Makers of History
Biographical information is current as of 2011.
Emory's Makers of History, identified as part of Emory's 175th anniversary celebrations in 2011, are defined as men and women who have demonstrated some combination of these attributes to an exceptional and memorable degree:
- Ethical engagement and adherence to a moral path
- Courageous leadership in behalf of the greater community or environment
- A legacy of imparting knowledge to others or of seeking new wisdom that has had a broader positive impact
- Significant contributions to the life of Emory through continual involvement with the university or by making Emory better known nationally and abroad
Learn more about individuals listed by clicking on their names.
The Makers of History are presented here in categories four periods of Emory's history:
- 1836 - 1914: Founding of Emory College to Founding of the Candler School of Theology
- 1915 - 1947: Chartering of Emory University to End of the Pre-Research University
- 1948 - 1978: Granting of Emory's First PhD degree to Pre-Woodruff Gift
- 1979 - 2001: Woodruff Gift to Emory's 175th Anniversary
Name |
Highlights |
| Young John Allen 1858C | Missionary to China; Translator; Educator |
| Tommie Dora Barker 1909G 1930H | Founding Dean of Library School |
| Alben W. Barkley 1900C 1949H | 35th Vice President of the United States |
| Catherine "Miss Kitty" Andrew Boyd | Enslaved African American |
| Marion Luther Brittain 1886C 1928H | President of Georgia Tech |
| F. Phinizy Calhoun Sr. 1904M 1954H | Ophthalmology Pioneer; School of Medicine Faculty Member |
| Asa Griggs Candler | Founder, The Coca-Cola Company; Philanthropist; Emory Board Chair |
| Charles Howard Candler Sr. 1898C 1942H | President, The Coca-Cola Company; Emory Board Chair |
| Warren Akin Candler 1875C 1935H | President and later Chancellor of Emory; Methodist Bishop |
| Dooley 1899C | Additional degrees | Spirit of Emory; 'Sui Generis' |
| John Emory | Methodist Bishop |
| Ignatius Alphonso Few | Founding President, Emory College |
| Luther Fischer 1899M | Co-founder, Crawford Long Hospital (now Emory University Hospital Midtown) |
| Atticus Greene Haygood 1859C 1870H | President of Emory College |
| Isaac Stiles Hopkins 1858C 1883H | President of Emory; First President of Georgia Tech |
| L.Q.C. Lamar 1845C | U.S. Senator; U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice |
| Dumas Malone 1910C 1936H | Jefferson Biographer; Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Kemp Malone 1907C 1936H | Medievalist |
| Arthur J. Moore 14C 1934H | Methodist Bishop |
| Howard W. Odum 1904C 1931H | Sociologist |
| Thomas M. Rivers 1909C 1936H | Father of Modern Virology |
| Goodrich C. White 1908C 1965H | President, Emory University |
| George L.P. Wren 1859C | Emory Diarist |
| Yun Ch'i-Ho 1893C 1908G | First International Student; Author of Korean National Anthem |
Name |
Highlights |
| Woolford B. Baker 1920G | Biology Professor; Early Emory Environmentalist |
| Jack Boozer 1940C 1942T | Professor of Religion |
| Henry L. Bowden 1932C 1934L 1959H | Attorney; Board Chair during Desegregation |
| Ralph 1940B & Russell Bridges 1933B | Emory Athletes and Creators of Bridges Award |
| Henry Morton Bullock 1924C 1925T | Historian of Emory |
| Patricia Collins Butler 1931L | Attorney; Founder of the Supreme Court Historical Society |
| Ely R. Callaway Jr. 1940C 1996H | Entrepreneur |
| James V. Carmichael 1933C 1934L | Attorney; Businessman |
| Grady E. Clay 1938C 1986H | Journalist; Writer |
