John B. Floyd
1806–1863 American politician
Patri Friedman
born 1976 American libertarian activist and theorist of political economy
William Ballard Preston
1805–1862 American politician
WN William Frank Newton
1906–1954 American musician
Brandon Stokley
born 1976 American football wide receiver
Bob Roop
born 1947 American professional and amateur wrestler
Henry A. Edmundson
1814–1890 American politician and Confederate Army officer
Joseph F. Ware, Jr.
1969–2012 Flight Test Engineer, academic
Ron Dayne
born 1978 American football player
Michal Slawny Cababia
born 1983 Israeli politician
Jake Arians
born 1978 American football player
Mike Devlin
born 1969 American football player and coach
Virginia Allen Crockford
1918–2001 American educationist
Haug Kuenheim
born 1934 German journalist
Also called Blacksburg home
Eric Schmidt
born 1955 Software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
Miguel de Lara
born 1994 Mexican swimmer
Guy A. Sims
born 1961 African American comic book writer
John Egerton
1935–2013 American journalist from Georgia
Homer Hurst
1919–2011 American architecture academic
Joseph A. Ball
born 1947 American mathematician
Marc A. Edwards
born 1964 Civil engineer and academic researcher
Hara P. Misra
born 1940 American biochemist
Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan
1973–2007 Indonesian student
Rick Devens
born 1984 American reality television participant
James C. Baker
Soil and agronomy scientist
Lee Vinsel
born 1979 Professor
Michael J. Warren
American federal government official and management consultant
Polly Carder
born 1932 Biographer of George F. Root
Steven Dennison Smith
born 1968 Native American legal scholar (c. 1968-)
Suzanne Wones
American academic librarian
Weldon Amzy Brown
1911–1996 American historian
William John Dallas
born 1944 American physicist
William W. Lewis
American economist and public official