton Elliott | | | Professional football layer with the Green Bay Packers | |
| Paul Ereng | 1993 | Col | 1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 800 meters | |
| Alecko Eskandarian | | Col | Major League Soccer #1 overall draft pick, player with D.C. United and U.S. national team | |
| Mustapha Farrakhan Jr. | | | Professional basketball player | |
| D'Brickashaw Ferguson | 2006 | Col | Professional football player with the New York Jets | |
| Tim Finchem | 1973 | | Commissioner of the PGA Tour | |
| Morgan Gautrat | 2014 | | Professional soccer player and member of the US Women's National Soccer Team | |
| Jake Gelof | | | Professional baseball player | |
| Zack Gelof | | | Professional baseball player | |
| Conor Gill | 2002 | Col | Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award; 2002 | |
| Robert Kent Gooch | | | College football player | |
| Jim Grobe | 1975, 1978 | | Head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team | |
| Al Groh | 1967 | Communications | Former head coach of New York Jets, former head coach of Virginia football team | |
| Margaret Groos | | | 1988 U.S, Olympic Trial marathon winner; former world indoor record holder for 5,000 meters | |
| Kyle Guy | | | Professional basketball player with the Sacramento Kings | |
| Brandon Guyer | | | Professional baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays | |
| Darryl Hammond | 1988 | Col | Professional Arena Football League player | |
| John Harkes | | | Professional soccer player and coach | |
| Joe Harris | 2014 | | Professional basketball player | |
| Adam Haseley | | | Professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox | |
| DeAndre Hunter | | | Professional basketball player Atlanta Hawks | |
| Ty Jerome | | | Professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns | |
| Mike Jones | | | Professional wrestler under the names Virgil, Vincent, and Curly Moe | |
| Thomas Jones | | | Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs | |
| Henry Jordan | | | Professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame member | |
| Braxton Key | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Melanie Kok | | | 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist in rowing | |
| Joe Koshansky | | | Professional baseball player | |
| Bowie Kuhn | 1950 | Law | Former commissioner of Major League Baseball | |
| Noel LaMontagne | | | Professional football player | |
| Jeff Lamp | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Sylven Landesberg | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Lesley Lehane | | | Winner of the NCAA and TAC National Championships in cross-country in 1982 | |
| Chris Long | | | Professional football player | |
| Javier López | | | Professional baseball player with the San Francisco Giants | |
| John Loyd | | | College football player and team captain | |
| Wali Lundy | | | Professional football player | |
| Buck Mayer | | | College football player and College Football All-America Team | |
| Tony Meola | 1989 | Col | Professional soccer player and World Cup goalkeeper | |
| Jerome Meyinsse | 2010 | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
| Heath Miller | 2004 | Col | Professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| Eugene Monroe | 2008 | Col | Professional football player with the Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| Herman Moore | 1991 | Col | Professional football player | |
| Shawn Moore | | | Former NFL and CFL player, All–American at UVA | |
| Ed Moses | 2004 | Education | Olympic gold medalist in swimming | |
| Trey Murphy III | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Bret Myers | 2006 | MS | Professional soccer player | |
| Ben Olsen | | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and coach with the D.C. United | |
| London Perrantes | | | Professional basketball player with the Israeli Basketball Premier League | |
| John Phillips | | | Professional football player | |
| Shamek Pietucha | 1999 | Col | Olympic swimmer | |
| John Beverly Pollard | | | College football player and coach | |
| Sonny Randle | 1958 | | Professional football player | |
| Claudio Reyna | | Non-degreed | Professional soccer player and captain of U.S. national team | |
| LaRoy Reynolds | | | Professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons | |
| Mark Reynolds | | | Professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals | |
| Eppa Rixey | 1912 | Col | Professional baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame member | |
| Chris Rotelli | 2003 | | Professional lacrosse player | |
| Jake Rozhansky | | | Professional soccer player | |
| Ralph Sampson | 1983 | Col | NBA #1 draft pick, professional basketball player, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | |
| Becky Sauerbrunn | | | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team | |
| Matt Schaub | 2003 | Col | Professional football player with the Houston Texans | |
| Michael Schwimer | 2008 | | Professional baseball player with the Philadelphia Phillies | |
| Mike Scott | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Marial Shayok | | | Basketball player in the NBA and the Israeli Premier Basketball League | |
| Don Shula | | | Professional football head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins | |
| Chris Slade | 1993 | Col | Professional football player with the New England Patriots | |
| Michael Slive | 1965 | Law | Former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference | |
| Devin Smith | | | Professional basketball player | |
| Emily Sonnett | 2015 | Col | Professional soccer player and member of the US women's national team | |
| Dawn Staley | 1992 | Col | 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, college basketball coach, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | |
| Chris Taylor | | | Professal baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| Bradley Walker | | | College football coach and referee | |
| DeMya Walker | 1999 | Col | Professional basketball player | |
| George Welsh | | | College football player and coach | |
| Ralph C. Wilson Jr. | | | Founding owner of the Buffalo Bills, namesake of Ralph Wilson Stadium | |
| Monica Wright | 2010 | Col | Professional basketball player | |
| Ryan Zimmerman | 2005 | Col | Professional baseball player with the Washington Nationals | |
| Name | Field | UVA position | Notability | References |
| Henry J. Abraham | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Government | Scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law | |
| Bruce Arena | Soccer | Head men's soccer coach | Coached the Virginia Cavaliers to five NCAA championships; head coach of the US national men's soccer team | |
