The List of University of Florida faculty and administrators contains people currently and formerly serving the University of Florida as professors, deans, or in other educational capacities.
Academic administrators
edit- Lise Abrams, chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College
- Ruth H. Alexander, former chair to the Physical Education Department at the University of Florida[1]
- Orland K. Armstrong, founded the University of Florida School of Journalism and former member of the United States House of Representatives[2]
- Sharon Wright Austin, director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Florida[3]
- George Burgess, world-renowned shark expert; director of International Shark Attack File[4]
- Roy C. Craven, founding director of the University Gallery and art professor
- David R. Colburn, professor of history and author[5]
- Mary Ann Eaverly, chair of the UF Department of Classics[6]
- Stephanie Y. Evans, former director of the Institute for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University[7]
- Albert J. Farrah, founding dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Mark S. Gold, chairman of Department of Psychiatry and Distinguished Alumni Professor of University of Florida
- Bob Graham, former Florida governor and U.S. senator, founder of Bob Graham Center for Public Service
- Peter E. Hildebrand, director emeritus for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and professor
- Alice C. Jantzen, former chair of the occupational therapy department
- Rudolf Kálmán, director at Center for Mathematical System Theory and mathematical system theorist, winner of IEEE Medal of Honor, and former graduate research professor
- Nazira Karodia, current Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Edinburgh Napier University
- Kathleen S. Kelly, chair of the Public Relations Department
- Thomas Maren, founding father of the University of Florida College of Medicine, inventor of the drug Trusopt
- William McKeen, professor and chairman of Department of Journalism
- Jerald T. Milanich, anthropologist and archaeologist; curator of archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Howard Odum, ecologist; started and directed Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida, founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973
- John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and chairman of Department of Philosophy
- Leland Patouillet, former director of the University of Florida Alumni Association
- Ernest C. Pollard, professor of physics and biophysics; research scholar
- Sam Proctor, American historian, and founder of the oral history program; first UF Historian and Archivist
- Sartaj Sahni, computer scientist and chairman of the CISE department
- Ivan A. Schulman, former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at UF
- Richard L. Shriner, medical director, Shands Vista Psychiatric Hospital
- David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Lee Sweeney, current director of the Myology Institute and professor with the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Malú G. Tansey, current director of UF's Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Martin Uman, leading authority on physics of lightning, director of the UF Lightning Research Laboratory
- Baba C. Vemuri, Director of Laboratory for Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging at University of Florida and professor
- Sarah Whiting, currently director at Princeton University School of Architecture
Presidents and Chancellors
edit- Stan Albrecht, former researcher for University of Florida College of Medicine, former president of Utah State University
- Kern Alexander, former president of Western Kentucky University and Murray State University
- Samuel A. Banks, former president of Dickinson College and the University of Richmond
- George F. Baughman, former president of New College of Florida, former vice president of business affairs for University of Florida
- Leonard Cheng, current president of Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
- Jimmy Cheek, former professor and Chancellor of the University of Tennessee
- Robert G. Frank, former president of the University of New Mexico
- William S. Gaither, former president of Drexel University
- Elizabeth Hoffman, American historian, former president of University of Colorado System, and provost of Iowa State University
- Karen Holbrook, biological scientist, former president of Ohio State University, current vice president of University of South Florida
- Thomas Lyle Martin Jr., former president of the Illinois Institute of Technology
- Robert Mautz, attorney, and former president of State University System of Florida
- Alan Merten, former dean of the College of Business, current president of George Mason University
- Gene Nichol, former law professor, former president of The College of William & Mary
- James L. Oblinger, food scientist, former Chancellor of North Carolina State University
- John H. Owen, former president of the University of North Georgia
- Harry M. Philpott, former president of Auburn University
- Laura Rosenbury, current president of Barnard College and former dean of the Levin College of Law
- Eugene G. Sander, former president of the University of Arizona
- Sheldon Schuster, current president of the Keck Graduate Institute
- Wei Shyy, current president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Betty Siegel, author, former president of University System of Georgia, former dean of academy affairs for continuing education
- Walter L. Smith, former president of Florida A&M University
- Horace E. Stockbridge, former president of North Dakota State University
- Blake R. Van Leer, Former president of Georgia Institute of Technology and dean of UF College of Engineering
- Sophia Wisniewska, former chancellor of University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Pennsylvania State Brandywine
- Lynn Perry Wooten, current president of Simmons University
Provosts and Vice Presidents
edit- Douglas Barrett, professor of pediatrics, former vice president of J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center
- Betty Capaldi, former provost of Arizona State University and professor at University of Florida
- Joseph Glover, current provost and former dean of the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- David Guzick, current vice President of J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center[8]
- Gillian Small, current provost for Fairleigh Dickinson University
Deans
edit- Reza Abbaschian, Iranian/American engineer and former dean of the Bourns College of Engineering
- Joseph Abiodun Balogun, former Dean of the College of Health Sciences at Chicago State University
- Cammy Abernathy, current dean of the University of Florida College of Engineering
- Earl C. Arnold, academic administrator and former dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School
- Jay M. Bernhardt, current dean of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas
- Anthony Catanese, professor of architecture, former dean of the College of Architecture, current president of Florida Institute of Technology
- Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, former dean of University of California, Davis College of Engineering
- Paul D'Anieri, former dean of University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Teresa Dolan, current dean of University of Florida College of Dentistry
- Catherine Emihovich, former dean of University of Florida College of Education
- Isabel Garcia, current dean of the University of Florida College of Dentistry
- Glenn E. Good, current dean of the University of Florida College of Education
- Michael Good, former dean of University of Florida College of Medicine
- Robert Jerry, former dean of University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Dennis Jett, diplomat and academic; former dean of University of Florida International Center
- Pramod Khargonekar, former dean of University of Florida College of Engineering
- Colleen G. Koch, current dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Bruce C. Kone, former dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine and professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- John Kraft, current dean of the Warrington College of Business Administration
- Ralph Lowenstein, former dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
- Michele Manuel, American materials scientist and dean of the University of Pittsburgh College of Engineering
- Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr., former dean of University of Florida College of Engineering, former president of Illinois Institute of Technology
- Roderick McDavis, former dean of University of Florida College of Education, current president of Ohio University
- Diane McFarlin, current dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
- Jon L. Mills, former dean of the Levin College of Law and speaker for the Florida House of Representatives
- Saby Mitra, current dean of the Warrington College of Business
- Eileen Oliver, current interim dean of the University of Florida Division of Continuing Education
- Onye P. Ozuzu, current dean of the University of Florida College of the Arts
- Peter Henry Rolfs, agronomist, former dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Judith Russell, current dean of University of Florida Library System
- Andrew P. Sage, former dean of the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the George Mason University
- Gillian Small, biologist, current dean of research at the City University of New York
- Dennis K. Stanley, former dean of the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance
- Neil Sullivan, current professor of physics, former dean of University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Blake Ragsdale Van Leer, former Dean of Engineering at University of Florida and president of Georgia Tech
- Sarah Whiting, current dean of the Rice University School of Architecture
Athletic Directors
edit- Alfred Buser, 1917–1920
- William Kline, 1920–1923
- James White, 1923–1925
- Everett Yon, 1925–1928
- Charlie Bachman, 1928–1930
- Edgar Jones, 1930–1936
- Josh Cody, 1936–1939
- Tom Lieb, 1940–1945
- Raymond Wolf, 1946–1949
- Bob Woodruff, 1950–1959
- Ray Graves, 1960–1979
- Bill Carr, 1979–1986
- Bill Arnsparger, 1986–1992
- Jeremy Foley, 1992–2016
- Scott Stricklin, 2016–present[9]
Distinguished Professors
edit- Barry Ache, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
- Alan Agresti, Distinguished Professor of Statistics
- Kenneth Berns, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
- George Casella, former Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida
- George Christou, currently the Drago and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida
- Hartmut Derendorf, Distinguished professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Roger Fillingim, Distinguished Professor and psychologist
- Malay Ghosh, Distinguished Professor and Indian statistician
- Jeff Gill, Distinguished Professor of Government
- Mark S. Gold, Distinguished Professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry
- Raphael Haftka, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Peter J. Hansen, Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences
- Arthur F Hebard, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Peter Hirschfeld, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Brian Iwata, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Walter Stephen Judd, Distinguished Professor of Botany
- John R. Klauder, Distinguished Professor, Physics and Math, Department of Physics
- Louis J. Lanzerotti, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Mark Law, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Phil Lounibos, Distinguished Professor of Entomology
- Charles R. Martin, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
- Bruce MacFadden, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology
- Guenakh Mitselmakher, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Leonid Moroz, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
- Brij Moudgil, Distinguished Professor of Material Science
- P. K. Ramachandran Nair, Distinguished Professor of Agroforestry and International Forestry
- Mark Orazem, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Stephen Pearton, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Material Science
- Scott Powers, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Jose Principe, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Ann Progulske-Fox, Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and Program Director
- Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Fan Ren, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Sartaj Sahni, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Kirk Schanze, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
- Pierre Sikivie, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Paul Sindelar, Distinguished Professor of Education
- Douglas E. Soltis, Distinguished Professor with the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor with the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Weihong Tan, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
- David B. Tanner, Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Leslie Thiele, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Martin A. Uman, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Clifford Martin Will, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics
Professors and faculty
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- Richard Adams, English novelist
- Sean Adams, historian who specializes in the history of American capitalism and energy
- Kole Ade-Odutola, poet
- Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, medical biophysicist, structural virologist, and a professor of structural biology
- Rajshree Agarwal, economist
- Ravindra K. Ahuja, computer scientist
- Ronald Akers, criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology and law
- Dolores Albarracín, psychologist, author and professor of psychology
- John Algeo, former assistant dean of the graduate school and professor of English
- Krishnaswami Alladi, Indian-American mathematician who specializes in number theory
- Warder Clyde Allee, zoologist
- Ida Altman, historian of colonial Spain and Latin America
- Terry A. Anderson, journalist
- Dominick Angiolillo, Italian cardiologist
- Lisa Anthony, computer scientist
- Susan C. Antón, biological anthropologist and paleoanthropologist
- George J. Armelagos, anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University
- Donald Ault, Professor of English at the University of Florida
- James H. Austin, neurologist and author
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- Florence Babb, anthropologist, author, and editor
- Stanley Ballard, physicist specializing in optics
- Aida Bamia, professor of Arabic language and literature
- Enoch Marvin Banks, historian
- Turpin Bannister, architectural historian
- Barbara Barletta, classical archaeologist and architectural historian
- Rodney J. Bartlett, Professor of Chemistry and Physics
- Linda Bartoshuk, Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Sciences
- Merle Battiste, chemist and emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida
- Fuller Bazer, animal scientist and Regents Fellow
- Robert de Beaugrande, Professor of English Linguistics
- Leonard Beeghley, sociologist
- Cynthia D. Belar, clinical psychologist
- Steven Albert Benner, molecular biologist
- Kenneth Berns, virologist
- Suresh Kumar Bhatia, chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Thomas S. Bianchi, oceanographer and biogeochemist
- Buster Bishop, physical education professor and coach for the Florida Gators men's golf team
- Karen Bjorndal, biologist
- William T. Blackstone, academic and philosopher
- Meredith Blackwell, mycologist
- David Boger, Australian chemical engineer
- Miklós Bóna, mathematician
- Camille Bordas, French writer
- H. Jane Brockmann, biologist and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- James Broselow, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Babette Brumback, biostatistician known for her work on causal inference
- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, historian
- Stuart Buchanan, voice actor, announcer, and educator
- George H. Burgess, ichthyologist and fisheries biologist with the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Karen C. Burke, legal scholar
- Robert Burne, microbiologist
- David Bushell, Latin American historian, one of the first Americans to study Colombia
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- Robert Cade, co-inventor of Gatorade
- William Calin, senior scholar of Medieval French literature and French Poetry at the University of Florida
- Clay Calvert, mass communications scholar
- Pierre Capretz, Professor of French
- Archie Carr, zoologist, conservationist, and founder of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
- Gwendolen M. Carter, Canadian-American political scientist
- Jean C. Chance, Professor of Journalism
- Colin Chapman, professor and Canada Research Chair in Primate Ecology and Conservation at McGill University
- Raghavan Charudattan, plant pathologist
- Hai-Ping Cheng, Chinese-American physicist
- Shigang Chen, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Paul Chun, professor of thermodynamics
- John Ciardi, etymologist
- Jill Ciment, writer and Guggenheim Fellow
- Ronald A. Cohen, neuropsychologist and Evelyn F. McKnight chair for clinical translational research in cognitive aging and memory
- Theo Colborn, zoologist and environmental health analyst
- Coray Colina, professor of chemistry
- David Copp, Canadian philosopher
- Leela Corman, cartoonist and illustrator
- Robert J. Cousins, nutritional biochemist
- Suzy Covey, comics scholar and former university librarian emerita
- Patricia Craddock, author and professor of English
- Harry Crews, novelist
- Darlena Cunha, freelance journalist, blogger, and writer
- Barbara Curbow, American social/health psychologist
- Florin Curta, Romanian historian, medievalist and archaeologist on Eastern Europe
- Roy Curtiss, microbiologist
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- Robert Dana, poet
- Radhika Ramana Dasa, Vaishnava scholar
- Susmita Datta, professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida
- Manning J. Dauer, political scientist, developed the 1967 reapportionment plan for Florida
- Paul W. Davenport, physiologist
- H. G. Davis Jr., journalist
- Jack E. Davis, environmental history and sustainability studies professor
- Martha Ellen Davis, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist
- Kathleen A. Deagan, archaeologist
- Natalie Dean, biostatistician specializing in infectious disease epidemiology
- George R. Dekle Sr., Legal Skills Professor at the Levin College of Law
- Steven T. DeKosky, medical researcher and academic known for his work in the field of Alzheimer's disease
- Joel S. Demski, accounting researcher and educator
- Stanley Dermott, astronomer
- Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian theoretical chemist
- Donald Dewsbury, comparative psychologist and historian of psychology
- Nils J. Diaz, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- James Dickey, novelist
- William Ditto, biomedical engineer
- Lawrence Dodd, political scientist and Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science
- Ngô Đồng, entomologist and nematologist
- Herbert Grove Dorsey, engineer, inventor and physicist
- Jane Douglas, Professor of Management Communication
- Russell S. Drago, professor of inorganic chemistry
- Lester Dragstedt, surgeon and professor
- Alexander Dranishnikov, Russian-American mathematician
- Daniel C. Drucker, mechanical engineer, known for contributions to the theory of plasticity
- George L. Drusano, physician and medical researcher
- Stewart Duncan, philosopher known for contributions on philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
- Andrea Dutton, geologist
- Boaz Dvir, Israeli-American professor, journalist, and filmmaker
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- Jonathan F. Earle, Professor of Engineering
- Lily Elefteriadou, civil engineer
- William F. Enneking, orthopaedic oncologist
- Dorothy Espelage, psychologist
- Georg Essl, Austrian Computer Scientist and Musician
- John Ewel, biologist
- Katherine Ewel, ecosystem, forest, and wetlands ecologist
- Sheila Eyberg, clinical and health psychologist
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- Charles H. Fairbanks, archaeologist and anthropologist
- Albert Fathi, Egyptian-French mathematician
- Joe Feagin, sociologist and social theorist
- Mark Fenster, attorney and professor with the Levin College of Law
- Richard D. Field, physicist
- Mark Flannery, economist
- Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida
- Jerry G. Fossum, electrical engineer
- Jamie S. Foster, astrobiologist, microbiologist, and academic
- David J. Foulis, mathematician
- Christine A. Franklin, American statistics educator
- Stan Franklin, scientist
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- Robert B. Gaither, mechanical engineer, professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida College of Engineering
- Thomas Gallant, historian who specializes in modern Greek history and archaeology
- J. Matthew Gallman, educator and author of books about nineteenth-century history
- Michael Gannon, historian, former priest and author
- Jeremy Gardiner, contemporary British landscape painter
- Frank Garvan, Australian-born mathematician who specializes in number theory and combinatorics
- Robert Franklin Gates, muralist, painter, and art professor
- Patrick J. Geary, medieval historian
- Alan Dale George, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Geoffrey J. Giles, historian
- Susan D. Gillespie, anthropologist and archaeologist
- Mark S. Gold, researcher and author
- Maureen Goodenow, scientist and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
- Hridayananda das Goswami, Vaishnava philosopher
- Malcolm Grant, former professor and current president of University College London
- Susan Greenbaum, anthropologist
- Debora Greger, poet and visual artist
- David Grove, anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic
- Jaber F. Gubrium, sociologist
- Lillian Guerra, Professor of History and widely published author and speaker
- Louis J. Guillette Jr, former professor of embryology
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- Thomas Louis Hanna, philosopher
- Peter J. Hansen, animal scientist and physiologist
- R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
- Mike Haridopolos, faculty member at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service
- Willis Harman, social scientist and futurist
- George Mills Harper, literary scholar
- Marvin Harris, anthropologist
- Molly Harrower, South African clinical psychologist
- Melissa Hart, actress, singer, and teacher
- Todd Hasak-Lowy, formerly an Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida
- Kenneth Heilman, behavioral neurologist
- Sumi Helal, computer scientist
- Seymour Hess, meteorologist and planetary scientist
- So Hirata, Professor of Chemistry, received the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Kuo-chu Ho, nuclear physicist
- Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., carcinologist
- David A. Hodell, geologist
- Michael Hofmann, German poet
- Norman N. Holland, former literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida
- Noy Holland, writer
- C. S. Holling, Canadian ecologist and winner of the Volvo Environment Prize
- Marjorie Hoy, entomologist and geneticist
- Aparna V. Huzurbazar, statistician
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- Lonnie Ingram, microbiologist and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and Society of Industrial Microbiology
- Brian Iwata, American psychologist
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- Christopher Jermaine, American computer scientist
- Julie A. Johnson, clinical pharmacist and translational scientist
- Suzanne Bennett Johnson, psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association
- Donald Justice, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
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- Lynda Lee Kaid, former Telecommunications and Research Foundation Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications
- Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor
- Gladys Kammerer, political scientist
- Henry Kandrup, astrophysicist and professor at the University of Florida
- John Kaplan, photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Herbert E. Kaufman, ophthalmologist
- Akito Y. Kawahara, American and Japanese entomologist, scientist, and advocate of nature education
- Robert Kennedy, chemist
- Ken Kerslake, archivist and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus for the University of Florida
- Solon Kimball, anthropologist
- Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, former Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Florida
- Harold Corby Kistler, biologist
- Karen Koch, plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida
- Amie Kreppel, American political scientist
- Marvin Krohn, criminologist
- G. Pradeep Kumar, cell biologist and a scientist
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- Elizabeth Lada, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida
- Joseph Ladapo, Professor of Medicine and Surgeon General of Florida
- Jane Landers, historian
- Louis J. Lanzerotti, Professor of Physics
- Jean A. Larson, mathematician; professor at the University of Florida
- Robert Lawless, cultural anthropologist
- David Leavitt, novelist and Professor of English
- David Lee, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1996, and Professor
- Ji-Hyun Lee, statistician
- René Lemarchand, French political scientist
- Dov Levine, American-Israeli physicist
- Tracy R. Lewis, professor of economics
- Jian Li, electrical engineer
- William Link, historian
- Bernard J. Liska, food scientist
- William Logan, poet, critic, and scholar
- Bette A. Loiselle, professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Frank LoMonte, lawyer and journalist
- Ira Longini, biostatistician and infectious disease epidemiologist
- Prakash Loungani, macroeconomist
- Per-Olov Löwdin, Swedish physicist
- Andrew Nelson Lytle, Professor of Literature; helped start the Masters of Fine Arts program at UF
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- Neill W. Macaulay Jr., writer and professor
- Murdo J. MacLeod, Scottish historian of Latin America
- G. S. Maddala, Indian-American economist and mathematician
- John K. Mahon, historian
- William R. Maples, forensic anthropologist; worked with the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Maxine Margolis, anthropologist; American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductee
- A. H. de Oliveira Marques, Portuguese historian
- Anita Marshall, American geoscience education researcher and disability activist
- Maia Martcheva, mathematical biologist
- Ellen E. Martin, paleoceanographer
- Fletcher Martin, painter
- William Clifford Massey, anthropologist
- Marianne Mathewson-Chapman, professor of nursing and retired major general with the Army National Guard
- D. R. Matthews, political scientist and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Janet Snyder Matthews, historian and author
- Walter Mauderli, Swiss professor of Medical physics
- Lisa McElwee-White, Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida
- Irma McClaurin, poet and anthropologist
- Michael P. McDonald, political scientist
- Robert McMahon, international relations expert
- William McRae, lawyer and judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Kenneth Megill, philosopher, trade unionist, social activist, records and knowledge manager
- Jawahar L. Mehta, former Professor of Medicine
- Arnold Mesches, American visual artist
- Amando de Miguel, Spanish sociologist
- Prabhat Mishra, computer-scientist
- Duane Mitchell, physician-scientist and university professor
- Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, legal scholar and current judge with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Rose Mooney-Slater, X-ray crystallography
- John H. Moore, anthropologist and former chair of the Anthropology Department
- Thomas Hill Moore, former commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Jacques Morcos, neurologist and fellow with the University of Florida
- Christopher Mores, American arbovirologist
- Leonid Moroz, neuroscientist
- Charles W. Morris, semiotician and philosopher
- Charles Gould Morton, Professor of Military Science and Major General with the United States Army
- Michael Moseley, anthropologist
- William Murrill, mycologist
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- Stephen Nadeau, behavioral neurologist, researcher and academician
- P. K. Ramachandran Nair, agricultural scientist
- Vasudha Narayanan, scholar of Hinduism at University of Florida and former president of the American Academy of Religion
- DeLill Nasser, geneticist
- Charles Nelson, legal scholar and former U.S. representative from Maine
- Wilmon Newell, entomologist
- Wayne Nicholson, biologist
- Lucy Nulton, educator and folklorist
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- Thomas Oakland, educational psychologist
- Howard T. Odum, ecologist
- Michael S. Okun, neurologist, neuroscientist and author
- James Oliverio, composer of film scores and contemporary classical music
- Neil D. Opdyke, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida
- Ants Oras, Estonian translator and writer
- Paul Ortiz, historian
- George C. Osborn, historian and author
- Harry Ostrer, geneticist
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- Lawrence M. Page, ichthyologist
- John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Florida and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
- Cheryl Palm, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Alfred Browning Parker, Modernist architect
- Karen F. Parker, sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence
- Woodrow McClain Parker, educator, mental health counselor, and author
- Rembert W. Patrick, historian, longtime University of Florida history professor, and author
- Simon Penny, professor in the field of interactive art
- Michael Perfit, geologist
- Anna L. Peterson, scholar of religious studies
- Nicole Leeper Piquero, criminologist
- S. Jay Plager, professor with the Levin College of Law and judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Philip Podsakoff, professor of management
- Ernest C. Pollard, professor of physics and biophysics and an author
- Frank Moya Pons, leading contemporary historian on the Dominican Republic
- Ana Maria Porras, biomedical engineering
- Padgett Powell, novelist
- Donald D. Price, neuroscientist and psychologist[10]
- Jose Principe, bioengineer
- Juliet Pulliam, epidemiologist
- Stuart R. Purser, painter, writer, and academic
- Frank W. Putnam, biologist and author
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- Michael L. Radelet, sociologist
- Anil K. Rajvanshi, Indian engineer
- Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, Indian polymer chemist
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Yearling
- Rachel Rebouché, legal scholar
- George Alan Rekers, psychologist and ordained Southern Baptist minister
- David Reitze, professor of physics
- Albert Rhoton Jr., professor of Surgery
- Albert Ritzhaupt, professor of educational technology and computer science
- David Roberts, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine
- R. Michael Roberts, biologist
- Mary Robison, short-story writer and novelist
- Carlos Rojas, American sinologist and translator
- Subrata Roy, inventor, educator, and scientist
- Yuli Rudyak, professor of mathematics
- Katheryn Russell-Brown, legal scholar
- Darrett B. Rutman, historian
- Mimi Ryan, education instructor
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- Kevin Sabet, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida
- Helen Safa, anthropologist, feminist scholar and academic
- Mohammad Saleem, particle physicist
- David Sappington, economist, academic advisor, and author
- Chih-Tang Sah, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Andrew P. Sage, American systems engineer
- Michelle Samuel-Foo, biologist
- Norman Sartorius, psychiatrist
- Robert Satcher, physician, chemical engineer, NASA astronaut, and fellow with the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Paul Satz, psychologist, and one of the founders of the discipline neuropsychology
- Lawrence Scarpa, architect, educator, leader in sustainable design
- John Schrieffer, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Christine E. Schmidt, American biomedical engineer
- Samuel Sears, psychologist
- Zachary Selden, former Deputy Secretary-General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Associate Professor of international relations
- Leland Shanor, mycologist and botanist
- Wei Shyy, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
- Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, religious scholar
- Robert Singerman, Judaica bibliographer; held the position of University Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries where he was the bibliographer for Jewish Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics
- Susan Sinnott, material scientist
- John C. Slater, physicist; made major contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids
- Laura Sjoberg, international affairs scholar
- Benjamin Smith, political scientist
- Patricia Snyder, sociologist
- Ottón Solís, scholar of Latin American studies
- Richard E. Spear, art historian
- Colette St. Mary, professor and associate chair of the biology department
- Alexander Stephan, specialist in German literature and area studies
- Bill Stern, American botanist and professor
- Evon Streetman, faculty with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
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- Elizabeth J. Tasker, British astrophysicist and science writer
- Bron Taylor, scholar and conservationist
- Erika Moore Taylor, biomedical engineer and scientist
- Mark Tehranipoor, researcher specializing in hardware security
- My T. Thai, computer science engineer and professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department
- Henri Theil, Dutch econometrician
- Michael C. Thomas, entomologist and writer; works for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as a Taxonomic Entomologist, Entomology Section Administrator, and curator of Coleoptera and Orthoptera
- Cynthia K. Thompson, neurolinguist and cognitive neuroscientist
- John G. Thompson, mathematician, Abel Prize and Fields Medal winner
- Charles Thorn, Professor of Physics
- Jalie Tucker, Professor of Clinical Psychology
- James B. Twitchell, author and former professor of English
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- Jerry Uelsmann, photographer
- Stanislaw Ulam, Polish mathematician
- Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English at the University of Florida
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- James Van Fleet, Commander for the University of Florida ROTC Program, commanding General of U.S. Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War
- Carl Van Ness, University of Florida historian and archivist
- Gonda Van Steen, Cassas Chair in Greek Studies
- Manuel Vasquez, Professor of Latin American studies
- Adam S. Veige, Professor of Chemistry
- Johannes Vieweg, Professor of Urology, Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Medicine
- Harald von Boehmer, German immunologist
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- Sidney Wade, poet
- Alexander Wagenaar, professor of health outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Medicine
- Chanequa Walker-Barnes, American theologian and psychologist
- Alexander Doniphan Wallace, professor of mathematics
- Michael Warren, forensic anthropologist
- Count Albert Wass, Hungarian Professor of Literature and History
- James L. Wattenbarger, professor of Education, and Father of the Community College System of Florida
- Robert Wears, medical doctor, professor of emergency medicine, and safety researcher
- Rudolph Weaver, first professor of architecture, first dean of architecture, second architect for Florida Board of Control
- Wilse B. Webb, psychologist and sleep researcher
- Phillip E. Wegner, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English at the University of Florida
- Tan Weihong, chemist
- Colin Welford, Professor of Music, conductor
- John Daniel Wild, philosopher
- Diana J. Wilkie, nurse researcher
- Dudley Williams, physicist and former president of the Optical Society of America
- Hiram D. Williams, painter and professor of art at the University of Florida
- Joy Williams, author
- Lakiesha Williams, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering
- Reva Williams, theoretical astrophysicist
- Robert E. Wilson, astrophysicist, academic, and author
- Elizabeth S. Wing, zooarchaeologist and Curator Emerita at the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Kate Vixon Wofford, educator and elected official
- Frank Bradshaw Wood, astronomer
- William Woodruff, British Historian of World History
- Donald E. Worcester, American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history
- Monique Worrell, former judge with Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
- Dapeng Wu, electrical engineer
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian of the Southern United States
- Clive Wynne, British-Australian ethologist
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- Janet K. Yamamoto, immunologist
- Kane S. Yee, Chinese-American electrical engineer and mathematician
- Richard Yost, scientist
- Linda J. Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Z
- Miriam Zach, musicologist
- Michael Zerner, physicist
- Robert Zieger, labor historian
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