text: Charles Portis – author, best known for True Grit
  Lee Powell – actor (The Lone Ranger)
  Tyrone Power – actor (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
  Steven Pressfield – American author of historical fiction, non-fiction and screenplays including his 1995 novel The Legend of Bagger Vance and 2002 non-fiction book The War of Art
  Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, son of Lewis "Chesty" Puller
  Artimus Pyle – Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer
  Joe Pyne – 1960s conservative talk show host
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  C.J. Ramone (b. Christopher Joseph Ward) – musician, former member of The Ramones
  Dan Rather – Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist, commentator and former national evening news anchor
  Lawrence G. Rawl – CEO of Exxon (1988-1993)
  Alex Raymond – cartoonist
  Donald Regan – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff (Reagan administration)
  Buddy Rich – jazz drummer
  Rudy Reyes – actor and martial arts instructor (Generation Kill)
  Hari Rhodes – actor and author (Shock Corridor, Return to Peyton Place)
  Rob Riggle – actor/comedian (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
  Scott Ritter – former United Nations arms inspector, intelligence officer, outspoken opponent of the Bush administration's foreign policy
  Charles S. "Chuck" Robb – Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, married to Linda Bird Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson)