Who are some famous alumni from Vanderbilt?

Answer 1

Lamar Alexander, John Nance Garner, Al Gore, Jr., Tipper Gore, Supreme Court Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds, Congressman Steve Cohen, David Boaz, John R. Steelman, Senator Theodore Bilbo. Dinah Shore, Rosanne Cash, Amy Grant, and Dierks Bentley. Delbert Mann (B.A. 1941), Tom Schulman (B.A. 1972), actors Molly Sims (B.S. 1995) and Joe Bob Briggs (B.A. 1974). Three U.S. Poet Laureates are Vanderbilt alums: Allen Tate (B.A. 1922), Robert Penn Warren (B.A. 1925), and Randall Jarrell (M.A. 1938). Novelists James Dickey (B.A. 1949) and James Patterson (M.A. 1970). Two well-known sportswriters, Grantland Rice (B.A. 1901) and Fred Russell (B.A. 1927), have a scholarship named after them at the university, and Buster Olney (B.A. 1988) writes for ESPN.com and The New York Times. Journalist David Brinkley attended briefly. Debora Shuger graduated with three degrees (B.A. 1975), (M.A. 1978), and (M.A.T. 1978) Current Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler (B.S. 2005) is also a Vanderbilt alum, only the third to be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft. Three alumni, biochemist Stanford Moore (B.A. 1935), economist Muhammad Yunus (Ph.D. 1971), and Al Gore have won the Nobel Prize.

Answer 2

Amy Grant and Chris Mann both graduated from Vanderbilt University. William Gray Espy also graduated from VU and he is an actor on The Young and The Restless.