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Famous UF alumni include:
- Stephanie Abrams, meteorologist, The Weather Channel
- John Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer
- Lawton Chiles, former governor of Florida and former U.S.
senator
- Kate DiCamillo, Children's novelist
- Faye Dunaway, Academy Award winning actress
- Jonathan Demme, Academy Award winning director of Silence of the Lambs
- Buddy Ebsen, actor, best known as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies
- Rich Fields, announcer of The Price Is Right, radio personality
- Bob Graham, governor, senator, and presidential candidate
- Rex Grossman, quarterback for the Chicago Bears
- Darrell Hammond, comedian, Saturday Night Live
- Carl Hiaasen, novelist and Miami Herald columnist
- Spessard Holland, governor, senator, namesake of Holland & Knight
- Joseph Kittinger, famed pilot, best known for his high-altitude
balloon flights and parachute jumps
- Fred Levin, prominent attorney, namesake of the Levin College of Law at the
University of Florida
- Jamie McIntyre, senior
Pentagon correspondent for CNN
- Marshall Nirenberg, Nobel Prize winner in medicine and
physiology
- Stephen Root, actor, best known as Milton in the Mike Judge comedy
classic Office Space
- Forrest Sawyer, anchorman,
ABC News
- Joe Scarborough, former congressman and MSNBC talk show host
- Elfi
Schlegel-Dunn, sports/gymnastics commentator for NBC
- George A. Smathers, former U.S. senator and presidential
candidate
- Emmitt Smith, former professional football player, Super Bowl MVP,
NFL's all-time leading rusher
- Steve Spurrier, former Florida Gators quarterback and
national-championship winning head coach, 1966 Heisman Trophy
winner
- Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas, namesake of Wendy's Restaurants and daughter of Wendy's founder Dave
Thomas
- John Titor, author and purported time traveler
- Bob Vila, home-improvement guru and former host of This Old House
- Danny Wuerffel, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, led the Florida Gators to the 1996 National Championship, former NFL
player
The University of Florida has more of its graduates in the United States Congress than any other university or college in the country - currently nine alumni
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