manager
Topper Shutt – meteorologist
Bryan Smithson – professional basketball player
Stemage (Grant Henry) – guitarist and composer
Dwayne Sutton – professional basketball player
Patrick Tate – former professional soccer player
Roy A. Taylor – member of U.S. Congress
MaCio Teague – professional basketball player
Jethro Waters – filmmaker
Ty Wigginton – professional baseball player
Susana Žigante – professional soccer player
== Notable faculty and staff ==
=== Academics ===
Wiley Cash – author and writer in residence
Richard Chess – literature and language professor, director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Creative Writing Program.
Jane Fernandes – former provost and vice-chancellor
Grant Hardy – historian
Tommy Hayes – former faculty, author, and founder of the Great Smokies Writing Program
David Brendan Hopes – professor of literature
Elliot Mazer – audio engineer and record producer
Robert Moog – inventor of the Moog synthesizer and former research professor of music
Christopher Oakley – animator …
