Bob Agee, 13th president, Oklahoma Baptist University;
John Arthur, professor of philosophy;
Richard A. Batey, New Testament scholar;
William Leroy Broun, fourth President of Auburn University;
Jesse Lee Cuninggim, Methodist clergyman; moved the Scarritt College to from Kansas City to Nashville as its President;
Merrimon Cuninggim, desegregated the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; later President of Salem College;
Antonio Gotto, Dean of Cornell University Weill Medical College;
Hoffman Franklin Fuller, professor-emeritus at Tulane University Law School, authority on tax law
Sheldon Hackney, President, University of Pennsylvania; President, Tulane ;University; ;Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
David Edwin Harrell, historian at Auburn University;
Alfred Hume, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 1924–1930 and 1932–1935;
Umphrey Lee, Dean of the School of Religion at Vanderbilt; President of Southern Methodist University;
Walter M. Lowrey, historian at Centenary College of Louisiana;
J. Bernard Machen, President, University of Utah (1997–2003); eleventh President, University of Florida (2003–present);