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This article lists notable alumni and students of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.




Art


Notable artists who are alumni and students of VCU School of the Arts.
Diana al-Hadid – sculptor and installation artist (MFA 2005)
Hannah Altman – photographer (MFA 2020)
Trudy Benson – abstract artist (BFA 2007)
James Bumgardner – painter, multimedia artist, RPI, VCU art faculty (BFA 1955)
Tony Cokes – video artist (MFA 1985)
Rose Datoc Dall – painter (BFA 1990)
Tara Donovan – sculptor (MFA 1999)
Torkwase Dyson – painter (BFA 1999)
Joseph Craig English – printmaker (BFA 1970)
Donwan Harrell – fashion designer, founder of Prps and Akademiks (BFA 1989)
Lisa Hoke – sculptor and installation artist (BFA 1978)
Sterling Hundley – illustrator and painter (BFA 1998)
Abby Kasonik – painter (BFA 1998)
Nate Lewis – cut paper sculptor (BS 2009)
Whitney Lynn – sculptor and performance artist (BFA 2004)
Philip B. Meggs – graphic designer and historian of design (BFA 1964, MFA 1971)
Eric Millikin – conceptual, internet, video and performance artist (MFA 2021)
Janice Smith – furniture maker (BFA 1976)
Carol Sutton – painter and sculptor (BFA 1967)
Alice Tangerini – botanical illustrator (BFA 1972)
Alessandra Torres – performance and installation artist (MFA 2006)
Charles Vess – fantasy and comics illustrator (BFA 1974)
Judith Godwin – Abstract painter
Emmet Gowin – Photographer and portraitist
Chino Amobi – Contemporary artist, musician and painter
Fahmida Azim – Pulitzer Prize winning illustrator
Sam Bass – Motorsports artist
Nell Blaine – American landscape painter
Noah Bradley – Fantasy artist known for Dungeons & Dragons
Loryn Brazier – Painter, known for her portraits of Virginia politicians
Lauren Clay – Sculptor known for her large fantasy inspired installations
Daryl Cobb – Children's book illustrator
Tony Cokes – Visual artist and educator
Bonnie Collura – artist known for figurative multi-media sculptures, textiles and installations
Assil Diab – Sudanese graphic designer
Paul DiPasquale –Sculptor known for designing several public sculptures in Virginia, including the Arthur Ashe Monument on Richmond's Monument Avenue and King Neptune on Virginia Beach's boardwalk
Tarfia Faizullah – Poet
Anna Journey – Poet
Jon Pineda – Poet
Kevin Powers – Poet
Ron Smith – Poet
Allison Titus – Poet
Colette Fu – photographer, book artist and paper engineer, known for her pop-up books
Sylvia Harris – graphic designer known for designing the U.S. Census and as a pioneer in social impact design
Sally Heller – Artist known for her large installations
Lisa Hoke – Visual artist known for abstract sculptures
Brian Hubble – American illustrator
Katie Hudnall – Artist known for her woodworking
Sterling Hundley – Illustrator and painter
Michael Kaluta – Comic book artist
Abby Kasonik – Painter
Dawn Kasper – Interdisciplinary artist
Matt Kenyon – New media artist
Ana Ines Barragan King – Founder of the Latin Ballet of Virginia
Mia LaBerge – Oil painter
Abigail Larson – Fantasy artist
Philip B. Meggs – Graphic designer and historian who authored books on graphic design
Wiley Miller – Cartoonist
Ayanah Moor – Conceptual artist
Lois Morrison – Book artist
Charlotte Moss – interior designer, author and philanthropist
Mel Odom – Book cover artist
G. Byron Peck – Mural artist
Alston Purvis – Graphic designer and author
Beatrice Riese – Artist and art collector
Rob G. – Comic book artist
Anne Savedge – Photographic artist
Steve Segal – Pixar animator
Mark Sloan – Museum curator
Janice Smith – Furniture maker
Alice Tangerini – Botanical illustrator
Kevin Tinsley – Comic book illustrator
Phil Trumbo – Art director and graphic designer
Betony Vernon – Jewelry designer




Business


William Gifford – CEO of Altria (BBA)
Christopher Poole – founder of 4chan
Donwan Harrell – Creator of luxury denim line PRPS and designer at Nike,
Norman Sisisky – founder of Petersburg Bottling Company, which became Pepsi (BBA)
Kenneth Sullivan – CEO of Smithfield Foods
Robert Graboyes – American economist and musician
John Graham – Economist and Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
Jeff Ray Clark – Economist specializing in public choice theory
Edward N. Coffman – Accounting Scholar who specialized in its history
Jerry Dipoto – Seattle Mariners baseball executive
Catherine C. Eckel – Behavioral economist
Jenny Hollowell – Music industry executive
Mildred Callahan Jones – Known as the "Flag Lady," she pioneered the decorative flag industry
Carole Ann Klonarides – Art consultant
Angela Patton – CEO of Girls for a Chanbge




