Clarence Leon Brown (1910) directed or produced 53 films, nine of which won Academy Awards. Brown and his wife, Marian, donated $12 million to the university’s theater department. The Clarence Brown Theater at UT in Knoxville is named in his honor.
Brown was posthumously awarded the University of Tennessee Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009.

Lindsay Young (1935) was a Knoxville philanthropist. He was honored by UT with its Volunteer of the Year award in 2002.

C. Bowden Wyatt attended UT from 1935-1939, and was a UT football All America in 1938 and head football coach of the Volunteers from 1955 to 1962. He was national Coach of the Year in 1956.

George Robert “Bob” Woodruff (1939) was men’s athletic director at UT in Knoxville from 1963 to 1985. He was former head football coach at Baylor and at the University of Florida. A member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, he died in 2001.

Anna Catherine Wiley, who attended UT from 1895 to 1897, was an artist. Her paintings have been exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, and Cincinnati Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, owns one of her paintings.

Joseph Walker McSpadden graduated from UT in the 1890s. He was a prolific author. He is best known for his Robin Hood (1891) and succeeding tales of Robin Hood, but among his other publications are Opera Synopses (1920), Shakesperian Synopses (1923), Stories from Great Operas (1923), California: A Romantic Story for Young People (1926), Boys’ [...]

Richard Marius (1954) was an author and director of the expository writing program at Harvard University. His Thomas More was nominated for a National Book Award.

May Justus attended summer courses in 1923, 1929, 1930, 1934, and 1938. She completed UT correspondence courses in 1929, 1930, 1934, 1935, and 1936. She was also enrolled in courses during the spring term for teachers in 1935. She was the author of 65 books for children and others. Five of her books published in [...]

James M. Hightower attended UT in Knoxville from 1927 to 1929. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1952.

John Netherland Heiskell (1893) was publisher and editor of the Arkansas Gazette from 1902 to 1972. Under his leadership, the Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. He received numerous national awards for journalistic excellence.