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This article lists notable alumni and students of the
Virginia Commonwealth University in
Richmond, Virginia .
Art
Trudy Benson , abstract painter Notable artists who are alumni and students of
VCU School of the Arts .
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
Mark Sloan , curator, author 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
Sylvia Harris , designer of the U.S. Census, and credited as a pioneer in social impact design.
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
Government
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
Author
David Baldacci
Reilly Brown – comic book illustrator and writer, known for his work on
Cable & Deadpool
Caressa Cameron – 2010 Miss America
Daryl Cobb – author,
[9] national children's educational presenter
[10]
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)
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
Actor
Jason Butler Harner
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
[11]
Kevin Powers – novelist and poet, known for
The Yellow Birds (2013), a finalist for the National Book Award
[12]
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
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
Science
Nobel Prize winner
Baruj Benacerraf
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
Physician, actor, activist, author and clown
Patch Adams
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
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