This list of University of Georgia people includes alumni, affiliates and current students of the University of Georgia. Honorary degree recipients are not included. Chief executives and presidents of the University of Georgia Alumni Arts, media and entertainment [[File:From Brownsville, Brooklyn to the Oval Office- Vidal Meets the President.webm|thumb|right|180px|Brandon Stanton, The New York Times Best Selling author and one of Time'''s "30 Under 30 People Changing The World" visits President Barack Obama at the White House ]] Business and industry Economics and finance Eugene Robert Black, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Eugene R. Black Sr. former president of the World Bank, chairman of the Brookings Institution, Special Adviser to the President on Southeast Asian Social and Economic Development, board member multiple corporations and foundations, honorary Doctor of Laws from Princeton University, Chair of the Peabody Award Board of Jurors Robert D. McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Bernard Ramsey, senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch Charles S. Sanford Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bankers Trust Educators Government and the law Media and journalism Medicine Military Ministry and religion Benjamin M. Palmer, American writer and theologian who was the first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, professor at Amherst College and Columbia Theological Seminary, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856–1902) George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, president of Wesleyan College and Emory University David Platt, pastor and author of the New York Times best seller RadicalScientific research Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor of Genetics at University of Georgia, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science Cornelia Bargmann, award winning neurobiologist, Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, British plant scientist and geneticist; post-doctoral fellow 1978–1980, now Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge Alfred Blalock, medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock Eugene T. Booth, Rhodes Scholar, nuclear physicist; member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; worked on the Manhattan Project James E. Boyd, physicist, mathematician, and founder of Scientific Atlanta, part of