Government


Watkins Abbitt, Jr. – member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Chris LaCivita – Senior Advisor to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign
Marilyn Tavenner – Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
Lashrecse Aird – member of the Virginia State Senate
Lamont Bagby – member of the Virginia State Senate
Rosalyn Dance – former member of the Virginia State Senate
Yasonna Laoly – Minister of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia (2014–present)
Nancy McFalane – Former Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina (2011–2019)
Todd Pillion – member of the Virginia State Senate
Will Sessoms – Mayor of Virginia Beach, VA (2008–2018)
Kim Taylor – member of Virginia House of Delegates
Schuyler VanValkenburg – member of Virginia House of Delegates
Justin Wilson – Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia
Rob Wittman – Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia's 1st congressional district
Todd Haymore, Virginia Secretary of Commerce (MBA)
Debra Gardner, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Alan Gross – U.S. Government Contractor arrested in Cuba
Clay Athey – Politician and jurist
Lamont Bagby – State politician from Virginia
Cynthia Ball – State politician from North Carolina
Peter A. Blake – Virginia Secretary of Education
Michael Chapman – Director of Homeland Security for Missouri
Keyanna Conner – Virginia Secretary of Administration
Nikuyah Walker – Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia
Rosalyn Dance – Virginia State Senator
Natalie Edwards – Former senior official at the United States Department of the Treasury
Megan Healy – Virginia Secretary of Labor
Cynthia Eppes Hudson – Deputy Attorney General for Virginia
Anita Josey-Herring – Chief Judge of the Superior Court of Washington D.C.
John W. Marshall – Secretary of Public Safety for Virginia
Adele McClure - Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Nancy McFarlane – Pharmacist and politician
Delores McQuinn – Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Jackson Miller – Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services of Virginia
Todd Pillion – Dentist and State Senator
Javaid Siddiqi – Virginia Secretary of Education
Ronald L. Tillett – Virginia Secretary of Finance
Dietra Trent – Virginia Secretary of Education




Media


Mamé Adjei – runner-up of America's Next Top Model cycle 22
David Baldacci – author, best known for his novel Absolute Power (1996)
Rachel Beanland – author of Florence Adler Swims Forever
Macon Blair – actor and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning filmmaker, known for his collaborations with Jeremy Saulnier
Reilly Brown – comic book illustrator and writer, known for his work on Cable & Deadpool
Caressa Cameron – 2010 Miss America
Paris Campbell Grace – TikToker, singer, and comedian
Daryl Cobb – author, national children's educational presenter
Chad L. Coleman – actor
Andrea Detwiler – 2006 Daytime Emmy winner
Stephen Furst – actor and director, known as "Flounder" in the National Lampoon classic Animal House (1978) as well as TV series St. Elsewhere and Babylon 5
Jason Butler Harner – Broadway, television, and film actor; performed in original production of Coast of Utopia; was in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated film Changeling
Bilal Khan – Pakistani singer and actor
Zachary Knighton – actor, ABC series Happy Endings
Boris Kodjoe – actor, model
Robert Lanham – author, best known for his book The Hipster Handbook (2003)
Valerie LaPointe – director and storyboard artist for Pixar Animation Studios
Debbie Matenopoulos – TV host, known for co-hosting ABC's The View, The Daily 10, and TV Guide Channel's The Screening Room
Wiley Miller – cartoonist and author of the comic strip Non Sequitur
Caelynn Miller-Keyes – runner-up Miss USA 2018, Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise contestant
Trevor Moore – comedian and founding member of The Whitest Kids U' Know
Howard Owen – journalist, author of crime fiction and the novel Littlejohn
Jay Pharoah – comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member
Jon Pineda – award-winning poet and novelist
Christopher Poole, aka moot – founder of 4chan
Kevin Powers – novelist and poet, known for The Yellow Birds (2013), a finalist for the National Book Award
Tom Robbins – author, best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Steve Segal – comic artist, animation director
Robb Spewak – producer and radio personality for The Don and Mike Show and The Mike O'Meara Show
Rose Szabo – author of What Big Teeth
Ronnie Sidney II, graphic novelist
Steve Rasnic Tem – horror fiction writer, winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards
Phil Trumbo – film animator, artist
Brandon Wardell – comedian and Twitter personality
Mike Wieringo – comic book artist for Marvel and DC comics; co-creator of Image Comics series Tellos
Greg Barrett – Journalist and public speaker
Cocoa Brown – Actress
Jason Butler Harner – Actor in Ozark
Jennifer A. Johnson - Chief Editor of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society
Zachary Knighton – Actor in Happy Endings
Rebekah McKendry – Film Director




Music


Chino Amobi – experimental electronic musician
Anhayla – singer-songwriter, guitarist
Sam Beam – singer/songwriter known as Iron and Wine
Lucy Dacus – singer-songwriter
Nickelus F – rapper, producer, videographer
GWAR – several founding members of the band
Gordy Haab – composer of the Star Wars video games music and multiple award winner in that genre
Lamb of God – several founding members of the band
Stefan Lessard – bassist for Dave Matthews Band
Matthew Ramsey – songwriter, lead singer for Old Dominion
Nate Smith – drummer, songwriter, producer, and three-time Grammy nominee
Eric Stanley – violinist, composer
Robbin Thompson – singer-songwriter
Steve West – drummer of the indie rock band Pavement and front man for Marble Valley
Chris Adler – Drummer for Lamb of God
Anthony Anderson – Operatic baretone singer
Bruce Bouton – American Country Music guitarist
McKinley Dixon – Rapper and singer
Loston Harris – Jazz pianist
Darius Jones – Saxophonist
Emre Kartari – Turkish jazz percussionist
Matthew Ramsey – Country Music musician known for the band Old Dominion




Science



Arpana Agrawal – psychiatric geneticist and professor of psychiatry, 2018 Theodore Reich Young Investigator Award
Hunter "Patch" Adams – founder of the Gesundheit! Institute and subject of the movie Patch Adams
Baruj Benacerraf – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine, class of 1945
Georgia Chenevix-Trench – researcher who investigates genetic predispositions to cancer
Ann S. Fulcher – abdominal radiologist and chair of the department of radiology at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Medicine
Saul Krugman– medical researcher who discovered a vaccine against hepatitis B
Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D. – virologist
Arpad Vass – research scientist, forensic anthropologist and professor
Patch Adams, M.D., class of 1971
Georgia Chenevix-Trench class of 1985, Ph.D.
Jean Harris, the first African-American student, class of 1955, became Virginia's Secretary of Health and Human Resources.
Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D. class of 1986, Ph.D. class of 1987
Percy Wootton, M.D., class of 1957, past president, American Medical Association
William Chivous Bostic Sr. class of 1905
Meike Bartels – Behavioral geneticist, known for research on the genetics of happiness
Kathleen T. Brady – American psychiatrist
Caroline Orr Bueno (PhD) – social and behavioral sciences researcher specializing in disinformation networks
Brian D'Onofrio – psychologist who researches the causes of psychopathology in children and adolescents
Eduardo D. Rodriguez – Cuban American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and reconstructive transplant surgeon, who is known for his contribution to the field of facial transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation
Dorothy Espelage – American psychologist and expert in teen violence
Philip C. Kendall – Psychologist who produced the Coping Cat program
Feng Liu – Material physicist
Michael L. Madigan – Biomedical engineer
Benjamin Neale – statistical geneticist with a specialty in psychiatric genetics
Sudhir Srivastava – chief of the Cancer Biomarkers Research Group of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the United States NCI




Sports


Mo Alie-Cox – current tight end for the Indianapolis Colts
Yann Bonato – former European professional basketball player; former France National Team member; member of France's silver medal-winning men's basketball team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; played one season (1990–91) at VCU
Troy Daniels – current shooting guard for Olimpia Milano
Andrew Dykstra – MLS goalkeeper for D.C. United; also played with the Chicago Fire in MLS
Treveon Graham – current forward in the G League
Lanto Griffin – current professional golfer on the PGA Tour
Sherman Hamilton – former member of Canadian National Men's Basketball Team; participated in 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Gerald Henderson – played for the Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Seattle SuperSonics, and San Antonio Spurs, winning four NBA championships
Quanitra Hollingsworth – center for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA; member of Turkey's 2012 Olympic women's basketball team
Brandon Inge – MLB infielder, formerly with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics and Detroit Tigers
Sean Marshall – relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
Eric Maynor – played for the Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers
Cla Meredith – former MLB relief pitcher; played for the Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles
Hayley Moorwood – member of New Zealand women's Olympic Soccer Team in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012
Dominic Oduro – current forward for the Columbus Crew in MLS
Juvonte Reddic (born 1992) – basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
John Rollins – professional golfer and PGA pro
Larry Sanders – drafted #15 overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2010 NBA Draft
Gonzalo Segares – former defender for Apollon Limassol in Cyprus; former defender for the Chicago Fire in MLS
Scott Sizemore – infielder for the Oakland Athletics
Justin Tillman (born 1996) – basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Brianté Weber (born 1992) – basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Dave Van Horne – Broadcaster honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame




Other


Mirta Martin (Ph.D. 1996) – ninth president of Fort Hays State University
Grace E. Harris, academic administrator and social worker
Frank E. Grizzard Jr., American Historian
Leona S. Aiken – Psychology Professor
William M. Anderson Jr. (BA) – President of the University of Mary Washington
Nancy Wright Beasley - Author
Errett Callahan - Archeologist
Jack Hranicky - Archeologist
Caressa Cameron - Miss Virginia
Eric H. du Plessis - Author, translator and educator
Susan Higginbotham - American historical fiction author and attorney
Hendrée E. Jones - Researcher on women's substance abuse
Eileen A. Joy - Old English literary specialist
Margaret Ann Neale - Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Sheri Reynolds - Author of contemporary Southern fiction
Howard Owen - Author and winner of the Hammett Prize




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