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Academic administrators
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- 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
- Orland K. Armstrong , founded the University of Florida School of Journalism and former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Sharon Wright Austin , Director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Florida
- George Burgess , world-renowned shark expert; director of International Shark Attack File
- Roy C. Craven , founding director of the University Gallery and art professor
- David R. Colburn , professor of history and author
- 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
- Rudolf Kálmán , director at Center for Mathematical System Theory and mathematical system theorist, winner of IEEE Medal of Honor , and former graduate research professor
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jimmy Cheek , former professor and Chancellor of the University of Tennessee
- Robert G. Frank , former president of the University of New Mexico
- 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
- 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
- Leonard Cheng , current president of Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Provosts and Vice Presidents
- 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
- Gillian Small , current provost for Fairleigh Dickinson University
Deans
- 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 College of Architecture, current president of Florida Institute of Technology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- William Riffee , former dean of University of Florida College of Pharmacy
- 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
- 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
Distinguished Professors
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- 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
- 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
- Ravindra K. Ahuja , computer scientist
- Ronald Akers , criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology and law
- 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
- 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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- Stanley Ballard , physicist specializing in optics
- Aida Bamia , professor of Arabic language and literature
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Suzy Covey , comics scholar and former university librarian emerita
- Patricia Craddock , author and professor of English
- Harry Crews , novelist
- Florin Curta , Romanian historian, medievalist and archaeologist on Eastern Europe
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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
- Jack E. Davis , environmental history and sustainability studies professor
- Martha Ellen Davis , anthropologist and ethnomusicologist
- Kathleen A. Deagan , archaeologist
- 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
- Nils J. Diaz , former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- James Dickey , novelist
- 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
- 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
- William F. Enneking , orthopaedic oncologist
- Georg Essl , Austrian Computer Scientist and Musician
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- Albert Fathi , Egyptian-French mathematician
- Joe Feagin , sociologist and social theorist
- Mark Fenster , attorney and professor with the Levin College of Law
- Mark Flannery , economist
- Kevin Folta , professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida
- David J. Foulis , mathematician
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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
- Susan D. Gillespie , anthropologist and archaeologist
- Mark S. Gold , researcher and author
- Maureen Goodenow , scientist and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
- Malcolm Grant , former professor and current President of University College London
- 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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- R. M. Hare , English moral philosopher
- Mike Haridopolos , faculty member at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service
- Willis Harman , social scientist and futurist
- 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
- 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
- Aparna V. Huzurbazar , statistician
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- Lonnie Ingram , microbiologist and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and Society of Industrial Microbiology
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- 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
- Henry Kandrup , astrophysicist and professor at the University of Florida
- John Kaplan , photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Akito Y. Kawahara , American and Japanese entomologist, scientist, and advocate of nature education
- 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
- Karen Koch , plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida
- 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
- 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
- René Lemarchand , French political scientist
- Tracy R. Lewis , professor of economics
- Bernard J. Liska , food scientist
- William Logan , poet, critic, and scholar
- 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
- Fletcher Martin , painter
- William Clifford Massey , anthropologist
- 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
- 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
- John H. Moore , anthropologist and former Chair of the Anthropology Department
- Jacques Morcos , neurologist and fellow with the University of Florida
- Charles W. Morris , semiotician and philosopher
- Michael Moseley , anthropologist
- William Murrill , mycologist
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- Vasudha Narayanan , scholar of Hinduism at University of Florida and former President of the American Academy of Religion
- Charles Nelson , legal scholar and former U.S. Representative from Maine
- Wilmon Newell , entomologist
- Wayne Nicholson , biologist
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- Howard T. Odum , ecologist
- 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
- Harry Ostrer , geneticist
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- John Anderson Palmer , philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Florida and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
- Alfred Browning Parker , Modernist architect
- Karen F. Parker , sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence
- 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
- Padgett Powell , novelist
- 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
- George Alan Rekers , psychologist and ordained Southern Baptist minister
- David Reitze , professor of physics
- Mary Robison , short-story writer and novelist
- Yuli Rudyak , professor of mathematics
- Katheryn Russell-Brown , legal scholar
- Darrett B. Rutman , historian
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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
- Chih-Tang Sah , Professor of Physics, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ottón Solís , scholar of Latin American studies
- Alexander Stephan , specialist in German literature and area studies
- Evon Streetman , faculty with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
- Neil Sullivan , Professor of Physics
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- Bron Taylor , scholar and conservationist
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Colin Welford , Professor of Music, conductor
- John Daniel Wild , philosopher
- Hiram D. Williams , painter and professor of art at the University of Florida
- Joy Williams , author
- Lakiesha Williams , Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering
- Kate Vixon Wofford , educator and elected official
- William Woodruff , British Historian of World History
- Donald E. Worcester , American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown , historian of the Southern United States
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- Linda J. Young , Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
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- Miriam Zach , musicologist
- Michael Zerner , physicist
- Robert Zieger , labor historian