List of West Virginia University alumni

This list of West Virginia University alumni includes notable people from published sources that previously attended West Virginia University.

Emily Calandrelli , science communicator and aerospace engineer, on a reduced-gravity flight
Don Knotts , five-time Emmy Award -winning actor best known for his role as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show
Joe Alexander
Da'Sean Butler
Ashley Lawrence
Tarik Phillip
Bantz J. Craddock , former US European Command (USEUCOM), NATO 's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), and commanding officer of Allied Command Operations (ACO)
Katherine Johnson , a "human computer" whose calculations for NASA were critical to the first successful U.S. crewed spaceflight