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This list of University of Florida alumni includes current students, former students, and graduates of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Honorary degree recipients can be found on the List of University of Florida honorary degree recipients, and notable administration, faculty, and staff are found on the List of University of Florida faculty and administrators.
This category includes those persons who attended or graduated from the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, United States. For more information, please see List of University of Florida alumni and University of Florida .
This list of University of Florida Levin College of Law graduates includes notable recipients of one or more academic law degrees (LL.B., J.D., LL.M.) from the Levin College of Law, the law school of the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida. (For a list of notable alumni of the University of Florida's other academic divisions ...
Sebring graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) in 1928. [6] Edith B. Tigert: 1968 D.H.L. Edith Bristol Tigert was the wife of former University of Florida President John J. Tigert, and served as first lady of the University of Florida for nineteen years from 1928 to 1947. [5] Elvis Stahr, Jr. 1968 LL.D.
Boxer Johnny Joca won the NCAA national boxing championship in the 135-pound weight class in 1940. Joca was the first Florida Gators athlete, in any sport, to win an individual NCAA national championship. Phillip D. O'Connell: Boxing 1929–30 1930–31 Phil O'Connell was the captain of the University of Florida boxing team for two years.
The University of Florida Student Government is the governing body of students who attend the University of Florida, representing the university's nearly 60,000 [197] undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
In the 1950s, the University of Florida began enrolling women, and in 1955, the first woman graduated from the college with a master's degree in chemical engineering. In 1957, nuclear engineering was established as a department, and in 1959, the university's 10,000-watt nuclear training reactor became Florida's first critical reactor.
Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English at the University of Florida; V. 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