Wake Forest University alumni

American actor

United States Senator from North Carolina from 2005 to 2023

American politician (1921–2008)

John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.

American physician and NASA astronaut

American mathematician (1938-)

American actor

United States Senator from North Carolina since 2023

American relationship counselor, author and radio host

Indian film actor, model, entrepreneur, and television presenter

Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church

American television correspondent, model, Miss USA 2019 (1991–2022)

10th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and white supremacist writer (1864–1946)

American politician (born 1958)

American actor

American artistic gymnast

American writer

American lawyer

American politician (1873–1946)

United States general (1895-1948)

American triathlete

American voice actor, writer, and producer (born 1970)

American politician (1888-1949)

American actor

American businessman

American senator for North Carolina (1854-1940)

American politician (1906-1986)

American diplomat (1912–1990)

American writer (1894–1968)

American politician

writer, actress and producer

American politician (1890–1972)

American journalist and professor

Chair of the Republican National Committee since 2024

American politician

American politician (1869-1921)

American politician (1866-1924)

American poet (1926–2001)

American YouTuber, video blogger, sex educator, and activist.

American politician (1861-1916)

Ghanaian historian (born 1962)

American politician

American baseball player (1919–2007)

American politician (1869–1923)

American chief executive and diplomat (born 1957)

North Carolina politician; Silver Star and Purple Heart recipient (1890–1964)

American politician

American politician (1873-1958)

American politician (1924-2009)

American politician (1936-2018)

American pastor (1854–1925)

American physician, Florida Surgeon General

American judge

Baptist New Testament scholar (1863 – 1934)

Confederate Army officer and American politician (1828-1892)

American academic

American politician (1872-1955)

career member of the Senior Foreign Service; Ambassador of the United States to Lithuania, 2020–

American politician (1823–1891)