List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni

Smith would later lead a manufacturing enterprise in Dalton, Georgia and Crawford would head Birmingham, Alabama's large Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company.

Well-known American football athletes include former students Calvin Johnson, Daryl Smith, the late Demaryius Thomas, and Keith Brooking, former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher, and all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton, Pat Swilling, Billy Shaw, and Joe Guyon.

Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Javaris Crittenton, Thaddeus Young, Jarrett Jack, Luke Schenscher, Stephon Marbury, Derrick Favors, Iman Shumpert, Chris Bosh, and Travis Best.

Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown, Mark Teixeira, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Erskine Mayer, and Jay Payton.

1 in the world in 2001, Stewart Cink was the 2009 Open Championship winner, was ranked in the top ten, and Matt Kuchar won the U.S.

Georgia Tech 's first two graduates were Henry L. Smith (top row, center) and George G. Crawford (top row, far right).
G. Wayne Clough , former president of Georgia Tech
Sam Nunn , former U.S. Senator and CEO of the NTI
General Ray Davis
Major General Leonard Wood
Richard H. Truly , retired Vice Admiral, former head of NASA and GTRI
W. Jason Morgan , 2003 National Medal of Science recipient
Kenneth Lane , theoretical particle physicist
Gary S. May , Current President of the University of California Davis, and Former Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Jim Allchin , former executive at Microsoft
Jeff Foxworthy , comedian