| John B. Cobb Jr. 1943Ox 1956H | Theologian |
| Ernest Cadman Colwell 1923C 1927T 1944H | President, University of Chicago; Founding Director, Emory's Institute of Liberal Arts |
| George S. Craft 1931C 1974H | Dean of Business School |
| R. Howard Dobbs Jr. 1927C 1976H | Atlanta Businessman; Emory Trustee; Philanthropist |
| Earl Dolive Sr. 1940B | Businessman |
| James Dombrowski 1923C | Civil Rights Activist |
| Virgil Y.C. Eady 1936G | Dean, Oxford College |
| Arthur Hollis Edens 1928C 1938G 1949H | President, Duke University |
| Cherry L. Emerson 1938C 1939G 1994H | Chemist; Philanthropist |
| Neal Bond Fleming 1933C 1936T | Dean, Oxford College |
| Eléonore Raoul Greene 1920L 1979H | First Woman to Enroll at Emory |
| John A. Griffin 1935C 1938G 1993H | Civil Rights Activist |
| Moses Hadas 1922C 1956H | Scholar of the Classics |
| Max R. Hall 1932C 1995H | Author; Editor at Harvard University Press |
| Louis R. Harlan 1943C 1986H | Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| William Earnest "Ernie" Harwell 1940C | Legendary Sportscaster |
| Edith Folsom Honeycutt 1939N | Nurse Leader |
| Ben F. Johnson Jr. 1936C 1940L 2005H | Dean of Law School during Desegregation |
| Boisfeuillet Jones 1934C 1937L 1982H | Emory Administrator; Developed The Emory Clinic |
| Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones 1929L | Only Winner of Grand Slam in Golf |
| Howard R. Lamar 1945C 1975H | Historian; President, Yale University |
| Charles T. Lester 1931Ox 1933C 1934G | Chemistry Faculty Member; Dean |
| R. Bruce Logue 1934C 1937M | Pioneering Cardiologist |
| James A. Mackay 1940C 1947L 1986H | Congressman; Environmentalist |
| H. Prentice Miller 1927C 1928G | Dean of Alumni |
| Mary Lynn Morgan 1943D | Pediatric Dentist; Trustee; Supporter of the Arts |
| Arnall Patz 1943C 1945M 1985H | Ophthalmology Researcher |
| David M. Potter 1932C 1957H | Historian; Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| J. Marvin Rast 1918C 1929T | Author of Alma Mater Lyrics |
| E. Hebert Rece 1925G | Dean of Students |
| Ferrol Sams 1945M 1990H | Physician; Novelist |
| Thomas Fort Sellers 1932M 1960H | Director, Georgia Department of Public Health |
| Edward J. Shea 1944G | Swim Coach |
| Henry King Stanford 1936C 1940G 1961H | President of Five Colleges & Universities |
| Eugene A. Stead Jr. 1928C 1932M 1968H | Founder, Duke University Physician Assistant Program |
| Kiyoshi Tanimoto 1940T 1986H | Theologian; Founder, Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation |
| Randolph W. Thrower 1934C 1936L 1984H | Tax Lawyer; IRS Commissioner |
| J. Pollard Turman 1934C 1935L 1973H | Atlanta Business Executive; Trustee |
| Judson C. "Jake" Ward 1933C 1936G | Dean; Vice President; Alumni Leader |
| Emory Williams 1932C | CEO, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. |
| C. Vann Woodward 1930C 1963H | Historian; Pulitzer Prize Winner |
Name |
Highlights |
| Terrence B. Adamson 1968C 1973L | Executive Vice President, National Geographic Society |
| Anthony A. Alaimo 1948L | Federal Judge; Reformer |
| Delores P. Aldridge | First Full-Time African American Faculty Member in Emory College |
| Thomas J. J. Altizer | Theologian; Proponent of "the death-of-God movement" |
| Marvin S. Arrington 1967L | One of First Two African-American Law Graduates |
| W. Daniel Barker 1949B | Director of Hospitals |
| Verdelle Bellamy 1963N | One of First Two African American Graduates |
| Sanford D. Bishop Jr. 1971L | Congressman |
| Dorothy E. Brinsfield 1952MR 1964G | Dean of Students, School of Medicine |
| Thomas E. Bryant 1958C 1962M 1963MR | Doctor; Attorney; Mental Health Advocate |
| M. Lanier "Sonny" Carter 1969C 1973M 1974MR | Astronaut |
| Joseph Maxwell "Max" Cleland 1968G 1979H | U.S. Senator; Administrator of U.S. Veterans Affairs |
| Kenneth Cole 1976C | Fashion Designer; Social Activist |
| Clarence Cooper 1967L | One of First Two African-American Law Students |
| Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans | First Female Emory Trustee |
| Austin M. Ford 1950C | Priest; Founder, Emmaus House |
| Ada Fort | Dean, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing |
| Billy E. Frye 1954G 1956PhD | Provost, later Interim President of Emory University |
| Elizabeth Gambrell 1931G 1946M 1949MR | First Female Student in the School of Medicine |
| James R. Gavin 1970G | Physician; Expert on Diabetes |
| Newt Gingrich 1965C | Speaker of U.S. House |
| Han Wan-Sang 1964G 1967PhD 1999H | Korean Educator; Political Activist |
| Virginia Bales Harris 1971C 1977PH | Public Health Advocate |
| Charles R. Hatcher Jr. | Cardiovascular Pioneer at Emory |
| Susan T. Henry-Crowe 1976T | First Female President of the United Methodist Church's Judicial Council |
| Hamilton Holmes 1967M 1976MR | First African American to Attend the School of Medicine |
| J. Willis Hurst | 30-year Chair of Medicine; Author of 'The Heart' |
| L. Bevel Jones III 1946C 1949T 1997H | Methodist Bishop |
| William N. Kelley 1960C 1963M | Medical Researcher; Leader in Academic Medicine |
| William M. Kelso 1971PhD | Archaeologist |
| Nelia J. 1974T & R. Calvin Kimbrough 1975T | Humanitarians |
| Alan Lacy 1977B | CEO, Sears |
| A. Venable Lawson 1950G | Library Science Division Director |
| Lee Hong-Koo 1957Ox 1959C 1986H | Prime Minister of South Korea |
| Elliott H. Levitas 1952C 1956L | Rhodes Scholar; Congressman |
| Francis A. "Frank" Manley 1952C | Poet; Novelist; Playwright |
| Henry A. Mann 1962Ox 1964C | Architect |
| Kamal A. Mansour 1968MR | Cardiothoracic Surgeon; Humanitarian |
| Charles H. "Pete" McTier 1961B | President, Robert W. Woodruff Foundation |
| Sam Nunn 1961L 1962L 1981H | U.S. Senator |
| Mary Margaret Oliver 1972L | Legislator; Child Advocacy Leader |
| George H. Page 1957C 1990H | Host, PBS 'Nature' |
| Evangeline T. Papageorge 1929G 1937M(H) 1968M 1971M 1975M | First Female Faculty Member in the School of Medicine |
| W. Clyde "Doc" Partin Sr. 1950G 1951G | Director, Emory Athletics; Sports Historian |
| Alicia Philipp 1975C | President, Community Foundation for a Greater Atlanta |
| Catherine E. Rudder 1969C | First Female Executive Director of the American Political Science Association |
| Allie Saxon 1963N | One of First Two African American Graduates |
| Donna Keesler Schwartz 1962C | Philanthropist; Supporter of Arts at Emory |
| Claude F. Sitton 1947Ox 1949C 1984H | Journalist; Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Jane E. Smith 1970G | President & CEO, National Council of Negro Women |
| John W. Stephenson 1970C | President, J. Bulow Campbell Foundation |
| Betty Marie Stewart 1952N | First Woman President, Emory Alumni Association |
| Barbara Brown Taylor 1973C | Priest; Preacher; Author |
| James Turpin 1949C 1951T 1955M | Founder, Project Concern International |
| H. Kenneth Walker 1956Ox 1958C 1963M 1970MR | Doctor; Established First Pediatric Emergency Room in Republic of Georgia |
| James M. Wall 1949C 1955T 1985H | Editor, 'The Christian Century' |
| Dwight "Ronnie" Weathers 1960C 1962D 1966D 1966DR | Dean, School of Dentistry |
| Nanette K. Wenger 1959MR | Chief of Cardiology, Grady Memorial Hospital |
| James B. Williams 1955C 1904H | CEO, SunTrust Banks |
| Asa Yancey | First African American Doctor at Grady Memorial Hospital |
Name |
Highlights |
| Zain Ahmed 1908C | Founder of Global Health, Education and Economic Development, Inc. |
| Thurbert E. Baker 1979L | Georgia Attorney General |
| Michael C. 1989H and Thalia N. Carlos | Business Leader; Philanthropists |
| Jimmy Carter 1979H | 39th President of the United States |
| Katherine Anne Castor 1988C | Congresswoman |
| Saralyn Chesnut 1994PhD | First full-time director of Office of LGBT Life |
| Dan Costa 2001B; David Roemer 2002B; Ajay Pillarisetti 2003B 2007PH; and Vijay Makar 2002B | Founders, Campus MovieFest |
| John Lloyd Cromartie 1964C 1988T | Attorney; Minister |
| Ali P. Crown 1985C | Founding Director, Center for Women at Emory |
| Harrison Dillon 1993C & Jonathan Wolfson 1993C | Founders, Solazyme |
| Julia Voorhees Emmons 1973G 1984PhD | Executive Director, Atlanta Track Club |
| William H. Foege 1986H | Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Executive Director, The Carter Center |
| William H. Fox 1979PhD | Dean, Campus Life |
| Erik A. Fyfe 2006C | Developer of Emory's Biofuel Program |
| Eugene J. Gangarosa | Global Health Faculty Member |
| Debbie Genzer 1982C & Wendy Rosenberg Nadel 1982C | Founders, Volunteer Emory |
| Roberto C. Goizueta 1990H | CEO, The Coca-Cola Company; Philanthropist |
| Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze 1993B | Investment Banker; Prime Minister of Republic of Georgia |
| Beverly Guy-Sheftall 1984PhD | Professor, Spelman College |
| Bill Haslam 1980C | 49th Governor of Tennessee |
| Charles C. Haynes III 1971C 1985PhD | Civil Rights Activist |
| Twilla Haynes 1980N | Humanitarian; Nurse |
| Arthur L. Kellermann 1980M | Founding Chairman of Department of Emergency Medicine |
| Arthur B. Keys 1992T | Founder of International Relief and Development |
| James T. Laney 1994H | President, Emory University; U.S. Ambassador |
| Christian P. Larsen 1980C 1984M 1991MR | Head of Transplant Program; Chair of Surgery |
| Dennis Liotta, Ray Schinazi & Woo-Baeg Choi | Inventors of Emtriva, AIDS Medication |
| Deborah E. Lipstadt | Historian of the Holocaust |
| Michael L. Lomax 1984G | CEO, the United Negro College Fund |
| Patricia A. Lottier 1984PH | CEO, 'Atlanta Tribune' |
| Renelda Mack 1983C | Founder, Emory Cares |
| Duncan L. Niederauer 1985B | CEO, NYSE Euronext |
| James B. O'Neal 1977Ox 1979C | Attorney; Founder, Legal Outreach |
| Thomas Glenn Pelham & Melissa Maxcy Wade 1972C 1976G 1996T 2000T | Successive Barkley Forum Leaders |
| Amy Ray 1986C and Emily Saliers 1985C | Indigo Girls |
| O. Wayne 1986H and Grace Crum Rollins 1995H | Philanthropists |
| Kai Ryssdal 1985C | Host, NPR's 'Marketplace' |
| Leah Ward Sears 1980L | Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| Elizabeth Sholtys 2007C | Founder, Ashraya Initiatve for Children |
| Alvin M. Sugarman 1960B 1988PhD | Rabbi; Community Activist |
| Isam Vaid 1993Ox 1995C 1999PH | Founder, Muslim Student Association |
| William Warren IV 1979M 1982MR | Founder, Good Samaritan Health Center |
| Paula Greenfield Washington 1995PhD | President, the Womentor Group |
| George W. Woodruff 1980H | Philanthropist |
| Nell Hodgson Woodruff | Philanthropist |
| Robert W. Woodruff 1912C 1979H | CEO, The Coca-Cola Company; Philanthropist |