| Silvia Blemker | Biomedical Engineering | Professor | Professor of biomechanical engineering; co-founder and chief scientific officer of Springbok Analytics | |
| Julian Bond | History | Professor | Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; co-founder and first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center | |
| John Bonvllian | Psychology | Associate professor | Pioneer in the field of augmentative and alternative communication | |
| Anna Brickhouse | American Studies | Department director | | |
| James M. Buchanan | Economics | | Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986 | |
| Lester J. Cappon | History | Archivist and professor | Archivist for Colonial Williamsburg | |
| Meredith Clark | Media Studies | Assistant professor | Expert on Black Twitter | |
| Ronald Coase | Economics | | Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 | |
| Martha Derthick | Public Administration | Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs | Consummate authority on the Social Security Administration | |
| Robert E. Emery | Psychology | Professor and director of the Center for Children, Families, and the Law | | |
| William Faulkner | English | Writer in residence | Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949; Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in 1954 and 1962 | |
| Elmer L. Gaden | Biochemistry | Wills Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering | Known as the "father of biochemical engineering" | |
| Alfred G. Gilman | Pharmacology | Assistant professor | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
| Larycia Hawkins | Political Science | Associate professor in religious studies and political science | | |
| Matthew Holden | Political Science | Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics | Former president of the American Political Science Association; former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin | |
| Thomas M. Humphrey | Economy | | Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | |
| Milton W. Humphreys | Latin and Greek | Professor | | |
| Patricia Jennings | Education | Professor | | |
| David C. Jordan | Political Science | Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics | United States ambassador to Peru | |
| Robert S. Kemp | Business | Ramon W. Breeden Research Professor of Commerce | | |
| Charles W. Kent | English | Professor | | |
| W. A. Lambeth | Medicine | Professor and athletic director | First athletic director at UVA | |
| Jennifer L. Lawless | Political Science | Commonwealth Professor of Politics; faculty affiliate of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy | | |
| Angeline Stoll Lillard | Psychology | Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, professor | | |
| Dumas Malone | History | Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History | Pulitzer Prize for history for his six-volume Jefferson and His Time | |
| Barry Marshall | Medicine | | 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
| Ferid Murad | Biochemistry, Pharmacology | Professor; director, Clinical Research Center; and director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine | 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology | |
| Edward P. Ney | Physics | Assistant Professor | Made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy | |
| Brian Nosek | Psychology | Professor | | |
| Ken Ono | Mathematics | Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics | Expert on Number Theory and Srinivasa Ramanujan | |
| Charlotte Patterson | Psychology | Professor and director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program | Specialist in the psychology of sexual orientation | |
| Shayn Peirce-Cottler | Biomedical Engineering | Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Enginering | | |
| Andrea L. Press | Media Studies and Sociology | William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology | | |
| William B. Quandt | Political Science | Professor in the Department of Politics | Member of the National Security Council involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty | |
| William Barton Rogers | Philosophy | Department head and faculty | Founded MIT and became its first president | |
| Richard Rorty | Philosophy | Kenan Professor of Humanities | Influential writer | |
| Larry Sabato | Political Science | Professor of politics; founder and director of the Center for Politics | Named the "Most Quoted College Professor in the Land" by the Wall Street Journal | |
| James D. Savage | Political Science | Professor of politics; faculty affiliate of the Batten School | Author and specialist in comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy | |
| Antonin Scalia | Law | Professor | Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Natasha Sheybani | Biomedical Engineering | Assistant professor | First UVA recipient of NCI Predoctoral-to-Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award | |
| William D. Spotnitz | Medicine | Cardiothoracic surgeon, University of Virginia Health System | Researcher in the use of fibrin glue | |
| Herbert Stein | Economics | A. Willis Robertson Professor | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford | |
| Peter Taylor | English | | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987; PEN/Malamud Award in 1993 | |
| George Tucker | Philosophy | Professor of Moral Philosophy | Early biographer of Thomas Jefferson and member of the U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Eric Turkheimer | Psychology | Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology | Specialist in how genes and environments shape the development of human behavior | |
| Siva Vaidhyanathan | Media Studies | Robertson Professor of Media Studies | Permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate | |
| Jerry White | Business Administration | Professor of Practice; adjunct faculty of the Politics Department | CEO of Global Impact Strategies Inc.; co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Stephen K. White | Political Science | James Hart Professor of Politics | | |
| Bruce A. Williams | Media Studies | Professor of Media Studies | | |
| Daniel T. Willingham | Psychology | Professor and director of Graduate Studies | Specialist in cognition related to K–12 education | |
| Timothy Wilson | Psychology | Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology | Author of popular books | |
| Tibor Wlassics | Italian | Kenan Professor of Italian Studies | Research on the poet Dante Alighieri | |
| Brantly Womack | Political Science | Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs | | |