List of Hampden–Sydney College alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Hampden–Sydney College, including graduates and non-graduates. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The Alumni Association of Hampden–Sydney College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying alumni. Currently, Hampden-Sydney has an estimated 8,000 living alumni.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Arts media and entertainment

Business
  • John M. Burge: Director Lazard Asset Management, New York City[10]
  • David Camden: president SunTrust Bank-Savannah, Georgia region[11]
  • E. Rhodes Carpenter: founder of the Carpenter Company, leading manufacturer of urethane foams; class of 1929[12]
  • Robert Citrone: billionaire hedge fund manager of Discovery Capital Management; part owner of Pittsburgh Steelers; Class of 1987[13]
  • James Cook: senior vice president of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF) and Delta Capital Management; co-founder of Aurora Russia Limited[14]
  • H. Hiter Harris: cofounder and principal of Harris Williams and Co., largest middle market investment bank; Class of 1983
  • Steven T. Huff: Chairman of TF Concrete Forming Systems; owner of Pensmore; Class of 1973[15]
  • Maurice Jones: Rhodes Scholar; former deputy Secretary of HUD; former Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the State of Virginia; Class of 1986[16]
  • Sekou Kaalund: Managing director JP Morgan, New York[17]
  • Camm Morton: real estate developer, investment banker; former president of Western Development, originator of the Mills retail concept; former president of Factory Outlet Stores; co-founder of VR Business Brokers
  • Jim Mullens: managing director of the Bundy Group, a leading regional investment bank[18]
  • Alphonso O'Neil-White: First African-American student at the college; Chairman of the Board (retired) of Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Class of 1972[19]
  • Bob Ramsey: cfo of BankMobile, a top 15 US banking corporation
  • William Lawrence Scott: industrialist; president of two railroad companies including the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad
  • Warren Thompson: Founder and CEO of Thompson Hospitality, a top twenty African-American owned business; Class of 1981[20]
  • William Toomey: president BB&T Bank for the central Texas region[21]
  • Litz Van Dyke: ceo of Carter Bank and Trust; Class of 1986[22]

Education

Law and politics
  • George M. Bibb: Chief Justice of Kentucky; U.S. Senator from Kentucky; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Class of 1791
  • Thomas S. Bocock: Speaker of the Confederate House; Class of 1838[30]
  • William Henry Brodnax: General of Virginia militia during the Nat Turner Rebellion; Virginia legislator, abolitionist; class of 1804 or 1805[31]
  • William H. Cabell: Governor of Virginia; judge on Virginia Supreme Court; Class of 1789[32]
  • Dabney Carr; lawyer, author, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court(1824-1837)
  • William Crawford: lawyer; U.S. attorney; member of Alabama senate; U.S. district and circuit judge[33]
  • James Crowell: former Director of the Executive Office of the U. S. Attorneys; current associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • William Daniel: Virginia House of Delegates; judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; Class of 1826
  • Clement C. Dickinson: Missouri state senator; United States Representative from Missouri; class of 1869
  • John Wayles Eppes: United States Representative and Senator; Class of 1786
  • John A. Field Jr.: United States Federal Judge; Class of 1932
  • Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy: West Virginia State Senator and lawyer; Class of 1868
  • Thomas S. Flournoy: United States Representative and Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War
  • Hamilton Rowan Gamble: Missouri state legislator; presiding judge in state supreme court; provisional (Unionist) governor of Missouri
  • William Branch Giles: Member of both houses of Congress; Governor of Virginia; Class of 1791
  • Henry Bell Gilkeson: West Virginia Senator, West Virginia House of Delegates member, and Principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind
  • John Gill Jr.: attorney; Maryland state delegate; police commissioner of Baltimore; U.S.representative
  • Jim Harrell: North Carolina legislator
  • William Henry Harrison: Ninth president of the United States; Class of 1791
  • Eugene Hickok: U.S. Under Secretary of Education; Acting Deputy Secretary of Education; former Secretary of Education of Pennsylvania; founding member and former chairman of the Education Leaders Council; Class of 1972
  • William A. Hocker: attorney; member Florida legislature; justice of state Supreme Court (1903-1915)[34]
  • Roszell (Rod) Hunter: attorney; former senior director US National Security Council[35]
  • Charles Hurt: Former D.C. bureau chief for the New York Post; current opinion editor for the Washington Times; Class of 1995
  • Robert Hurt: former Congressman for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District; former member of the Virginia Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates; Class of 1991
  • Thomas M. Jackson Jr.: president of the Virginia Board of Education; former member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Class of 1979
  • William Giles Jones: attorney; member of Alabama legislature; US district court judge[36]
  • Jim Jordan: former campaign manager for presidential candidate John Kerry; Class of 1983
  • John Thornton Knight: Brigadier General; Commandant of Cadets at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Chief Quartermaster, A.E.F; Class of 1880
  • Monroe Leigh: classicist; attorney; chief legal advisor to the State Department; US member International Court of Arbitration,The Hague; Class of 1940
  • Thomas W. Ligon: Maryland delegate; U.S. Representative; Governor of Maryland; Class of 1830
  • Jonathan Martin: the national political correspondent for the New York Times ; Class of 1999[37]
  • Elisha E. Meredith: Virginia state senator; United States Representative
  • W. Tayloe Murphy Jr. : lawyer, state delegate, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources 2002-2006[38]
  • Rod O'Connor: EVP Europe for AEG Facilities; Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Energy; CEO of the 2000 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions; political aide to Vice President Gore; trustee of X Prize Foundation; Class of 1992
  • Chris Peace: member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 97th District; Class of 1998
  • William Ballard Preston: U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1849–1850; U.S. House of Representatives, 1847–1849; author of the "Preston Resolution", the bill of Virginia's secession; Class of 1824[39]
  • Paul Reiber: Chief Justice of the Vermont State Supreme Court; Class of 1970[40]
  • Robert Christian Rickers: Treasurer of Lunenburg County Virginia; Class of 1999
  • Alexander Rives: Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court; Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia; Class of 1825
  • William Cabell Rives: U.S. Representative from Virginia; U.S. Senator; Minister to France; Confederate Representative; attended but did not graduate
  • William Prescott Mills Schwind: attorney; partner at Fulbright & Jaworski; Class of 1993
  • W. Sydnor Settle: retired partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett; Class of 1955
  • Julious P. Smith Jr.: CEO of Williams Mullen; Class of 1965
  • William B. Spong Jr.: U.S. Senator from Virginia; Class of 1941
  • William M. "Bill" Stanley Jr. Senator, Virginia State Senate 2011-current; Trial Attorney, Franklin Co. Virginia, Class of 1989
  • John W. Stevenson: attorney; member of both houses of the US Congress; 25th governor of Kentucky; attended 1828-1830
  • Robert Strange: U.S. Senator from North Carolina; author of Eoneguski ("the first North Carolina novel"); Class of 1814
  • John Leighton Stuart: U.S. Ambassador to China, 1946–1949; President, Yenching University, Beijing, 1919–1946; Class of 1896
  • Paul S. Trible Jr.: Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Virginia; current president of Christopher Newport University; Class of 1968
  • Lee Trinkle: Governor of Virginia 1922-26; Class of 1896
  • Abraham B. Venable: United States representative and senator from Virginia, first president of the First National Bank of Virginia
  • Charles "Casey" Viser: superior court judge in North Carolina[41]
  • Leighton D. Yates Jr.: partner at Holland and Knight (Orlando); Class of 1968
  • James R. Young: first North Carolina insurance commissioner, 1899-1921
  • W. James Young: attorney; Staff Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.; Class of 1986[42]

Others
  • William D. Bunch: lawyer; Major General—assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the US Air Force; class of 1987[43]
  • Royall E. Cabell: the Commissioner of Internal Revenue(1909-1913)
  • MSG Matt Eversmann: Army Ranger who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu; portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the film Black Hawk Down; Class of 1988 (did not graduate due to enlistment in the Army, but was awarded an honorary degree in August 2000)[44]
  • Robert E. Livingston Jr.: Adjutant General of South Carolina ; Class of 1978

Religion
  • Thomas Atkinson: Third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; one of the ten bishops who joined to found the University of the South: Sewanee; founder of Saint Augustine's University; Class of 1825[45]
  • Robert Lewis Dabney: Theologian; Chief of Staff for Stonewall Jackson; biographer of Jackson; Confederate Army Chaplain; attended circa 1835-1836, graduated from the University of Virginia
  • Edward Baptist: Reverend; one of the co-founders and first instructor of University of Richmond; Class of 1813[46]
  • Henry H. "Chip" Edens III: Rector of Christ Church Episcopal, Charlotte, North Carolina; Class of 1992
  • William Henry Foote: Presbyterian minister and historian; Doctor of Divinity from Hampden–Sydney College in 1847; served on its Board of Trustees 1851-1870[47]
  • Robert Atkinson Gibson: sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia (1902–1919)
  • Nimrod Hughes: Theologian, pamphleteer, land speculator; published sensationalist visions of an apocalyptic event in June 1812 which was discussed in the correspondence of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Taylor of Caroline; Class of 1794[48][49][50]
  • A. Heath Light: Fourth Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Southwest Virginia; Class of 1951
  • Frank Clayton "Clay" Matthews: Bishop for the Office of Pastoral Development for the Episcopal Church, formerly Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; Class of 1970
  • William R. Moody: third Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington; founder of the Washington School of Religion; Class of 1922.
  • Charles Clifton Penick: Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Bishop of Cape Palmas, West Africa (1825–1914)
  • J. Dwight Pentecost: Christian theologian known for his book Things to Come; Distinguished Professor of Bible Exposition, Emeritus, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1955-2014; Class of 1937
  • Francis A. Schaeffer: Theologian, philosopher, Presbyterian pastor; known for writings and establishing the L'Abri community in Switzerland; author of A Christian Manifesto; Class of 1935
  • Spenser C.D. Simrill: Dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Class of 1970
  • V. Neil Wyrick: pastor, prominent Christian author and actor

Science and medicine

Sports

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