text: Thomas Gordon McLeod, governor of South Carolina (1923–1927)
  Costa M. Pleicones, associate justice, later chief justice, of the South Carolina Supreme Court since 2000
  Dennis W. Shedd, judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  Ellison D. Smith, former United States senator, South Carolina (1909–1945: 17th longest-serving senator in history)
  John G. Stabler, associate justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1926–1935); chief justice (1935–1940)
  Charles Albert Woods, associate justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1903–1913); judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1913–1925)
  Religion
  William H. Willimon, author, Duke University chaplain, minister, and retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church, North Alabama Conference
  Education
  William Preston Few, first and longest serving president of Duke University and the fifth and last president of its predecessor, Trinity College
  James Kirkland, second and longest-serving chancellor of Vanderbilt University
  James A. Knight, psychiatrist, theologian, and medical ethicist; first dean of the Texas A&M School of Medicine
  Religion
  William Wallace Duncan, bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
  Francis L. Garrett, chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy
  Marion J. Hatchett, a liturgical scholar in the Episcopal Church who helped to shape the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
  Albert C. Outler, theologian and philosopher